Compiler warnings are harmful

I definitely identify with the point about alarm fatigue: as a web developer who is used to spelunking for errors with a single stack trace, seeing 1000 warnings scroll by when compiling a large project (especially someone else's) can be daunting.

That being said I don't see it as a serious issue - if I were really put off by it I would write a utility to customize the output of my compiler to suit my tastes - isn't that what hackers do anyhow?

It's on the Internet, it must be right!

Seems that the author is annoyed by people in his workplace who enabled "treat warnings as errors" and wrote a rant. You can always disable compiler warnings if you don't like them.