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Please Don't Call Me A Developer

August 10, 2026

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Nico says this about once a day on the show: when somebody calls him a developer, he asks them not to. The reason is not modesty about what he ships. It is that what he does does not work the way a developer's work works, and he would rather the word stay accurate for the people it belongs to. He will take vibe coder without argument and does not care if it is meant as a dig. What he will not do is walk into a room of developers implying he knows what they know.

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