Discussion on question by John Gopher Boy: How to handle an unpopular intern who upstages me?

I think this is the intern, writing from a different perspective, who THINKS he did all these things, and is now trying to garner support for himself on the internet. He justifies goofing off because it's so apparent to himself that he is a "genius". If this "Genius" intern was as good as he pupports to be, he'd already have a job a long time ago, and wouldn't need an internship.

Assuming this is not a troll, I'd be really interested in knowing what kind of company decides to both a) allocate a multi-year project (meaning it's important), and then b) staff exactly one developer on it (meaning it's not important). Like, what's going on there?

Most unbelievable thing a is dev knowing when their project is 75% done.

The premise is absolutely possible, I once did something similar to myself. I spent 9 months implementing a custom system in Scala to evaluate data for a chapter in my thesis, and amidst the many levels of abstraction, I had not even done half of what I needed. Then I set away the sophisticated OO code that attempted to match the semantic of my project, started writing R code, and had the evaluation completely done in 10 days. When a sole developer works on a project, they can get tangled up in inventing a buldozer when they only need a 10 cm hole. So please don't close the question.

@dquijada I disagree. I once picked up the code from a "nearly finished, honest" scientific computing app which somebody had been working on for 2 years before he left the company. The thing was such a mess, and used such inappropriate algorithms, that I just started again and had a beta version (which the customers immediately started using as a production version!) done in a week. And it ran 1000 times faster (literally, not metaphorically) than the first attempt on some real world problems, as well.

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because there is no way the premise of this question is rooted in reality (aka trolling).

Come on, my creative writing pieces are more believable than this.