I somehow do not understand what the article is really aiming at, but what I found interesting:
" the subculture of the compulsive programmer, whose ethics prescribe that one silly idea and a
month of frantic coding should suffice to make him a life-long millionaire"
I am suprised that this was a thing in 1988. Can somebody enlighten me what this is refering to? (I mean nowadays it is obvious) but was there the software startup culture in th e 80s?
It certainly matches early Atari, and there were lots of microcomputer game developers in the 80s who managed it. They were smaller than startups - often just the single programmer and someone helping them duplicate casette tapes.
