In programming parlance this is the poor developer that has to come behind the CowboyCoder and clean up the CowboyCode, while surrounded by screaming management/marketing and other sundry hostiles.

This can either lead to the cavalry riding in to save the day, or conversely a ''Custer's Last Stand''.

In some respects the AnonymousCavalryman can be a CowboyCoder in his own right - with the added ability to quickly grok the CowboyCoder's source, and patch the gaping holes in it.

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I am the anonymous cavalryman (since I am both a programmer and an ex Cavalry Scout NCO).  -- AnonymousCavalryman