I'm kind of in that boat as a "reckless developer". I come in and write little tools to help people workflows, automate something that was a manual process or a shell script to get the job done instead of doing it by hand. Some of these scripts can grow into big projects over time depending on if I'm the end user or someone else. No one asks me to make these things, I just see a issue to resolve and I resolve it. I like to call my self a hacker really since it makes sense in the old terminology of what I do with the many hats that i wear.