It’s not satire. These are exceptionally pragmatic suggestions packaged up in well-written prose.
Worth digesting
That sounds dismissive, did you intend that? It's my favorite type of writing. It tickles your brain. Does he mean it like he says? Do I agree? It makes you think, even when it sounds like he's telling you what to do.
Is it? I agree with almost all of it.
It most definitely isn't. It's written in a bit of an absurdist tone, but beneath all that it's a lot of solid advice about not over engineering things from the beginning and working iteratively.
You missed the Sarte quote about programming in C at the top then.
It's at least good satire, it's so close to the real kind of article it apes.
Not satire so much as an ironic dialectic - a progress through a series of (decreasingly?) daft ideas
Which ones are daft?
It's not satire; the technique of peppering a work like this with slightly-modified-famous-out-of-domain-quotes is not a tool of satire but of implicit metaphor.