I think you misunderstood Jorda. They never said the “best possible” engineer is a 2x, nor did they imply it; they were talking about what they had observed in their own career. And there’s no indication that they failed to understand that a 2x who uses ChatGPT to double their productivity becomes a 4x relative to the pre-GPT average. This makes the rest of the section read as strawman bashing; if it isn’t, it deserves a better illustrative example IMO.
I think you misunderstood Jorda. They never said the “best possible” engineer is a 2x, nor did they imply it; they were talking about what they had observed in their own career. And there’s no indication that they failed to understand that a 2x who uses ChatGPT to double their productivity becomes a 4x relative to the pre-GPT average. This makes the rest of the section read as strawman bashing; if it isn’t, it deserves a better illustrative example IMO.