alt Hacker NewsWhat does it tell you that programmers with the credibility of antirez - and who do not have an AI product to sell you - are writing things like this even when they know a lot of people aren't going to like reading them?
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Just because he doesn't have an AI product to sell doesn't mean he doesn't have a bias. For all we know, he's heavily invested in AI companies.
We have to abandon the appeal to authority and take the argument on its merits, which honestly, we should be doing regardless.
People higher up the ladder aren't selling anything but they also have to not worry about losing jobs. We are worried that execs are going to see the advances and quickly clear the benches, might not be true but every programmer believing they have become a 10x programmer pushes us more into that reality.
That is an argument to authority. There is a large enough segment of folks who like to be confirmed in either direction. Doesn't make the argument itself correct or incorrect. Time will tell though.
Nothing at all, it just sounds like a desperate post on LinkedIn riding the slight glimmer of hope it will help them land their next position.
Being famous doesn't mean that they're right about everything, e.g. Einstein and "God does not play dice with the universe".
That LLMs advocates are resorting to the appeal to authority fallacy isn't a good look for them either.
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What it tells me is that humans are fallible, and that being a competent programmer has no correlation with having strong mental defenses against the brainrot that typifies the modern terminally-online internet user.
I leverage LLMs where it makes sense for me to do so, but let's dispense with this FOMO silliness. People who choose not to aren't missing out on anything, any more than people who choose to use stock Vim rather than VSCode aren't missing out on anything.