I feel like the people I interact with irl don’t even know how to boot from a USB. People here probably know how to do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line. Stg I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.
Yeah. The modern breed of computer nerd seems to have adopted the aesthetics of rationalism and intelligence without actually interrogating the substance of those two traits, is a trend I’ve noticed a lot in the past few years.
You can’t have your cake and eat it too. You can’t be a good computer scientist if you’re not willing to engage with the discipline on a deeper - bordering on spiritual - level. All the early greats in compsci were steeped in the culmination of the past centuries of human philosophy and intuition. People like that have earned their arrogance and did not accept it willingly.
I think most people, generally, tend to vastly overestimate how good of an engineer they actually are. There’s a lot of reasons for this culture but I notice it seems to get worse over time, at least here in the West. The techbro stereotype exists for a reason. They can glean the sheer & audacious, almost cosmic gravity of what they work with and the concepts at hand, so they therefore feel valid in their pomp, yet fail to reflect personally on what any of it actually meant in the first place?