Some years ago, Google published a paper whose conclusion was that high-trust teams were the most productive - not the ones with the 10x developers. This obsession with the "great man" theory as applies to software is harmful to software engineering.
Computers are all about synergy and understanding the hardware you're working with. No one algorithm will work optimally on every chip. One of the harder problems is in. Fact getting optimal hardware use by coordinating multiple threads, chips, or entire clusters to work on the same problem together.
It's a shame some can't apply such metaphors tk humans and think "no, sure, there are single processors thst outperform entire distributed networks" we're different".
