Hint: your comment can be interpreted as hostile/divisive.
For what it's worth, when I first read the comment under discussion, I thought it was a humorous jab at the fact that software dev salaries tend to be quite high. That's about it.
That particular construction unambiguously has the speaker referring to 'the other' and although that can be innocuous, it's very often used by people being divisive or offensive. So any use of it at all can end up making people question the intentions of the speaker.