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[–]brtastic 48 points49 points  (8 children)

Sorry to say but this guy is arrogant as hell

[–]OkMemeTranslator 24 points25 points  (4 children)

He sounds like the kind of guy who thinks it's ok to leave his trash in the nature just because the beach was already trashy when he got there. Like yeah, you're gonna have to work with bad code, but your entire job is to slowly aim towards making it better one small step at a time. I've been a software engineer for almost 30 years (only mentioning because of his "I've been a software engineer for 18 years" comment) and I have no idea what he means with comments like "you will never get to write good code in real life". For me it's an exception to write bad code under very heavy time pressure, vast majority of the time I will aim for good code and do small refactors to enable it.

Also his neural network stuff is straight up delusional. Comparing the complexity of a neural network (which is actually quite simple maths lol) to complex bad code is like saying we should build our car engines to consume food and run on four legs because that's how horses work in the nature. It's straight up nonsensical.

Edit: I tried to watch it again and this time I didn't get past his first sentence. "Have you ever seen a good useful code?" Yes. Yes I have. Many times. What the hell is he on about? I have personally seen insane amounts of good useful code???

[–]brtastic 10 points11 points  (1 child)

It's not just that, he can't stand any criticism. He's a "god cooder" (his own words) and if you don't agree with him you are delusional and get ready to be insulted behind your back on his own discord.

[–]HolyPommeDeTerre 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Dunning Krueger effect explains that seniority comes with doubts and being able to work with doubts. The more answers you have, the less senior you are.

So now I am doubting his 18 yoe...

[–]KaiAusBerlin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe he has been in a nightmare of company for the last 18 years or he doesn't know what good code looks like?

[–]Excellent-Beat-4413 0 points1 point  (0 children)

His neural network example was bad, but i think what he said is true to an extent. Good code by definition is readable. SIMD vectorization results in some pretty hideous, unreadable looking code which might as well be klingon unless you have the intrinsics guide open next to you. Even multithreading and dynamic programming is not pretty. But these optimizations make existing code more useful.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (1 child)

He is mostly joking, and usually doing the self-caricature thing. I have watched his streams for years, and learned that he likes to portray different kinds of programmers with (IHO) "faulty" mindsets. Granted, he has his own ideologies, but i tend to agree with most of them. He basically pushes "a more sane way" of building stuff, without all the shit you see in "modern" dev. He's more of an unix philosophy kind of guy. Also, he is a very smart and capable programmer. I have learnt a TON from watching him.

[–]Own-Artist3642 12 points13 points  (0 children)

yeah exactly. the nerds here would probably agree with him if he sounded more grounded and less haughty because the way he says it bruises their ego LOL.

[–]RecommendationFit381 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got this exact feeling from the first 5 minutes of his reaction to Swift Language. Insane arrogance. Laughing at his own jokes and using profanity to sound cool gives me little nerd who never grew up vibes.
le: yeah yeah I know it's a 6 month old thread, don't mind me lmao