[Jolter]

A ”lone wolf” with a manager is a contradiction in terms.

[hogehoge51]

you need to think in a different plane of isolation. i would say the pure machiavellian manager is a lone wolf in that the relationships hold no weight as interpersonal relationships, only as functional relationships - no different to how you would manage and integrate code.

[Jolter]

It’s clear that the discussion has stretched the metaphor of wolves far beyond its breaking point.

The point was that developers (or indeed people in general) do not work the way wolves do, and I’m not reading great arguments to the contrary.