I strongly disagree. There's always been two camps ... on everything!

Emacs vs. vi. Command-line editor vs. IDE. IntelliJ vs. VS Code. I could do like twenty more of these: dev teams have always split on technology choices.

But, all of those were rational separations. Emacs and vi, IntelliJ and VS Code ... they're all viable options, so they boil down to subjective preference. By definition, anything subjective will vary between different humans.

What makes AI different to me is the fear. Nobody decided not to use emacs because they were afraid it was going to take their job ... but a huge portion of the anti-AI crowd is motivated by irrational fear, related to that concern.

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That's great, he sounds like a great guy ... when he say something newsworthy (on X or anywhere else), it might deserve to be here.

But his random thoughts on X do not.

I don't understand how random thoughts on X are front-page news on Hacker News.

If some tech CEO makes a major announcement on X, it's newsworthy and belongs here. Anything else that's actual news is also fair game ... but all other X posts do not belong here!

From the article:

    const now = new Date();

    const now = Temporal.Now.zonedDateTimeISO();

I mean, I guess it's two steps forward and one step back ... but couldn't they have come up with something that was just two steps forward, and none back ... instead of making us write this nightmare all over the place?

Why not?

    const now = DateTime();