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I prefer the term Batman developer

He doesn't play well with others and usually he'll just do stuff his own way without telling anyone.

He's usually right and he's usually more effective than his sidekicks.

Some villains need Batman, but after a while he can work on more pressing issues and the sidekicks can handle the weaker villains.

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Sounds like the same destructive behaviour that is commonly referenced as the bad 10x developer.

Yeah, the obvious point is that Batman is a billionaire businessman who could pay his taxes and get Gotham to hire some decent police but instead of actually focusing on the structural problems that cause crime in Gotham, he runs around banging models and beating up street criminals.

The Batman comparison is a great example, because the criticisms of the 10x developer match exactly the problems with batman.

It's an apt analogy. A sociopath who refuses to work within a system, is accountable to nobody, and is arguably creates the very same villains that he is forced to battle.

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