So here's the thing. I am not generally an angry person. But Ed's writing really resonates with me, because for the last four years these people have been making a strategy of scaring the shit out of us while trying to ruin something I genuinely love (coding), while simultaneously fucking up the economy and multiple industries and turning the internet into slop. I very badly want more people to call these guys "chucklefucks" or whatever innovative ways he comes up with to insult them because they deserve far more public ridicule and disdain than the (captured, useless) media is giving them.

So far the data for productivity in coding is.. sus. The productivity gains outside of toy projects are mostly anecdotal and it's hard to tell if those accounts are even real humans or just astroturfing and bots. Almost every programmer I know personally has a pretty measured opinion on where these things are useful and where they're not. The breathless hype seems mostly from non coders.