Comment by troupo
1 month ago
It's a hillarious attempt to save face.
"Separate opinions of professionals" etc.
Here's Ryan Dahl, cofounder of Deno, creator of Node.js tweeting today:
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This has been said a thousand times before, but allow me to add my own voice: the era of humans writing code is over. Disturbing for those of us who identify as SWEs, but no less true. That's not to say SWEs don't have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it.
https://x.com/rough__sea/status/2013280952370573666
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Professional enough for you?
They have everything to gain by saying those things. It doesn’t even need to be true. All the benefits arrive at the point of tweeting.
If it turns out to be not true then they don’t lose anything.
So we are in a state where people can just say things all the time. Worse, they _have_ to say. To them, Not saying anything is just as bad as being directly against the hype. Zero accountability.
What does he have to gain? This is Deno: https://deno.com
Yes, my point is that industry professionals are re-calibrating based on the last year of agentic coding advancements, and that this is different from hype men on YouTube from 1-2 years ago claiming that they don't have to write code anymore.
Congratulations, now you're starting to understand! :)
What is incorrect or bad about his statement?