I'm anywhere from a 0.1x developer to a 10x developer, depending on circumstances. Talent comes and experience enters into it, although I think I'm far from the best at anything. The rest is just being allowed to actually get things done.
I've worked in teams that, as a whole, were significantly less productive than I am working alone, even though I was very much part of the team.
Not that any of the developers on the team was bad or anything. It's just we spent 20% of the time in meetings, 30% of the time debugging broken jenkins pipelines and kubernetes jobs, 10% of the time rolling back changes because stakeholders changed their mind, 25% of the time fixing the bugs introduced by rolling back the changes, 5% of the time having coffee and playing pingpong, 10% of the time agreeing on the design, 7% of the time in standups and other agile rigmarole, and the remaining 3% of the time developing the system.
