Competitive to what end? There is no hard limit on the amount of code that can be written. If I write something that is not great, it doesn't prevent you in any way from writing something amazing, so why concern yourself with what I am doing at all? In my experience, the only time I start to become critical of other programmers is when I feel insecure about my standing, like in the workplace, which is an environment that is fabricated by someone else (earlier referred to as "Bad Guys").

With that, I'm inclined to agree with the parent, though perhaps his use of Bad Guys does detract from the underlying message. I don't think there is some deep plot by born-evil people to keep programmers down, but I agree with the point that we could all do much better by working together in a positive way instead of trying to out-shame each other in hopes of capturing the top prize of impressing someone else.