[politelemon]

Having gone through his interview just now, his advice and experience seems centered around Vibe coding new applications and not really reflective of the reality of the industry.

> But I feel sorry for people who are good engineers – or who used to be – and they use Cursor, ask it questions sometimes, review its code really carefully, and then check it in. And I’m like: ‘dude, you’re going to get fired [because you are not keeping up with modern tools] and you’re one of the best engineers I know!’”

I would certainly take a careful person over the likes of yegge who seems to be neither pragmatic, nor an engineer.

[linkregister]

Yegge became famous from his blog recounting his hiring as a software engineer at Google in the early 2010s. He has been an engineer for a long time.

However, the implication that someone failing to use an experimental technology is falling behind is hyperbole.

[enraged_camel]

>> I would certainly take a careful person over the likes of yegge who seems to be neither pragmatic, nor an engineer.

What utter nonsense. Yegge has been a programmer for longer than some people on this board have been alive, has worked on a lot of interesting and massively challenging projects and generously shared what he has learned with the community. Questioning his engineering chops is both laughable and absurd.

[swordsith]

the buck on engineer status in my opinion stops when someone becomes a crypto scammer.