> You’re locally a 10x engineer because you wrote most of the code, so you’re naturally going to be a lot more effective than the other people on your team. This probably won’t translate to new projects.
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> If you joined a new project where someone else had written 80% of it, it would take you years to catch up to their productivity; if they were controlling and continued to write 80% of everything, it would be impossible.
So much this! I read the OP and thought that the dev should get out more. I'm 10x as productive on systems I built myself vs systems other people built.
That's (according to my rough estimates) one developer (me) being 10x better developer than the next developer (also me!).
Switch to an established team and see how long it takes you to get to your self-reported 23x developer status.
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> If you joined a new project where someone else had written 80% of it, it would take you years to catch up to their productivity; if they were controlling and continued to write 80% of everything, it would be impossible.
So much this! I read the OP and thought that the dev should get out more. I'm 10x as productive on systems I built myself vs systems other people built.
That's (according to my rough estimates) one developer (me) being 10x better developer than the next developer (also me!).
Switch to an established team and see how long it takes you to get to your self-reported 23x developer status.