Maybe it's unfair to judge an author's current opinion by their past opinion - but since the piece is ultimately an opinion based on their own experience I'm going to take it along a giant pile of salt that the author's standards for the output of AI tools are vastly different than mine.

Personally, I would want no involvement in a project where the maintainer is this manipulative and I would find it a tragedy if any people contributed to their project.

Im sure you've seen examples of this yourself - you can absolutely sport a Ray Ban in good taste and you've almost surely seen someone believe themselves to be fashionable because they are wearing a Ray Ban.

Also, I'm not suggesting fashion as a whole is about combing outfits - merely that being able to combine varying pieces of clothing into a cohesive whole is an expression of good taste.

I was hoping the article would go in that direction - what subjective combination is a software engineer deciding on that you can argue is truly a matter of taste and not just a technical decision about a trade-off.

I would say this this article itself may be an example of bad taste. It meanders across a couple of disparate topics in software engineering, independently each section is competently written but as a whole they really don't sell the "look" the article was aiming for.

(I don't mean to discourage future writing by the author - I think it's a potentially excellent choice of topic. I'm just giving my two cents here on the execution.)

The key element is where the will of the people points - Milosevic was already unpopular and the bombing further united the people against him.

The few Iranians I know are against the regime, but I don't know how the wider picture looks.