Comment by necovek
5 years ago
Great, thanks for the detailed clarification — I wasn't aware of the book reference: it was my impression that everybody compares to an "average engineer" when talking about 10x, so perhaps it has entered "common knowledge" as a misinterpretation (or maybe it's just my misinterpretation, which is most likely).
It’s a very, very common misinterpretation. People see the number 10× and immediately go to the straw–man of the mythical average programmer.