A -10x engineer wouldn't be capable of creating anything from scratch, even if they did they would likely have issues getting buy in from the wider organization for said code to go into production. They would spend their days engaged in the wonton destruction of previously stable applications, wasting the time of competent devs with incessant questions and ultimately creating a net loss in wider organizational output.

>A -10x engineer wouldn't be capable of creating anything from scratch, even if they did they would likely have issues getting buy in from the wider organization for said code to go into production

I have a two data points from a -10x engineer that say otherwise. They definitely do start things. The rest of us spend a decade making their mess a stable, workable system.

I've seen -10 x developers put in management positions. The company is now going under for obvious reasons.

I read this like 10 days ago and didn't catch the joke. Well played.

That's why we invented pair programming. As long as you have an even number of them, you are fine :)