This is a pretty unfair. He seems self-aware enough to know he probably shouldn't be releasing stuff to production. But there is a long way from "learning to code" to "releasing production code."

This is exactly what happened at my last company.

The president was a coder and always wanted to work on features that had a strict deadline for our clients. He would give us the code a few days before and we would have to break our backs to fix it.

He also refused to check anything into SVN.