Absolute spot on! It must be the first time I hear from the software director this understanding of pseudo-high-performance developers. We had one on the team,

Absolute spot on! It must be the first time I hear from the software director this understanding of pseudo-high-performance developers. We had one on the team, at some point of his ascent to the summits of the glory, he even refused to fix the trunk he broke by his commit: it would be taking him too much of his precious time, and other's time was of course plenty and cheaper. Though I would move 'absence of interrupts' and 'private spaces' higher up on the list. This is also something few software managers truly understand.