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Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI by Forgeties79 on Friday December 26, 2025 @01:07PM (#46394514)
>appeal to authority

How so? He’s talking about what happened to him in the context of his professional expertise/contributions. It’s totally valid for him to talk about this subject. His experience, relevance, etc. are self apparent. No one is saying “because he’s an expert” to explain everything.

They literally (using AI) wrote him an email about his work and contributions. His expertise can’t be removed from the situation even if we want to.

Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI by 8note on Friday December 26, 2025 @04:53PM (#46396714)
having made Go amd parts pf Unix gives him no authority in the realms that his criticisms are aimed at though - environment science, civil engineering, resource management etc

not having a good spam filter is a kinda funny reason for somebody to have a crash out.