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this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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AI bros do new experiments in making themselves even stupider. Going from 'explain what you did but dumb it down for me and my degraded attention span' into 'just make a simplified cartoon out of it'.
Proud of not understanding what is going on. None of these people could hack the Gibson.
E: If they all hate programming so much, perhaps a change of job is in question, sure might not pay as much, but it might make them happier.
I don't know about them, but I would be offended if I was planning something with a collaborator, and they decide to give me a dumbed down, entertaining, children's storybook version of their plan while keeping all the technical details to themselves.
Also, this is absolutely not what "cognitive debt" means. I've heard technical debt refers to bad design decisions in software where one does something cheap and easy now but has to constantly deal with the maintenance headaches afterwards. But the very concept of working through technical details? That's what we call "thinking". These people want to avoid the burden of thinking.
Person who lied on his resume about having a cs degree "I need to reduce my cognitive debt"
Wait, wait, wait. I didn't realize this before. Who the F needs to lie about not having a CS degree? Being a code monkey is (or at least used to be) something, where you can get away with not having a degree.
I was trying to make a joke (and failing) about how people misuse terms. Sorry about it not landing. Should have thought about it better.
Oh I get it now. I thought there's some backstory that either Nathan Baschez or Simon Willison lied about having a CS degree.
Nope sorry, just a bad attempt at a joke. Made sense in my head the first time, now less ;).