Comment by shermantanktop
1 day ago
Yegge is just running arbitrage on an information gap.
It's the same chasm that all the AI vendors are exploiting: the gap between people who have some idea what is going on and the vast mass of people who don't but are addicted to excitement or fear of the future.
Yegge is being fake-playful about it but if you have read any of his other writing, this tracks. None of it is to be taken very seriously because he values provocation and mischief a little too highly, but bits of it have some ideas worth thinking about.
I wonder if he's being paid.
I detected a noticeable uptick in posts on reddit bragging AI coding in the last month which fit the pattern of other opinion shaping astroturfing projects ive seen before.
If Claude came to me with a bundle of cash and tokens to encourage me to keep the AI coding hype train going I'd also go heavy on the excitability, experimental attitude, humor and irreverence.
I'd also leave a mountain of disclaimers to help protect future me's reputation.
He got a cool 50k from some memecoin for this