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I don't like Martin Fowler. He is the archetype of the architect astronaut. The OG bullshit meister. I like LLMs for stuff I don't care about. Programming is n

I don't like Martin Fowler. He is the archetype of the architect astronaut. The OG bullshit meister. I like LLMs for stuff I don't care about. Programming is not one of them.

nnevatie 15d ago
Correct. The master BSer is afraid of being replaced by an even better BSer, so doesn’t like it.
dave_sid 15d ago
Didn’t he invent refactoring? Something that every developer in the world uses every day? Don’t think he’s a bullshitter.
- cake-rusk 15d ago
  No he did not. For some reason people think he did. See following article where he talks about the inventors of refactoring: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/EtymologyOfRefactoring.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://martinfowler.com/bliki/EtymologyOfRefactoring.html?u...
  - dave_sid 15d ago
    What do you mean some reason? He wrote the book Refactoring that caused everyone to start refactoring. That’s quite a big reason. He literally wrote the book on it.