RexDouglass pushes back on AI coding gatekeeping: amateurs are winning a different game
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-07
In a spat with @dsavitt and @littmath, RexDouglass argues that some practitioners are socially constructing a market differentiator against new competition, telling amateurs they're losers when they're winning an entirely different game — including some genuinely good engineers. The quoted reply "Isn't dopamine the point?" frames this as a debate about identity and gatekeeping in AI-assisted coding. Cultural debate, no technical substance.
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