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As an EE working in engineering 30 years, I ran out of fingers and toes 29 years ago trying to count the number of asocial, incompetent programmer Dark Triads who can only relate to the world through esoteric semantics unrelated to engineering problems right in front of them.

"To add two numbers I must first simulate the universe." types that created a bespoke DSL for every problem. Software engineering is a field full of educated idiots.

Programmers really need to stop patting themselves on the back. Same old biology with the same old faults. Programmers are subjected to the same old physics as everyone else.

In the US anyway, most adults read at a middle school level.

It's not "masquerading as a human". The majority of humans are functional illiterates who only understand the world through the elementary principles of their local culture.

It's the minority of the human species that take what amounts to little more than arguing semantics that need the reality check. Unless one is involved in work that directly impacts public safety (defined as harm to biology) the demand to apply one concept or another is arbitrary preference.

Healthcare, infrastructure, and essential biological support services are all most humans care about. Everything else the majority see as academic wank.

The shelf life of technology books is shorter than it takes to read them. Most were notebooks of students quickly edited into a learning tool. Oh wow more Python recipes. Another introduction to C++!

The worlds moved on from valuing the latest DSL and additions to the Linux kernel. Just a fad marketed at GenX and older Millennials.

SaaS is something tech billionaires need to exist. It's not something humanity needs. Not at the scale of the 2010s ZIRP fueled mania, anyway. Employers were using subscriptions to O'Reilly as a perk. No budget for perks in the AI and economic austerity era.

Maps app, communication apps, media consumption are all most of the billions of smartphone users care about.