IRC usually proves technical competence. Business-sense is a whole different skill set. FWIW, my problem with very competent programmers has been that they told

IRC usually proves technical competence. Business-sense is a whole different skill set. FWIW, my problem with very competent programmers has been that they told me what I should be doing, instead of what I want done: the former is a technical decision that the two of us could have made in a mutual agreement after a brief discussion, the second is something handed down to me by the people signing my paycheck. Do what you're asked to do, not what you aught to do.