Adam Jacob
  It’s not slop. It’s not forgetting first principles. It’s a shift in how the craft work, and it’s already happened. 

This post just doubled down without presenting any kind of argument.

  Bruce Perens
  Do not underestimate the degree to which mostly-competent programmers are unaware of what goes on inside the compiler and the hardware.

Now take the median dev, compress his lack of knowledge into a lossy model, and rent that out as everyone's new source of truth.