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		johnmaguire 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and... After listening to Yegge's interview, I'm not sure this is accurate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuJyJP517Uw For example, he makes a comment to the effect that anyone using an IDE to look at code in 2026 is a "bad engineer."

eikenberry 3 days ago [–]

Hyperbole is very common.

johnmaguire 1 day ago | | [–]

Watch the video - he's very clear that he's not looking at code. I see no indication that he is being hyperbolic.

matkoniecz 2 days ago | | [–]

In LLM field things move so fast that distinguishing accurate statements, mistaken statements, jokes and lies is hard.

A result, hyperbole is more annoying than usual.

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