To be fair, even if I appreciate Beck, some people do get too famous and start to inhabit a space that is far removed from the average company. Many of these guys tend to give out advice that is applicable to a handful of top earning companies but not the rest.

Doesn't this back up the point? From his wiki it seems like he is mostly famous as a programming influencer, not as a programmer.

So? His bio is literally one latest fad after the other. Now he joins the "AI" fad, what a surprise.