These developer personalities like Theo and ThePrimageon and PirateSoftware all seem holier-than-thou and know-it-all. It's like podcaster bro x programming and I hate it.

I’m unsure how PirateSoftware is popular. Most of the time has either spins a story that a team of people worked on at blizzard worked on as his own personal achievement. Or has no idea what he’s talking about.

Theo on the other hand is mostly an idiot and people think he’s an authoritative figure on everything. He will never admit he’s wrong, rather sweep it under the rug or pretend no one saw him be wrong.

you seem to think that he takes his peers achievemenrts as his own. I think that is exactly it. People on youtube gravitate towards people who has that kind of ease and effortlessness to them. Cause effort is just not cool anymore. Pirate just looks so chill and zen and he is quite a clear communicator and knows how to appear smart. And he has actual ins to the industry so he's more interesting than other streamers. The only persona flaw is that he honestly comes across as liking his own voice and has too many 'insights'.

I mean, fair enough you feel that but they don't seem that way to me.

Theo is too quick on the gun with breaking tech news and habitually does not come with the appropriate context or knowledge to sustain any insight. Though if I were in his shoes trying to cover every breaking development in tech (read: HN front page trending) I would be caught with my pants down 80% of the time.

Prime is really about the entertainment value from what I've seen, though to his credit is aware of his limits and knowledge. I have found his reaction videos tedious with the excessive commentary.

PirateSoftware, to his credit is quite an insightful person in my estimations and all of his advice is contextualised in his own experiences which is usually quite valuable but sometimes not given the highly individual nature of it. Some of his purported life hacks are flat out terrible, but for what he gets wrong, he does get a lot right, especially around indie game dev.

I often wonder about his indie game dev advice because as far as I can tell, he isn't a successful indie game dev. He's a streamer. That's fine, but I am a successful indie game dev and I think I may have better advice. That's just my internal monologue tho, I'm not trying to share my wisdom.

Seems like a very logical internal monologue. I'm more interested in your wisdom than his.

> I have found his reaction videos tedious with the excessive commentary

I don't follow any of the mentioned youtubers, but their stuff occasionally appears in my recommendations. I don't understand the point of videos where someone just scrolls through a blog post and reads it out loud. It comes across as narcissistic and an attempt to piggyback on anything to "create content". There's rarely any added value, and it also feels extremely inefficient to watch such "reaction videos" when I could just skim through the text myself. I guess I'm too old and not part of the target audience.

I think there is a value especially when you are not part of that world. It's like watching a new sport and you can hear the commentators and hear which parts excite them and hear their read on the matter at a higher level than you (I) can. It's a good way to get into the same wavelength. Kinda like oil.

I just liked primeagen from the above. I like him cause he made no pretense to objectivity and he is also very exciteable, which is a valuable information in itself.

I soured on him when he shit on the Ladybird Browser alpha. He was also the first person I saw use Arc Browser and look how that turned out.