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    primeagen's view

He's a content creator on youtube, a celebrity, not a serious programmer.

[GuB-42]

He was a software engineer at Netflix before turning to content creation. It is also clear watching his videos that he knows his thing. As an experienced programmer myself, I find his commentary to be way too relatable to be just bluff.

He may not be Don Knuth, Linus Torvalds, John Carmack or Fabrice Bellard. But he is definitely a serious programmer. That he livestreams doesn't make him less of a programmer.

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It is clear watching his content that he just chases whatever the talk of the day is and chiming in on things he has no knowledge of.

[love2read]

Who cares what you think of someone else’s qualifications?

It’s just someone quoting someone to help ground their position.

What if it was a journalist writing about a security vulnerability then a programmer quoting them, would that count then?

[jmull]

If it doesn't matter, why did the previous poster mention them?

It's pretty clearly a type of argument called an "appeal to authority", where an authority is cited to add credibility to a position. It's usually considered a pretty weak form of argument, but it can be effective. So the credibility of the cited authority is relevant.