[eXpl0it3r]

I much rather have no 10x engineer on my team, but instead engineers who do just a bit more than the bare minimum.

For example, who don't just test their single use case, but check if it breaks anything around it. Or who invest just a tiny bit more time to actually write down what their bug analysis has yielded. Or who update the documentation after an interface change. Or who write solution designs to think about the approach, before hacking some ugly mess. Or who check with the PO or user if the chosen approach/design is what they expected. Or who ...

In my experience having devs who do more than the bare minimum is way more productive for most day-to-day business. Maybe there's room for a powerhouse in cases, where you have to drastically restructure a code base and quickly create some PoC.

[packetlost]

Every business I've ever been at had a "strike team" of the 2x+ engineers (in the M sense) that didn't typically do maintenance work, they unfucked messes or rescued projects. It seemed pretty effective from my standpoint.