Having gone through his interview just now, his advice and experience seems centered around Vibe coding new applications and not really reflective of the reality of the industry.
> But I feel sorry for people who are good engineers – or who used to be – and they use Cursor, ask it questions sometimes, review its code really carefully, and then check it in. And I’m like: ‘dude, you’re going to get fired [because you are not keeping up with modern tools] and you’re one of the best engineers I know!’”
I would certainly take a careful person over the likes of yegge who seems to be neither pragmatic, nor an engineer.
>> I would certainly take a careful person over the likes of yegge who seems to be neither pragmatic, nor an engineer.
What utter nonsense. Yegge has been a programmer for longer than some people on this board have been alive, has worked on a lot of interesting and massively challenging projects and generously shared what he has learned with the community. Questioning his engineering chops is both laughable and absurd.
> But I feel sorry for people who are good engineers – or who used to be – and they use Cursor, ask it questions sometimes, review its code really carefully, and then check it in. And I’m like: ‘dude, you’re going to get fired [because you are not keeping up with modern tools] and you’re one of the best engineers I know!’”
I would certainly take a careful person over the likes of yegge who seems to be neither pragmatic, nor an engineer.