[octocode]

Probably because HN is mostly frequented by programmers, and not managers or "startup entrepreneurs" who throw around terms like "10x programmer" as if it's a thing that actually exists, and not a harmful concept that at best promotes gatekeeping and at worst promotes egotists who believe that their sloppy shortcuts won't have to be cleaned up by everyone else when they inevitably fail.

[fouc]

I thought I originally heard about the 10x programmer thing from some of Chuck Moore's talks on Forth. So I went to re-find this article.

But as it turns out he was arguing against 10x complexity and advocating avoiding abstractions with "1x" coding.

http://www.ultratechnology.com/1xforth.htm