Congratulations on all the bites, Mr. Edge

For anyone wondering, here's the crucial "lynchpin of illogic":

>But, if you could measure programming ability somehow, its curve would look like the normal distribution.

Given such an admitted foundation of outright vacuity, the entirety of this article's thrust falls down. This is only fair given its tie-ins to the destructive populist big-lie narratives of "tech industry Problems", the earlier "not including $FEATURE is oppression"[0], and the contemporary "white men in their thirties (i.e. Babylon)". With the current media saturation of these narratives it's not surprising that self-admittedly lesser talents would buy into them hook-line-and-sinker, especially when keynote visibility is at stake.

This is after Occam's razor, mind. The less charitable reading is that of the crab bucket: mediocrities attempting to tear their betters down to elevate themselves, as though the current gurus got where they're at through politicking, advocacy, and racist-sexist name-calling; and not from diligent decades-long study and application to concrete merit.

Indeed, this is what those who've got no merit would do: claim that it is irrelevant, and that they're entitled to the same professional respect and courtesy as those who aren't outright parasites. As wiser people have said before me: they attack a straw-man of meritocracy because they know that they have no merit, but would still like to rule.

[0] this one in particular got so pervasive that it got even rms' attention; viz. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/imperfection-isnt-oppressi...