I knew an <i>incredibly</i> gifted developer who was CTO of a company I joined as VP of Engineering. He was a genius level developer but didn&#x27;t believe that any of the normal rules of software development applied to him - so no backups of product source code (which of course he wrote all the complex bits), no revision control, no build process, deployments by RAID...<p>Just before I joined, the CEOs nerves had taken a bad hit when CTO had power cable to only laptop with source for product stretched out at ideal tripping height, he runs to get something, trips over cable, smashes laptop...<p>Mind you he destroyed my nerves as well... &lt;sigh&gt;<p>Edit: Prize to anyone who can guess how &quot;Deployment by RAID&quot; worked...