This is a person clearly grieving that his hard earned knowledge in his field is now not that valuable.

It is * exactly * the same as a person who spent years perfecting hand written HTML, just to face the wrath of React.

vsgherzi 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Disregarding the fact that Bryan operates oxide a company that has multiple investors and customers (id say this proves valuable knowledge) the crazier fact is that people think html is useless knowledge.

React USES html. Understanding html is core to understanding react. React does not in anyway devalue html in the same way that driving automatic devalues driving manual

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simianwords 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Go to Facebook.com and right click view source and tell me html is not being devalued. No person who wants to write aesthetic html would write that stuff.

	▲	vsgherzi 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Do the same to Google.com When it matters it matters. Even in facebooks case they made react fit for their use case. You think the react devs didn’t understand html? Do you think quality frontends can be written without any understanding of html? Like the article says we’ve moved an abstraction up. That does not make the html knowledge useless

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rakel_rakel 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://xkcd.com/1053/

I recommend you go look at some of his talks on Youtube, his best five talks are probably all in my all time top-ten list!

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g-b-r 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Your account name is so fitting

Now look up who he actually is.

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lapcat 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> This is a person clearly grieving that his hard earned knowledge in his field is now not that valuable.

He's co-founder and CTO of his own company, so I think he's doing fine in his field.

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simianwords 7 hours ago | parent [-]

It doesn't change the fact that much of what (I think) he prides in himself in is getting commoditised.

	▲	0xBA5ED 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I would seriously consider if you've developed an imaginary caricature in your mind that you apply to people you don't know. Further, I would consider if any living person actually lives up to it.
	▲	wiseowise 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		LLMs dissolved your brain if you think they commoditize what a guy like this[0] prides in himself. https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/about/
	▲	bcantrill 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		On the one hand, I admire (at some level) you sticking to your guns here, willing to take on all comers. On the other, though, I don't entirely understand the inference that you're drawing from the piece; what, exactly, is getting commoditized?
	▲	pxc 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What he prides himself in (in this context) is craft, which LLM use probably can enable, but definitely isn't commoditized by the kind of vibe coding that Garry Tan is doing.