[djeastm]

He seems to be a good coder with poor judgment. But I think it would be wiser to manage him better than to fire him so long as he recognizes what he did was wrong. I'm a bit of a softie for the clueless, brilliant coders, though.

[jofzar]

My bet is that he was reprimanded for this and then didn't back down, hes even in the comments here now arguing about it

[Stevvo]

He doesn't recognize it. He claims in the post he was fired because certain leaders were afraid of being disrupted.

[pydry]

This seems pretty plausible. This tool probably did threaten some product line or other with cannibalisation.

[sleepybrett]

it makes them look lazy for not doing it already, this tool was sorely needed.

[IncreasePosts]

Is it plausible?

Imagine any leader that is not sundar trying to get this person fired. At some point, that leader would need to justify to either their leader, or a similarly leveled peer why they budgeted x SWE-years(where x is probably > 25) for a project that took this person far less than 1 SWE-year.