> When asked to name his favorite episode

> It's definitely autistic to name drop the title to an audience of adults who likely don't remember

If someone asks me to name an episode I'll assume they know the show, and that the name is sufficient. Because they asked for only that. Why can questions have an implicit "and tell me about it", but the answers cannot have an implicit "I assume you know which one it is"?

You might be more likely to pick up on some context clues that this is an NPR reporter trying to make conversation about the topic she's just been told you're interested in, rather than a fellow obsessive fan of early-2000s children's TV.

I would probably explicitly ask if they want to know what the episode is about. But only after seeing their confused reaction to the silence after the first answer. And that's a maybe.

If you want to know something, ask it. Not everyone wants (or is able) to bother with deciphering what you think internally.

The person in the article has many issues. But I don't consider giving straight answer to a straight question being one of them.

People expecting others to conform to their way of communication without making an effort to meet others halfway are the main issue.

If someone cannot reason about types when forced to, I wouldn't want to see their code _without_ typescript.

> nothing that needed a new catch-phrase

Of course it didn't. But how else would the "why do you ask for more pay when I ask for more work" managers shame their workers into unpaid overtimes?

> delete the first part of 5 pascalCased variables with different lengths

In VSCode there are available bindings for subword navigation (shortcuts starting with cursorWordPart).