You are getting stronger. I very much doubt you are getting better at code.

It must burn a little blogging about an LLM-driven latency analysis _internal demo_ only to have Datadog launch a product in the same space a day later. https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/bits-ai-sre/

And it wasn't just that single AI product either, they announced a bunch including an MCP server and cursor extension

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/dash-2025-new-feature-roundup...

http://hoplon.io/ is a lot closer to the Hickey/Norvig/Anderson paper.

"A correlation between people who use a language and the previous languages they have used does not imply a correlation (or intellectual/philosophical inheritance) between the language under discussion and the previous languages used."

And yet, that is exactly the basis for Yegge's point: attributing a philosophical label based on a perceived (and incorrect) background for a group. Goose, gander. Kettle, pot.

Maybe these labels don't have much meaning after all.