What he says is not true at all. People will (almost) always recommend better solutions when someone is "asking the wrong question".

And what he says about Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky is total nonsense. There's nothing bad about quoting other peoples' articles. Why reinvent the wheel ? Even articles that contain extensive references contain insightful context.

And a lot of negativity in this video, overall.

I think it sort of misses the point. Both Jeff and Joel write blogs about software development and how they think you can do it better. They don't claim to be solving the world's problems themselves, they're just saying "here's a bunch of stuff we found useful or interesting".

Jeff in particular I think is a relatively modest guy who these days knows he has a certain level of clout and uses it to raise the profile of ideas he finds interesting or useful. I don't think he claims to be a genius solving the problems of software development single handedly.

Personally I think you've got to be a fairly bitter individual to dislike internet-Jeff (by which I mean the public Jeff Atwood - IRL he may kick kittens for fun in which case hate away if you have personal reasons to think he's a bad person). Disagree with him about things sure, but I really struggle to see what there is to suggest that he's anything other than a decent member of the human race.