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this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2025
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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it happened again, I Posted. dash of thread to it too. some of y’all may enjoy
and yes that capital P is load bearing
I have some thoughts about this goober (Simon Willison) that I need to get out of my head:
First the positives:
But, by his own admission:
Tl;dr: an experienced dev who uses clankers to churn out tons of technically functional hobby software and thinks this gives him right to speak for all software engineers.
i haven’t tried to spend thought on the why of his posting (I have better thoughts I can waste time on), but if you’re right about the points you guess on then I argue his position and actions are even more fucking dangerous (because those won’t shine through easily to those of lesser experience unless very specifically be made to show with care and forethought)
either way, he remains muted in my feed. for being interminably tiresome and annoying as fuck.
Me too. Unfortunately I don't get to pick my intrusive thoughts.
Heh
there's one for the comeback vault