The End Of Coder Influence

Zed Shaw · 24 Nov 2016

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The influence of the previous generation of programmers is largely gone.

Their wordsI believe that the influence of the previous generation of programmers is largely gone.
Our reading
The newer generation of programmers is more well rounded and has a general distaste for tribalism in open source.

Their wordsI also believe the newer generation of programmers are more well rounded and have a general distaste of this kind of tribal fascist bullshit we have in open source.
Our reading
The influence of the programmer hive mind is nothing outside of a small bubble of Silicon Valley programmers who read HN.

Their wordsI now think the actual influence of the hive mind on anything outside of the tiny little set of Silicon Valley Programmers Who Read HN bubble is nothing.

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