I mean, they were never really that great. People tolerated them when we didn’t have good ways of managing technology, but the archetype of the hermit programme

I mean, they were never really that great. People tolerated them when we didn’t have good ways of managing technology, but the archetype of the hermit programmer has been confined to academia for decades. Development practices have focused on collaboration, pair programming and code reviews for a long time now. Concur with the large number of commenters saying this guy seems to have limited experience with which to judge the scale of the problem.