First off there are the net negative producing programmers, you can't say the good programmers are 10x the productivity of those guys, because that would make them 10x worse, which is incorrect.
Second off, I think the variation between programmers can be much bigger than 10x, easily 50x or more. Of course the 1x programmers really don't like this idea, because their egos cannot handle the concept of someone else being that much better than they are.
50x? Really? That means they achieve in a week what the 1x programmers achieve in a year. I'd say its more likely they are infinitely more productive (as in produce things the 1x programmers could never produce), but those kinds of projects are rather uncommon.
First off there are the net negative producing programmers, you can't say the good programmers are 10x the productivity of those guys, because that would make them 10x worse, which is incorrect.
Second off, I think the variation between programmers can be much bigger than 10x, easily 50x or more. Of course the 1x programmers really don't like this idea, because their egos cannot handle the concept of someone else being that much better than they are.