A sharp and experienced programmer who creates program code either many times faster than the average programmer or with much greater sophistication. Of course, the code must be bug- free or almost ...

A new study sets out to debunk the idea that an organization can boost productivity by hiring programmers who are so much more productive than others that they can single-handedly determine the fate ...

In software development, there's an almost mythical concept called the “10X developer,” meaning a software engineer who's such a high performer that she or he is perfectly capable of doing the work of ...

The key to becoming a fabled 10x programmer, according to Trisha Gee, developer advocate at software firm JetBrains, is to practice pair programming, but with a twist. If you can only read one tech ...

Rock star. Ninja. Genius. In the world of tech, there’s a longstanding cultural mythos around the software developer who is not merely good but possessed of an Olympic brilliance and productivity.