By Liam Tung
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 of a business.
The idea of highly productive programmers – sometime referred to as ’10x programmers’ – is a contentious and long-running debate, stemming from a study in 1968 that found the best developers are about 10 times more productive than the worst.