Josh Ling @ Adopt Me!

I've worked with similar people but I think everyone has a place their suited to work in. That kind of person can be a great hire in a very small team where they are running the codebase, just you wouldn't want them at your fortune 500 trying to get them to care about Agile

I've worked in some small teams and I've never been in a team small enough that their problems weren't problems. Maybe if you have literally 3-4 people. But as soon as you scale to the point they need to work with others on a live consumer product, it's more bad than good imo

Yeah I'm talking about small small, like "1 programmer on backend, one on product, plus artists/product manager". i.e. startups. if your business is really small there's definitely a place for people who aren't great for team coding but do amazing solo work

Yeah, totally fair, those problems only become problems when such people brush against other people. Nobody to brush against if you have sole ownership of engineering lol

I think this becomes really clear in game jams. You see the big teams with 4 programmers and a designer and 2 artists normally don't even get far past the planning stage while one stupidly good all rounder just cleans up the whole jam on their own

I went from a team of 30 to a team of 2 and the freedom was so liberating at first. If I had an idea, I could do it, there were no stakeholders, I didn't need sign off or consensus. Felt like I was moving so fast. After 6 months I got sick of it + struggled to do bigger projects