>I'm trying to convince you that a 10x disparity in developer productivity is highly plausible, not because of rare, mythical creatures who are improbably fast, but because of disappointingly common creatures who are laughably slow.

I dont think anyone doubts that 10x engineers exist.

Imagine an aspergers programmer who types 200 words per minute with 20 years experience programming high quality code.

vs

The brand new grad who doesnt like tech, but did IT as a second career because it pays well, still hunts and pecks while looking to type. Who has only ever made 1 program before in college, but it didnt work and he failed that part of the class. Who while completing the test will be playing facebook mini games.

Of course there's going to be a disparity in performance and we say that's 10x.

>We all work remotely. My colleagues could achieve similar levels of output by skiving off for seven hours a day and only actually working for one. But I don't think that's happening. I think they are, to the extent they are capable of, doing the best they can.

Definitely wrong. I've worked for MSPs. The vast majority of people across all industries are doing as little as possible all the time.

The 40 hour work week literally doesnt need to exist, it could be a 5 hour work week. The people who legitimately work 40 hours should just have 8 jobs at 5 hours each for 8x the pay.