Yeh the guy is going nuts. His whole job analysis thing is ridiculous. To me, it tells the guy has no critical sense, because this kind of paper would ruin the career of any economist.

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iainctduncan 2 days ago | parent [-]

To me me he's just another example of a very smart programmer being really bad at seeing big pictures, imagining from other perspectives, and generally having people/systems/economics/philosophy wisdom.

Unfortunately it seems endemic in our field. So many great coders have this laughably naive belief that, because they are good at something that makes them feel like a genius when they solve problems, they are in fact geniuses at solving all problems.

Even more unfortunately, AI seems to ramp that up to 10x along with the code generation.

I'm willing to be the public perception of programmers in general is going to be a lot workse five years from now....

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vunderba 2 days ago | parent [-]

There's a tangentially related concept to this where Nobel Prize winners have held, shall we say, rather questionable beliefs in areas outside their domain of expertise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease

	▲	iainctduncan a day ago \| parent [-]
		It's definitely a broader thing you see not unfrequently in academia too (I'm a very mature phd student right now in fact!), but man, programmers seem to have it real bad.