We have polar opposite media bubbles. I see OG programmers all over my timeline either grieving the "end of software engineering" (a la Ryan Dahl) or extolling "automatic programming" (a la antirez).
The person you’re replying to, in the bit you quoted, said specifically:
> Almost every programmer I know personally
People you know personally are not a “media bubble”. They are, to borrow your expression, polar opposites. It’s people you can speak with candidly and trust versus bits of text without the full context.
They are not only useful it is obvious they are. If you don’t see it I really, really don’t know what to tell you. You can tell yourself I am bot or shill or whatever if that helps you sleep but .. just trying to help out another dev here. Wake the F up.
Your whole post is dismissive and insulting and has zero arguments. No one is helped by that, no one is going to change their mind with that, you’re only making the divide more pronounced. You’re being actively unhelpful.
> You can tell yourself I am bot or shill or whatever
I mean, your account was obviously created specifically to post that comment…
So far the data for productivity in coding is.. sus. The productivity gains outside of toy projects are mostly anecdotal and it's hard to tell if those accounts are even real humans or just astroturfing and bots. Almost every programmer I know personally has a pretty measured opinion on where these things are useful and where they're not. The breathless hype seems mostly from non coders.