However, that is not what the author means in the context of the article. It seems to me that she is using it to refer to experienced developers who are fed up with the change in software toward the "brogramming" culture (though god I hate that word), and are at the stage where they'd rather get out of software then try to change things.

That said, the way she uses the phrase seems particularly odd to me, and it took me a while to try to understand what she meant.