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Re:People who don't want to learn how to program can always ... by karmakaze on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @10:41AM (#40052577)
People who don't want to learn how to program can always find a reason why not to. This time it's AI, last time it was that tech was over because the Internet Bubble burst, the time before that it was that all the programming jobs were going to be outsourced to India.

[I purposely didn't mark that as a quote. Seeing the entirety as if it was written by a different Paul shows its emptiness.]

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Re:People who don't want to learn how to program can always ... by bwing1 on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @11:09AM (#40052965)
His obsession with clarity/minimalism in communication + the (befuddling) expectation that VCs are constantly opining on things seems to mean that more and more of his tweets read tonally as though they're addressed to a seven-year-old.
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Re:People who don't want to learn how to program can always ... by ballooney on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @11:29AM (#40053282)
Well, they absolutely _are_ addressed to impressionable, not always especially worldly, young [mostly] men. They are the workers he needs to send into his particular mine.
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