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> people whose knowledge of esoteric patterns and language features was their whole identity I came across too many of those people in my career and I can't sa
by wiether 23d ago
> people whose knowledge of esoteric patterns and language features was their whole identity
I came across too many of those people in my career and I can't say I'm sad that LLM are taking this away from them.
The worst were the ones acting as gatekeepers during hiring process. You could have built S3 and they'd still look down on you because you didn't knew about some weird feature in Java.
- enraged_camel 23d ago>> You could have built S3 and they'd still look down on you because you didn't knew about some weird feature in Java. Max Howell, creator of Homebrew, was famously rejected from Google for not being able to invert a binary tree on a whiteboard.
- Freedom2 23d agoI remember running into a lot of those kind of folk here on HN, and unsurprisingly, a large portion of them are the biggest LLM detractors.