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>The identity crisis observation is the most accurate thing

It's also a nasty tool used to dismiss criticism by tearing people down in work-friendly language.

Software does employ a lot turds that it shouldn't. We been knowing this. Impossible to ignore following the 2010s push to expand the hiring pool. Newcomers didn't even pretend to try or care.

Convenient that we're suddenly calling them out now. At the same time there's a need to indiscriminately invalidate professional-informed opinions.



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