The Loneliness of a 10x Developer 10 by 100011_100001 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm a 10x developer and I hate it. If you consider yourself a "top" developer I would appreciate your perspective. It didn't start this way. I became a Jr Dev at 33 years old, people consistently assumed I was more experienced than I was. I'm not sure if it was my life experience or my relentless pursuit of self-improvement but I have been continuously improving my capabilities. Around the time I turned 38 years old I felt competent. My code started to become defect proof. The drawback was it took me an extra 20% more time to complete. The Product Owner used to say to me, "I know it will take you an extra two days to a week to complete something, but then I never have to worry about it again". So, solid code, but kind of slow in comparison. I'm now 42 years old, my code continues to have minimal amount of defects, but I complete stories fast, and I'm not working...