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by mattgreenrocks 977 days ago
Absolutely. It’s a toxic, nihilist mentality that leaks into tools that greatly influence how we think.

Bad programmers are an organizational failure. You cannot fix that with tools.

You can make it easier for devs to fall into a pit of success, however. But, it’s fine line between facilitating that versus foisting things on users under the guise of being “opinionated.” The reality is it is often taken to be patronizing, such as views of nextauth on storing local usernames and passwords.