Not only that, but the title of the post is, "I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry".
This person is so confident in himself, that he thinks his code review takedowns are so brutal, yet effective, that he is ruining lives. It almost comes off as "I'm so handsome that I ruin people's lives with my looks and I'm sorry."
And then there is this...
"I was mad that, while I spent my nights learning F#, my daughter started calling everyone around “fathers”. And this guy, instead of getting better at his job, went home to his children. And I wanted to punish him."
I had the opposite reading. It feels obvious he's creating a caricature, some of which is exaggerated, some of which is truthful of not just him, but other developers.
The recounting of "bullying"/hazing on forums definitely resonates as well, and he's just remarking that he'd become what he'd hated.
This is more of a reflective piece rather than a glorification of his behavior.
>> My personality today isn’t my disease. It’s a disease of the whole industry... just stop being that. It’s quite easy, actually.
This person is so confident in himself, that he thinks his code review takedowns are so brutal, yet effective, that he is ruining lives. It almost comes off as "I'm so handsome that I ruin people's lives with my looks and I'm sorry."
And then there is this...
"I was mad that, while I spent my nights learning F#, my daughter started calling everyone around “fathers”. And this guy, instead of getting better at his job, went home to his children. And I wanted to punish him."
Uh, whose life is being ruined?