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oh, first time I'm hearing this sentiment against Yegge. Not a specific fan of him but curious: do you have memories / link to similar BS-like statements from t

• WesolyKubeczek 2y ago
  Just read his blog post titled "the death of junior programmer" or something like that. Be sure to not have eaten lunch prior to that; there's so much gatekeeping of the bad kind that it's quite vomit-inducing.
  • dpritchett 2y ago
    I’d been a huge fan of his for a solid decade, but that post was probably the last one of his I’ll ever read.
  • BaculumMeumEst 2y ago
    Really? I thought the content was interesting and it aligned with a lot of my thoughts. The end has a lot of practical advice- any junior who follows will probably be extremely successful. To that end, I think the title is a little clickbaity. I prefer the half glass full view - juniors have more access to rapidly learn and improve than they have ever had before. They can blow past the sea of mediocre seniors who don't bother to keep up.
    • conartist6 2y ago
      The problem is that it's really hard to learn from AI. You can pay it to think for you, but that way you won't learn much.