[wayoutthere]

Furthermore, the lone "rockstar coder" is an antipattern. Very little development is done in a vacuum, and the best developers I know -- male or female -- are the ones who can bring other people along with them in technical discussions.

[seanmcdirmid]

It isn’t exactly an anti pattern, just rare; eg with Notch and Minecraft. Lone coders can create great masterpieces, but it is a very different kind of artifact than what a group could produce. Don’t count loners out from being productive members of society in any field.

Of course, most work requires a lot more collaboration, and CS departments could do more to help train up those skills.