joshblack1982

It's a literal shitpost. I think you're being hyperbolic.

I'd push back on the use of the term "good developers" here. Since the beginning of software development, software developers have had to adapt to ever changing technologies. The good ones adapt, and the bad ones fall off. A person could say that they were great at writing assembly back in the 70s or 80s, but almost nobody writes straight assembly nowadays, and if they do it's usually written as inline assembly. The environment has once again changed, and agentic coding is the change. The actual good developers will use coding agents to complement their skills and write better code faster, while the ones who can't use or refuse to use coding agents will fall off.

Also the article mentions "senior engineers", the term "senior" is thrown around so much these days — along with the term "engineer" — that it's beginning to lose all meaning. Everyone is a senior after 2 years of software development it seems. Honestly if a group of "senior" "engineers" and infrastructure consultants couldn't get an application working in a week with agents behind their back, I would doubt their expertise. Maybe that airline application is super complicated, but it looks like they let the agents run hog wild without any oversight, which no shit they didn't get a working application in a week. Anyone who has used agents for coding knows you can't do that and expect good results for anything more than a toy application. Also I didn't see a mention of which agents they used, they are far from equal. They could be using Claude Haiku on low effort for all I know.

I think this experiment would have been more interesting with 3 teams: One team with no agents allowed, one team who do full on vibecoding like it seems in this article, and the last which uses agents to complement developers.

Fully justified after the equivalent of 2,000 palestinians were killed.

Did he have a history of violence, or was there some good reason to send armed men to his place? If not, this is just a waste of resources, and also adding many armed men into the situation made it more likely for things to turn deadly.

You can still rack up a bill even if you can't pay for it. That solution just means the card declines when the monthly bill needs to be paid, not that you don't owe money.

Not to be confused with Adolf Hitler's half-nephew Bill Hitler, who fought against Adolf Hitler.

You hear that? You're ignorant and privileged for not wanting your car broken into.

And everyone will have forgotten about this by then anyway. That's like a million years in terms of elections.

This guy honestly sounds obnoxious.

Right off the bat, he's been laid off half a dozen times. Now being laid off while you're away for bereavement sucks, but what about the other five times though? Getting laid off once or twice isn't a big deal, but six times is a pattern. Then getting five rejections a day, there's a pattern there, and the common variable between them all is the person applying.

> Am I on some sort of blacklist invisible to employees for talking too much and causing too much of a ruckus in a workplace?

Maybe? Depends on what you were talking about and how much of a ruckus you made.

> Did my bringing up of a book at a company get one of the executives too upset?

Maybe? Depends on the book. Goodnight Moon? Mein Kampf? I have no idea what book it is.

> Did me having a crisis in public become too embarrassing for another?

Maybe? I have no clue what he's referring to.

> What the fuck is the problem?

It sounds like the author is the problem.

Then further on he talks about needing skills. Which yeah it's important, but it's also very important to get along with the people you're working with.

> It also doesn't help that I'm on public record multiple times for being comfortable with bringing a company to the cloth if they're not respecting their workers

Yeah is it really that surprising that companies don't want to hire people that will cause them problems?

Then I got to this part:

> I also know when I make white people uncomfortable and I'm not capable of being a respectable Negro

Jesus Christ man. I didn't even know the author was black up until this point. It isn't a race issue dude, you just sound awful to work with. You don't have to be a "respectable Negro", just be a respectable person.

> If I have to resort to that behavior in order to get a job, I'll join the police academy.

No stay far the fuck away from being a police officer. You don't sound like you have the right temperament to be one. If this is what the author sounds like while writing his blog, I can only imagine how bad he'd get under the pressure of doing police duties.

After reading this I went and looked the the guy's resume. After at most two years of professional experience he went from software engineer to senior software engineer, which is quite the jump for such little experience. And he was only in that position for a few months. The longest he's been able to hold down a job is two years. His list of technologies that he's familiar with is also pretty bare for seven years of experience. It's a pretty weak resume.

This guy really need to do some introspection and consider how his behavior is affecting his career. It's not just a tech industry thing either, he'll probably have problems wherever he goes just given how difficult he sounds.