Stack overflow (and internet in general) changed the programming as we (at least some of us) knew it.

When I was learning programming I had no internet, no books outside of library, nobody to ask for days.

I remember vividly having spent days trying to figure out how to use the stdlib qsort, and not being able to.

Yes, exactly.

I strongly prefer directness in technical communication at work.

But the way the article author phrases his preferences as absolute truth rubs me the wrong way.

Also if I worked with that person then after reading the article I would have perhaps the opposite reaction to the author's intentions.

You still have to walk on eggshells to not offend him by including any bit of information that he might consider not relevant enough.

Yes, you can get a project with claude to a state of unrecoverable garbage. But with a little experience you can learn what it's good at and this happens less and less.

I wonder what is the business model.

It seems like the tool to solve the problem that won't last longer than couple of months and is something that e.g. claude code can and probably will tackle themselves soon.

Anecdotally,

In public transport I see almost as many people playing games on their phones as those watching videos.