That tweet storm is a joke. But one thing that hasn't been mentioned yet in this conversation is Brook's Law en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
I'm extrapolating a bit, but there are certainly diminishing returns when adding developers to a project. In other words, the 1st developer on any project is likely to be 10x more "productive" than the 101st (if we measure productivity in features shipped).
I'd be happy to explain this in more detail, if folks are curious. But my point is that the "10x engineer" may have been first imagined by someone who observed a tiny team crank out an incredible MVP in a short period of time. Comparing that team to a huge, stodgy corporation, and failing to recognize the cost of communication overhead and bureaucracy common on enormous teams, the observer might have come to the conclusion that the small, agile team was made up of "10x engineers".
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That tweet storm is a joke. But one thing that hasn't been mentioned yet in this conversation is Brook's Law en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
I'm extrapolating a bit, but there are certainly diminishing returns when adding developers to a project. In other words, the 1st developer on any project is likely to be 10x more "productive" than the 101st (if we measure productivity in features shipped).
I'd be happy to explain this in more detail, if folks are curious. But my point is that the "10x engineer" may have been first imagined by someone who observed a tiny team crank out an incredible MVP in a short period of time. Comparing that team to a huge, stodgy corporation, and failing to recognize the cost of communication overhead and bureaucracy common on enormous teams, the observer might have come to the conclusion that the small, agile team was made up of "10x engineers".