> Professional talent does vary, but there is not a shred of evidence that the best professional developers are an order of magnitude more productive than median developers at any timescale, much less on a meaningful timescale such as that of a product release cycle. There is abundant evidence that this is not the case

http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2011/12/09/forbes-is-wrong-...

> The Myth of the Rockstar Programmer

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheMythOfTheRockstarProgrammer...