The world would be a much less vibrant place if not for the obsessives among us who devote themselves religiously to their craft. Whether that be programming, writing, art, or otherwise.
I think blub was just trying to distinguish whether the person delivered more value per hour, or just more hours. The outcome may be the same, but the former sounds more like "10x" than the latter.
If you have someone who is so obsessed with programming that they have time for little else, the lack of social contact has the potential to turn that person into a problem later on. Case in point: Richard Stallman.
Inappropriate behavior may have been well tolerated in the patriarchal past, but in 2020 we are expected to do better and our institutions can ill tolerate the risks presented by asocial white men.
The world would be a much less vibrant place if not for the obsessives among us who devote themselves religiously to their craft. Whether that be programming, writing, art, or otherwise.