This is misleading because you use plural for both and I'm sure most of these UX missteps were _each_ made by a _single_ person, and there were >1 users even at the time.

I think he meant that at that time all users were programmers. Yes, _all_ .

It was a bit of an over-generalization, but yes that's basically what I was going for.

> and there were >1 users even at the time.

Are you sure there wasn't >&1 users... Sorry I'll get my coat.

I think that's likely to work as a no-op

Get out.

did you mean to write "<1"?

arguably if you're using the CLI they still are

Yeah but now they're using npm to install a million packages to do things like tell if a number is greater than 10000. The chances of the programmer wanting to understand the underlying system they are using is essentially nil.

Yea, they are just much higher level programmers… most programmers don’t know the low level syscall apis.

nah, we have long had other disciplines using the CLI who do not write their own software, e.g. sysadmins