funnily enough, software people also think they know how the rest of the world works, because they can make computers dance.
which explains all the abmysal software in education, health, or any other industry that has a human component.
that old meme of coders being anti-social neckbeards is wrong. such a caricature doesn't have any influence in the real world, precisely because that'd require interacting with squishy human parts.
reality is much worse. reality is full of people with little understanding of anything outside their narrow domain, paired with immense amounts of hubris and power, who get mics shoved into their faces on every fucking topic imaginable.
The only people who believe any of this are non-coders.
I tried to build a game (an area I’m an n00b in.) The results are amusingly disastrous - I never before coded a decent game.
But I’ll crack out backend services w AI rapidly - because I coded dozens of them before…