I love docker. It's indispensable. But it's bitterly hilarious that we are in a place where that's true. I hope in 20 years we have figured out the problems docker solves without another "wrap the whole thing in an abstraction layer" solution. But I had hoped we'd be there by 2010.
Aside from trivial facts, beliefs can not be, and should not be, shaped by dispassionate observation alone. Even yours are not. And framing it the way you have is simply the same but oppositely-positioned fallacy as the one the author is accused of.
The granularity of the web stack is ruinous. Of course the opposite also has issues - e.g. iOS, a monolithic stack where there's one standard, but often good tool for every common requirement. But I'd happily take even a semi-competent benevolent dictator over the insane multiplication of options for every single microscopic piece of the stack, each with its own obscure proper noun, phrase, or acronym.
The rebuking is largely focused on using AI-written code (and other content) in ignorant ways, not on using AI to learn or to get example code upon which to base your own, or for simple objective code you can confidently audit, which are in fact more reliably good and less depressing/degrading/market-damaging use cases.
Thinking political correctness is bad does not necessarily put you in the "political correctness is bad" camp. I think political correctness is often bad, but I am not part of that "camp", i.e. people who irrationally hate things that they use "political correctness" as a broad disparaging label for.
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