Some programmers prefer rubber ducky to colleges for similar reasons and it works for them.
Assuming people have time to listen, would they be better coders if they explained their problems to human instead? Maybe. But maybe not for them necessarily. E.g. low self-esteem and assuming every criticism is attack on them, human interactions are something expensive to them etc.
It's not a new pattern though. Especially after reading some biographies of famous scientists.
You can't escape that most brains are wired in a way that we are miserable without human connection, but you also can't escape the fact that some people brains are wired differently than others.
Long story short, I don't agree with them but I wouldn't judge them either.
Assuming people have time to listen, would they be better coders if they explained their problems to human instead? Maybe. But maybe not for them necessarily. E.g. low self-esteem and assuming every criticism is attack on them, human interactions are something expensive to them etc.
It's not a new pattern though. Especially after reading some biographies of famous scientists.
You can't escape that most brains are wired in a way that we are miserable without human connection, but you also can't escape the fact that some people brains are wired differently than others.
Long story short, I don't agree with them but I wouldn't judge them either.