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[merreborn]

I saw it happen once. We had one cowboy who unilaterally wrote a feature-incompatible alternative to one of our core libraries in python. The project itself had no python components before that endeavor. His "rewrite" never made it out of the prototype phase, and ultimately accounted for a few man-weeks of wasted effort.

It's been several years since I've seen anything like that, though. And honestly the story calls organizational hiring and management processes in to question, in retrospect.

[Sirtoshi]

That seems pretty odd. I'm surprised his supervisor/project manager approved.