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PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"

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  1. arnaudsm · · focus · HN ↗
    Misleading title, there's another major reason: it's an embargo agreement violation that jeopardizes Linux support on PS5.

    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;theflow0&#x2F;status&#x2F;2099987019954831744" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;theflow0&#x2F;status&#x2F;2099987019954831744

    1. seki285 · · focus · HN ↗
      Nothing misleading about the title and you are splitting hairs.
      1. arnaudsm · · focus · HN ↗
        Omitting half of the story is misleading, this isn&#x27;t a pro&#x2F;anti LLM story.

        Vibecoding has been the norm for months, it&#x27;s the embargo violation today that triggered his resignation.

        1. lovich · · focus · HN ↗
          &gt; …been the norm for months…

          You know, it’s petty, but I think one of the things I hate the most about AI is that it surpassed front end JavaScript frameworks in terms of changing what the standard is every few years.

          What’s the point of learning anything if it becomes obsolete faster than the seasons change?

          1. sublinear · · focus · HN ↗
            Just so you know, the frontend framework wars started and ended pretty quickly in the latter half of the 2010s.

            It was the downstream effect of the browser wars settling down and W3C making big moves on getting vendors to finally implement standards that were sorely needed. It had nothing to do with web dev culture.

            1. theamk · · focus · HN ↗
              I dunno, here is an entrant from 2025: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45071024">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45071024

              (not a JS dev myself, but I read HN so I see those posts every once in a while..)

              1. sublinear · · focus · HN ↗
                The most urgent needs in frontend web dev were components and state management.

                Vue and React won out, and I still don&#x27;t see that changing for the foreseeable future on the vast majority of corporate web apps. This remaining split is just coke vs pepsi. Basically, a meaningless distinction and stable.

                I don&#x27;t doubt there will always be new tools, but a lot of HN doesn&#x27;t see the forest for the trees when it comes to web. So many people chime in ignorantly just to be bullies and spread FUD and self-promote. I think that strategy not going to work again for a while. Everyone is very burned out on that overplayed game in all aspects of life, not just web dev.

                If anyone is interested in frontend dev, LLMs only further entrench this situation. Now is the time to be creative with mature tools and learn a thing or two. The web summer is upon us, not an autumn of dying tools nor a winter of AI replacing people.

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