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Antirez is a top 0.001% coder . Don’t think this generalizes to human coders at large


Seriously, he’s one of the best on the planet of course it’s not better than him. If so we’d be cooked.

99% of professional software developers don’t understand what he said much less can come up with it (or evaluate it like Gemini).

This feels a bit like a humblebrag about how well he can discuss with an LLM compared to others vibecoding.


Hey, my CEO is saying that LLMs are also top 0.001% coders now, so should at least be roughly equivalent.




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