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So you're saying that 10x developers definitely exist, it's just a disappointing state of affairs.

Like how the Turing Test was rendered obsolete because online comments (e.g. Youtube) became so bad, the bar to writing a bot that passed as one of them was lowered dramatically.



Lol, I didn't know about the Turing Test state. Hilarious perspective.


Maybe all these "I'm \d+ years old, and I like this song" before each old* song were written by bots. This would explain a lot.

*old song, according to Youtube comments is every song recorded before 2016 AD.




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