In addition to this, if you're a good bricklayer, you might do, at most, twice the work of a bad bricklayer. It's quite common for an excellent programmer (a hacker) to do more work than ten average programmers--and that's conservative. The difference is more apparent. My guess might be that you hear this complaint from good programmers, Barry?

Although, I can guarantee that everyone I've met can do at least FizzBuzz. We have average programmers, not downright bad ones.