[simonw]

OK, you won't except Linus. How about DHH, Max, Nolan, Steve, Mitchell, and those five HN commenters?

Or to strengthen the case for Linus, here he is on June 16th 2926 saying: https://youtu.be/YKkEe-PxW10?t=1687

> we certainly saw more junk being generated by LLMs than we saw useful code up until the like early this year

[wolvesechoes]

> How about DHH, Max, Nolan, Steve, Mitchell

Oh yes, dev celebs that rely on constant validation through social media. Very reliable source of data.

[simonw]

OK, now do ACS_Solver, suzzer99, IshKebab, smrtinsert, and qarl2.

[simianwords]

What about Uncle Bob of clean code? This is a bit embarrassing for you.

[wolvesechoes]

Uncle Bob was a dev celeb before there were dev celebs.

[simianwords]

So far you have ignored celebs/stalwarts and normal people as well. So it is quite convenient to draw boundary that exactly includes people like you