What a bunch of garbage. The article pivots from stating that the 10x developer doesn't exist to then implicitly accepting that they <i>do</i> exist and why you should avoid hiring them! That'd be like a rock band saying "nah, we don't need Eddie Van Halen for our guitarist. Joe here who just finished guitar boot camp is good enough." Yeah, right. That's not to say that rock star developers aren't often prima donnas and toxic to your culture - thus negating all their supposed advantages. That's true. It's also true that a lot of rock star developers don't come with this toxicity. But to use that to claim that the 10x developer doesn't exist is being dishonest.