it does puzzle me how programmer culture is to over generalise as if its some epiphany or fundamental principle
in fact this blog just diagnoses two common viewpoints or perspectives
perhaps its just a style thing to get engagement with a blog
I do think there might be some value (insight?) into trying to generalise things sometimes. In this case it’s me trying to split all software engineers along a single axis and seeing whether it fits. I don’t think it’s a neat split, but the more I think about it the more I think I could, if pressed, sort a lot of engineers into one of these two buckets. Not at all times, but sometimes.
Generally speaking: over-generalisation can be lazy and it was in this case — I write these posts very quickly, as a braindump, and you shouldn’t read too much into it, except that it might be food (snack?) for thought.