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....

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