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I've seen it too. It's a thing.

Didn't like the person and they were anti-social to a great degree. The company treated him like a diva and he was I guess. But he could go into his office, shut the door, and the next day we'd have some working component to the larger system largely coded.

So you can't argue he wasn't a 10x coder. But a 0.1x communicator.




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