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The supposed “10x engineer” may simply be someone stealing productivity from everyone around them.

You measure the output of one person while ignoring the cost they impose on their team.

If I generate 10 PRs in a day but three engineers now have to spend the next two days reviewing them, figuring out what I changed, correcting bad assumptions, debugging regressions and explaining why half of it needs to be redone, I haven’t become 10x more productive. I’ve just moved the work onto other people.

Worse, I’m consuming the time of the people who are usually the hardest to replace and whose attention is already scarce.

That’s why PR count, lines changed or features “completed” are terrible measures of productivity. You can make your own numbers look incredible while reducing the throughput of the entire team.

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FYI, your comment showed up as [dead] like you were banned until I vouched for it, but I don't see any reason for that. Just thought I'd let you know in case you want to follow up.
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> You can make your own numbers look incredible while reducing the throughput of the entire team.

Taken how some companies award promotions and bonus this is actually a double win. You not only improve your own numbers but also make this of your competition worse! /s

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