Programmer Humor

but only for people who are willing to adjust their workflows and guide it to give good quality output

... and competent enough to actually evaluate the output properly.

Instead they spend a lot of money to push the fairy tale how anyone can now code without having a clue.

Why not both? Both is good

I agree on their usefulness but as long as you don't use local and open LLMs you are unfortunately part of the ecosystem that does the damage. Luckily open models are catching on and hopefully some reliable companies take up on this business model.

I'd add TS to the dumpster fire. It's a gilded pile of poop

Zed is actually a pretty good editor IMO. Miles ahead of Code at least

Linus is just some guy with good programming skills

I somewhat agree. Most celebrated personalities in tech aren't programming geniuses - they were in the right area at the right time and had some luck. Zuckerberg is a good example.

I think kernel maintainers and rendering engines (browsers and others) have a higher base skill level. Like some web developers are clever and some are stupid, but I don't think there are stupid kernel maintainers.

The thing with Linus is that he's been involved, and at the pointy end, for decades. You or I may not agree with him on every issue, but you can acknowledge that he has experience and he has connections.

Upvoting because I disagree with every word of what you wrote.

That information about text editors is out of date - we now have Zed. Just ignore the "AI integration" bs, it's entirely optional

I like Nano :)

VSCode is like the worst fauxpen source ever.

If a browser does not support unlock origin it is worthless. So Firefox wins by all opponents willfully exiting the race

I dont think that's an unpopular opinion