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The Death of Software Development
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this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2026
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The authors of these articles always make it crystal clear how inexperienced they are.
Whoa you don’t say?! We’ve only been doing that for thirty years now. Glad you finally noticed.
You know what the major problem has been for the past couple decades of my programming career? Hint: it wasn’t writing the code.
Leave it to a finance bro to think everything he does is “DiSrUpTiNg.” What year is it?
Where did you get the impression that the author is an inexperienced developer and finance bro? The introduces himself as someone who started programming from the age of eleven.
I started walking 33 years ago, I am by no mean an expert in walking.
This part
Maybe just me, but that screamed “finance bro” to me. “Since moving on from that world.”
The inexperience in professional programming is indicated by the entire article. There’s a huge difference between a hobbyist who starts at 11 and a professional developer. Real professional developers don’t start with “I started when I was 11.” I started when I was 15, 20 years before the author did. Who cares?
His LinkedIn shows little experience in professional development. Just a bunch of “CTO” positions.
He dropped out of university in 2018 after eight years.
I’ve also never heard anyone experienced say “I checked the code. It’s good.” Because it’s embarrassing. And he put it in writing. “LGTM 👍” Insightful.
Yeah when I see a slew of Founder and csuite positions I clock as a grifter rather than a competent technologist.
He also seems to refer to himself by the title BDFL (“Benevolent Dictator For Life”) on his own company’s blog.
Which is so cringey it makes my skin crawl.
Every child with a blog is convinced they’re Guido van Rossum like it’s 2010.
Gross
Knowing a programming language is not software engineering.
It's like building a bird feeder and then claiming you can build a skyscraper.
Maybe I can build a bird feeder that is as tall as a skyscraper. 🤔/s
For one really big bird
It'll come crashing down 😱