On: Hermit Programmers Are Dead

[kuratkull]

Throughout reading this I had a creeping thought: "this person has no idea what they are talking about".

[Veen → kuratkull]

The writer is an academic, a PhD student, so they likely have little industry experience. Presumably extremely smart and capable in their domain, but not well informed about the industry beyond what they have read in history books about old-timey programmers.

[giglamesh → Veen]

Also pretty clearly not a native english speaker/writer (I'm hoping based on how substandard their english skills are). It may not be entirely fair, but the poor writing pre-disposes me to not give much merit to their arguments.

[flavius29663 → giglamesh]

Is your username a PUN that I am missing, what's the relation to Gilgamesh?

[snuser → kuratkull]

it's as if all of his opinions were developed reading marketing material

[rootusrootus → kuratkull]

And also "this line of thought is not at all original, people have been predicting it for years, decades even."

[commandlinefan → rootusrootus]

I've been reading it at least a couple of times a year since I started coding professionally in 1991.