| ▲ | paxys a day ago | |
> I’m significantly older than you. I started coding in the late 60s. Any opinion that starts with such a blatant appeal to authority can safely be ignored. | ||
| ▲ | munk-a a day ago | parent | next [-] | |
Appeals to authority aren't necessarily bad. I would hold an opinion on the internals of postgres from someone who worked heavily on postgres internals for forty years quite highly. Robert Martin started coding in the late 60s and then became an author and a software design consultant - his statement defines the start date of his relevant experience but doesn't speak to the end date of that experience or the density of his experience. He has a wealth of experience but not in a field that's relevant to his comment. I think an appeal to authority is a good basis for extending a bit of extra trust to statements - but you should always verify things yourself. | ||
| ▲ | Cider9986 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Don't fall for the the fallacy fallacy. | ||
| ▲ | lovich a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |
It was a pertinent response to the end of the tweet he was replying to. > Started programming in 1983. Old? I took that sentence as asking if he was old because he couldn’t trust AI and uncle bob brought up that he was much older and trusted the AI output because he trusted his constraints and test harnesses | ||