> The title was the point of the post.

I still find it incredibly troubling. Not because the substance was wrong, but because a person of your caliber has stooped to the level of writing provocative headlines and language to attract attention. I strongly believe world-class technologists are supposed to be above that sort of thing. Leadership matters: not just thought leadership, but attitudinal leadership.

The funniest thing about this post is that I was writing it, in my head, to a specific group of developers I've worked with, and who I know to be smart and more talented than me. What I should have seen coming was that when I described a group of people as the smartest developers I know, everybody who read it would think it was about them.

Live and learn.

fwiw, I don't think it was deliberately provocative, it seemed to be his genuine belief.

I remember feeling similarly after seeing so many people denying what had already changed.

Thomas--as insufferable a windbag and terminally-online personality as he is--was not wrong in writing that post.

It's also hard to find a sufficiently anodyne way of writing that particular post, because quite frankly such a large a vocal contingent of the tech sphere is just so goddamned wrong about what was obviously happening in front of their lying eyes.

To use a coarse analogy, consider how difficult it would be to find a nice way of writing an article that says "folks, gravity is real and everybody saying that dropping an apple isn't going to have predictable results is wrong".

"You are all fucking idiots" is sometimes a reasonable starting point.