It sounds like you have a very smart programmer who is a little antisocial and very bored. His value to you depends on how you structure his environment to mak

It sounds like you have a very smart programmer who is a little antisocial and very bored. His value to you depends on how you structure his environment to make doing a good job more fun to him than torturing his co-workers. There's a degree to which putting exceptional people with people who just do the job can cause both to resent the other.