I’m reminded of his argument about how “hackers” choose languages that let them type the fewest characters possible, an argument that seems empirically unfounded to me.
It’s fine if that’s his preference, but the argument that the best programmers (“hackers” in his parlance) prefer what he prefers to be both self serving and contrary to actual real world evidence.
I sort of get the sense that he doesn't realize how many crazy talented (but not famous) programmers there are out there. He's got a microphone and is determined to keep using it to tell us how great his ideas are, but the audience has gotten a lot more discerning since the 90s when producing a CRUD app in Lisp could still be considered a feat.
Ah yes, just like real writers write in Ithkuil, a language constructed to maximize the meaning encoded per syllable.