free roaming design patterns

I'm a self-taught programmer. I did not learn programming for the
purpose of making money, but for the joy of writing code, solving
problems and automating tasks. Thus, I belong in an entirely different
set of programmers, the lone wolves, those who never participated in a
project.

Differences go on: I wasn't involved with teaching institutions and
had adopted no teaching system. I studied only what made sense to me
at the time, programming languages, algorithms and data
structures, in a chaotic manner. The way I understand programming is
that I have a problem, and I need to find ways to automate it, or get
from point A to point B; how I'll do it is something that I figure out
naturally - I put no "meta" thought to it, as if it's obvious. As you
may have figured already, my coding style is chaotic as well; there's
little consistency to it, which is a kind thing to say, as others
would call it cryptic the least. In other words, my code is completely
personalized.

I never felt the need to study what is known as 'design pattern'. I
intrinsically know every design pattern there is on wikipedia (I was
curious enough to check). In fact, I may even not know it, but I will
certainly come up with it when the requirements are such.

Am I being elitist about it? Certainly. That's why the only programming
board I frequent is /prog/.

In business, people need structure to control how the employees do their work. Such structure assists in things such as consistancy and expectations. People also need names for these ideas. 'Design patterns' is the name for the idea that patterns can be found in the implementation/design of one or more software and that these patterns can be made generic to be reused in other software solutions.