As an observer to this conversation, I can't help but notice that both have a good point here.
Soulofmischief’s main point is that meesles made an inappropriate generalization. Meesles said that something was impossible to do, and soulofmischief pointed out that you can't really infer that it's impossible for everyone just because you couldn't find a way. This is a perfectly valid point, but it wasn't helped by soulofmischief calling the generalization “patronizing”.
Bluefirebrand pushed back on that by merely stating that their experience and intuition match those of meesles, but soulofmischief then interpreted that as implying they're not a real programmer and called it a No True Scotsman fallacy.
It went downhill from there with soulofmischief trying to reiterate their point but only doing so in terms of insults such as the Dunning-Kruger line.
I only took issue with ", sorry." The rest of it I was fine with. I definitely didn't need to match their energy so much though, I should have toned it down. Also, the No true Scotsman was about deep work, not being a programmer, but otherwise yeah. I didn't mean to be insulting but I could have done better :)
Oh 100%. I deliberately passed no judgement on the actual main points, as my experience is quite literally in between both of theirs.
I find agent mode incredibly distracting and it does get in the way of very deep focus for implementation for myself for the work I do... but not always. It has serious value for some tasks!