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  • He claimed farther down the reddit thread that it was just a joke, but like, only after people were saying that nobody who calls themselves that would even be able to recognize the best engineer in the world if they saw them work.

    So, y’know, he pulled a dishonest rhetorical device to defend himself. Like he kinda always does when arguing on the internet. He’s been delusionally narcissistic in basically every discussion I’ve seen him get involved in, first engaging in these Shrodinger’s douchebag lines and then moving goalposts and then later, when cornered, redirecting the conversation to be about other peoples’ designs’ flaws instead of his behavior.

    I’ve met maybe a dozen people like him IRL. Every single one has thought they were the biggest genius alive and just needed to prove it somehow.

    One guy I know with a personality like him is obsessed with using AI to write code, too. Thinks he’s on track to make the greatest video game of all time because he’s building a game engine from scratch, including using c++ to directly program the GPU instead of using Vulkan or DirectX. I pointed out the portability issues and he seems to think that that’s not a big deal because he can use AI to rewrite it for whatever target platform. He doesn’t have a game design in mind yet.