I worked at a place where the chief architect was exactly Dave. Our core app was a pile of crap he had written that routinely got gummed up and he heroically "f

I worked at a place where the chief architect was exactly Dave. Our core app was a pile of crap he had written that routinely got gummed up and he heroically "fixed it" and all the execs raved about him. The poor sucks who supported the app (and me as well) knew it was because the app leaked like a sieve but was fixable, but he wouldn't allow it because then he would have to admit it was his fault.