Titles are by far the biggest influence on discussion. Most comments below are not about the article as a whole—just the cherry-picked bit of the article that the title singled out. Normally we'd change the title to e.g. "The Future of Programming - Interview with Richard Eisenberg" and remove the flags, but in this case the thread is already so skewed I don't think we can.
If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's great, but do so by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Edit: there's an earlier submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35993993 which I've just added to the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308).