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by swyx on Sunday February 12, 2023 @04:12PM
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thats an interesting quote from him. i only ever knew him as a writer - did he manage programmers too?
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It looks like a piece of poetic fiction, appropriate for the author.
The largest piece of context I could find online is [1], dated 1995, and written apparently earlier, at the time when programming was seen as wizardry, not really engineering, and definitely not as a knowledge-heavy but mundane money-making occupation, on par with a stock trader.
[1]: https://www.netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?file=DeveloperBees