I doubt it’s bots. To me, it always felt more like cosplay from attention seekers; a form of trolling that requires mass social media.

It could also be “journalist” looking for some conflicting commenters from which they can twist words and generate new content.

You really think someone would do that, just go on the internet and tell lies?

You ai bots aren’t fooling me!

A rockstar developer doesn’t churn out unmaintainable, by definition.

The number of people who think they are rockstar developers but clearly aren’t is probably close to the number of cover bands who see themselves as undiscovered rockstars.

I’ve worked with people like this, their best hope is to fail upwards into management.

The only way to know if you are competent coder is for other coders to tell you. If none are telling you, your imposter syndrome isn’t.

There are other signs as well but these aren’t taught in formal education. An example being the ability to recognize how your old code could be improved. The way requirements stack over time makes this a certainty in any product.

50/50 chance they believe you.

Autist 🙂‍↔️

Autest 🙂‍↕️

I agree.

One can’t claim to love programming while calling the act of writing code being a code monkey. Whatever they actually love about the process may not exist in the industry.

I would suggest they explore alternative roles and perhaps alternative industries. They sound like they are new to the industry so their ability to land a senior role is likely to lead to different disappointments.

The best way to do something, often isn’t the best way to implement something. That’s why this is a senior role. The author does not appear to understand this concept and will be horribly disappointed when their perfect architecture is ignored by the realities of development.

No, you made a statement. I asked a question. My question isn’t a troll since it has a clear yes or no answer.

An answer you’ve failed to provide.

No, jokes have structure. It could be sarcasm but it could as easily be trolling.

Are you doing that thing where you troll by saying something really stupid and wait for others to correct you?

No one can enter the vehicle because this is a collision. The vehicle automatically moves away from anyone that approaches it.

The bosses will figure it out when they never receive a working product.

And those juniors don’t realize they’ve set themselves up to be forever-juniors since they aren’t learning how to do the basics themselves.

How is that a niche api question? That’s a public api that is scraped up.

It’s also a terrible way to ask the question. It’s how a clueless newb asks questions. Anyone hoping to help needs to at least know: What are you attempting to use the end point for and What results are you receiving vs expecting?

Awesome analogy.

To extend it: the moderators made sure the label matched the beer’s flavor.

if it can’t reach deals with generative AI companies to pay for its data.

There’s your problem, Reddit, you think it’s your data.

It’s more complex than that.

In the real world we’re not all working on the same assignment…even if it feels like it sometimes.

Article ends with “I’m not a performance expert at all, but I do like systems and enjoy thinking about their holistic behavior.”

That’s the only take away. Author isn’t a subject matter expert but is going flap on about it anyway.

You would be wrong.

I’ve read the article a couple times now trying to understand why this resonates so hard with some people.

I have tried to bring up what I feel are valid points and the responses are not engaging with what I’ve discussed but acting like I lack the ability to understand.

I get that attacking me is easier than addressing my points; I have the social skills of a software engineer after all.

I like code because there is no arguing. It’s just math.

People on other hand are caught up in emotions and ego, creating anecdotes to fit their biases.

I can’t fix the tangled mess of the human mind, but I can fix the crazy spaghetti code those type of people create.

You at not point attempt to refute any of my points.

You want to feel attacked, nothing I can do about that.

I wasn’t dismissing you but I will now.

Whoever is “protecting” Tim should be replaced by Tim.

Tim doesn’t want to code, that’s fine. Not everyone is cut out to be an individual contributor.

But he is not a senior developer, he is a team lead or a team mentor. He has the wrong title.