> think he's god's gift to programming and everyone whose work he disagrees with are losers

If he thinks like that (I don’t know him), he needs to limit the scope of what he works on to projects he can accomplish completely on his own.

The thing is though is that he is a ridiculously good programmer, and accomplishes more on his own than most programmers do with a team, he is insanely good.

Does this mean everything he does or says is right? absolutely not, sometimes its myopic and tunnel-vision induced with a smidgen of good points hidden within. Does he come across as 'off' to some people? a slight god-complex? is he likely hardcore autistic and miss practically all social niceties? absolutely, obviously unverifiable, true.

He should have gone into Academia (not that he would have excelled at the 'school' side of it), and he still could, because I am sure in the future he will be an excellent eccentric and transformative professor or researcher, if he wasn't so caught up in the rat-race libertarian capitalistic technology scene.

With all that said, even though we align on many things here, I don't think he or myself could stand being in a room with each other for anything more than a few minutes.