alt Hacker NewsUnlike Linus, Jeff Dean, DHH, John Carmack, Guido van Rossum? I really want to know who you think writes "100% of the software that people actually use and actually keeps the real world running"
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Have any of those people (excluding DHH) said anything even half as ridiculous as "I'm the general to my agentic army now"? Or are they adults using tools where they make sense and avoiding them where they don't?
If you think style guides don't matter anymore, I encourage you to submit patches to the people on your list whose credibility you're borrowing, and see if they agree. Tell Linus to delete https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-style.html because it doesn't matter because we have AI now. Or ask GvR if the current Python maintainers should deprecate https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/, since agents don't need it.
Hmm, one of those is not like the others...
Linus doesn't even do much programming by his own admission. He's a release manager.