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Bollock theory #01: Inflated ego of programmers

written in 25/01/07 15:14 GMT+8

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Your usual diclaimer: I am pretty damn sure you can find an amount of programmer/coder that didn't fit into this bollock, as with every answer of "Is that all of them?"

There is a reason I called these pieces as "Bollock theory" since, well, it's mostly guessing.

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Recently I've been "topic surfing" as usual, and saw some people on bluesky talking about a total jackass worthless piece of shit GPT user that doesn't want to read.

So, on top of thinking some stuff like this fucker should skip their life and head to the end result of living, I am also thinking: why?

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In past years, as far as I can see, people are prasing programmers/coders, IT works, computer related jobs like it's the only thing matters.

The root cause of "learn to code".

Tutorial of how to code went viral, more people are encouraged to do program related job, you know, usual stuff that started back in, I don't know, 201X?

And the salary of your average programmer, needless to say, as the money went in tech goes up, tend to have a better salary then every other job.

Guess what happens when a group of people got a great amount of money, and knows vast majority thinks your job is important? (we call them 科技新貴 in T.Chinese)

Saw that no-good human-shaped pile of musk?

What if I tell you there is a lot of its larvae that just didn't grow up fat enough to become it?

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When you got a bunch of people that got a great life by only have to deal with computer code, that's part of the source of the inflated ego.

Thus leads to the "hammer syndrome" where a person naively or maliciously think they can solve everything with their ability.

Case in point, game developers who supports the usage of generative "AI".

Calls artists "a fucking nuisanse to deal with", as if the only important part of a game is programming

Fuck no, every parts are equally important.

The only reason you can deem it "non-important" is because you just fucking stole it from somebody else you motherfucking parasite.

Those people are really close to the "Ancient books should be read with ChatGPT" sack of shit.

How close? About the length of the radious of a single electron.

Since in their head the efficiency (which means the only stuff they understand and make a living with) is the only thing that matters.

I don't know, but I sure damn hope these morons aren't laughing at Crowdstrike or other IT company's dumb decision of firing off IT department, or it would be fucking stupid without surprise.

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The short end of culture related stuff comparing to program stuff is, believe or not, it takes way longer to see the consequence.

Most people only treat such thing as some entertainment, or in some severe cases, useless crap.

No joke, back in the day I actually saw a fucker thinks it's good to let native culture stuff got mangled and remixed since "that way it will still be alive".

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Disgusting.

These thing are pretty much as important as chimpanzees and fuck it, all of the animals that's endangered.

To quote the Vsauce Mind Field Season 3 Episode 1: The Cognitive Tradeoff Hypothesis:

"Today, we study those who took different paths as a way to learn more about ourselves."

"If we lose them, we lose part of our story, where we came from, who we are, and who we can be in the future."

That, is what culture means to humanity.

It is also a reason why your average attitude of "language is just a tool" of Taiwanese is gross.

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There is an old self-destrucitve joke among art-related worker that we are only living by eating dreams and rainbow.

After all, for a country which only cares about money and tech, which makes lots of money, disrespecting those jobs is just as as natural as breathing.

Sure damn hope I would be proven wrong, but I'll be honest, I would have a better odds in winning jackpot in online casino.

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