I used to be a 10x developer when I was younger. I would produce huge amounts of bug free, high quality code at a rate much higher than my peers.
I'm older now. I produce about as much functionality as my peers, and at comparable time, but I do so at about 1/10 to 1/100 of the code length.
I haven't tried going back to crunching code at the 10x rate, and I'm not sure I can - I spend the majority of my time now figuring how to NOT write any code (or very little), and still achieve my goals. In a way, I'm still a 10x programmers - 10 times less code, works as well, and is usually much more future proof.
If I wasn't coding for my own startup, that might have hurt my compensation, but I think in the long run, I'm doing as good or better job than I did 15 years ago, even though I'm not faster than my peers these days.
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I used to be a 10x developer when I was younger. I would produce huge amounts of bug free, high quality code at a rate much higher than my peers.
I'm older now. I produce about as much functionality as my peers, and at comparable time, but I do so at about 1/10 to 1/100 of the code length.
I haven't tried going back to crunching code at the 10x rate, and I'm not sure I can - I spend the majority of my time now figuring how to NOT write any code (or very little), and still achieve my goals. In a way, I'm still a 10x programmers - 10 times less code, works as well, and is usually much more future proof.
If I wasn't coding for my own startup, that might have hurt my compensation, but I think in the long run, I'm doing as good or better job than I did 15 years ago, even though I'm not faster than my peers these days.