There has recently been a lot of talk about 10x engineers. It's partly an observation of how popular products and big corporations are often build in short breakthrough moments and a lot of time and people with slow and incremental progress.

I have also no doubt that there is a retrospect-justification to it to justify the insane salaries of very few engineers at faang companies.

Our boi sama picked up a subtone of these tweets that consists of simple envy. I find that incredibly funny because the exsistence of 100x engineers meaning a few dozen geniuses on earth each generation is faaaar less controversial and more obvious than calling the bulk of San Fransisco senior engineers "10x".