Spot on Kevin.. I work with a guy like that who believes he's awesome because he can cobble together an inefficient Frankenstein. When you try to get him to explain why he's doing very inefficient operations like reloading 12 million records among 3 database tables EVERY DAY he talks in circles throwing out buzzwords wrongly but never really answering the question. I've gotten to the point that I ask only yes or no questions and when he goes on his verbal walkabout circling nothing. When he's done talking I simply ask 'Does that mean yes or no'.
Good developers can think about problems and find a simple solution within the current constraints; bad developers overly obfuscate everything they do out of fear that we'll find out what we already know.