[poszlem]

The mistake you’re making is assuming it’s the same group of people saying both things. The “strictly typed, no GC, optimize everything” crowd hasn’t suddenly turned into the “lol I don’t read my AI-generated PRs” crowd. Those are two different tribes of devs with completely different value systems.

What’s changed isn’t that the same engineers did a 180 on principles, it’s that the discourse got hijacked by a new set of people who think shipping fast with AI is cooler than sweating over type systems. The obsession with performance purity was always more of a niche cultural flex than a universal law, and now the flex du jour is “look how much I can outsource to the machine.”

[DrewADesign]

No— I’m not assuming that but I absolutely can see how what I wrote could come across like that. Dominant voices in many communities change more frequently than the core principles of the people in them— some people just get louder, more visible, and more numerous and others fall to the wayside, especially when there’s marketing or some sort of ‘movement’ involved. (And there’s all sorts of ‘movements’ involved in tech hype and some of them are bovine.)

Your read on the situation concurs with mine. Cheers.