Tell me more ×  I have found this article in several posts on
SO. I find myself falling into the 6th archetype; the
"Theoretician".  It defines the "Theoretician" as:  The
Theoretician knows everything there is to know about
programming. He or she can spend four hours lecturing about the
history of an obscure programming language or providing a proof
of how the code you wrote is less than perfectly optimal and may
take an extra three nanoseconds to run. The problem is, The
Theoretician does not know a thing about software development.
When The Theoretician writes code, it is so “elegant” that mere
mortals cannot make sense of it. His or her favorite technique
is recursion, and every block of code is tweaked to the max, at
the expense of timeliness and readability.  The Theoretician is
also easily distracted. A simple task that should take an hour
takes Theoreticians three months, since they decide that the
existing tools are not sufficient and they must build new tools
to build new libraries to build a whole