I lost a bit of respect for author, who I see frequently here on HN and elsewhere. I always thought they were reasonable, highly technical and have been casually following them since their svelte days.

Their pivot to AI and rebranding (from a dev advocate who did js frameworks to now suddenly being an expert of AI/LLMs) was inspiring but this take has left me with a poor taste in my mouth.

Yeah poorly phrased, but swyx is a good & kind dude who will do just about anything to hep folks out. I think he's just understandably frustrated with a dated (and rather parasitic) business model.

And I've known some good Gartner analysts... I just want this market to evolve as a win/win for everyone.

(author here) sorry you feel that way. this was just a rant because its fun to get unhinged every now and then - dx.tips is my outlet for that. if you see my work on latent.space and ai.engineer that's more representative of my "normal" self :)