I was also giggling at that as well. Missing the forest through the trees. No, the guy would be doing the entire project. I've worked with "10x" programmers

I was also giggling at that as well. Missing the forest through the trees. No, the guy would be doing the entire project. I've worked with "10x" programmers before, exactly one to be exact. The sort of guy who would code to an obviously-wrong spec just to annoy you as a manager, but have the "correct" implementation done and waiting to commit the second you'd amend it. It was an interesting time, and we got a lot done very rapidly. If I had talked about scrum or anything like that'd he'd take one of the other 50 job offers he could get within 24 hours making double - he worked with me because I made his life as easy as possible while trying to give him interesting work. Of course it's not sustainable business-wise for a myriad of reasons. You can't staff a team with those people, but man was he nice to have as programmer #1 in a startup.