I knew a very smart guy with an attitude like that. He decided to run the electric wiring for an artist's co-op he made out of surplus shipping containers. When the city inspectors eventually popped by for a surprise visit, it was so far from code compliant that they pulled his electric meter on the spot.
Being very smart, he was sure he was in the right, so I hear he fought with the city for years over it, in the meantime layering on his home-grown solar and biomass gasification generator. I'm not sure if he ever got back in compliance.
I would encourage anybody going this route to have early discussions with a licensed electrician. A lot of code compliance stuff is non-obvious. It's what you get when you start with smart people and then add a hundred years of experience.
Hopefully you are reading and learning from the same place licensed electricians are learning from. Sounds like this guy didn't go to the right sources.
Which, I should add, is true of most professions, including software development. If a non-developer jumped in to make an app, it would be miraculous if the app and the code base were up to the standards of a seasoned app developer.
Being very smart, he was sure he was in the right, so I hear he fought with the city for years over it, in the meantime layering on his home-grown solar and biomass gasification generator. I'm not sure if he ever got back in compliance.
I would encourage anybody going this route to have early discussions with a licensed electrician. A lot of code compliance stuff is non-obvious. It's what you get when you start with smart people and then add a hundred years of experience.