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by grayhatter 871 days ago
A hit piece is something written to intentionally degrade something. You can have a hit piece for Bitcoin, but not some technology. You can have a hit piece attacking someone who uses technology. But for that specific use, you wouldn't try to explain the idea as a thread through many different examples across many different separate engineering domains. This isn't a hit peice about your favorite flavor of tech, it's a "hit piece" about a new-enough trend that's appeared in SWE, it's a disagreement about an idea... more commonly referred to as, an opinion.

but you're right, opinions you don't agree with are dangerous.