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- The 10x programmer myth describes a programmer who can produce ten times the output of an average professional programmer.
- Programming is a design discipline, not linear, so experience and skills combine multiplicatively to boost productivity.
- Key qualities for high productivity include: bare programming abilities, experience for pattern matching, focus, design sacrifice, simplicity, avoiding perfectionism, theoretical knowledge, low-level machine understanding, and debugging skills.
- Simplicity is achieved through design sacrifices and avoiding complexity, often by eliminating non-essential features.
- Opportunistic programming prioritizes features with maximum user impact and minimal effort.