I'm not sure it's meta at all. All I'm doing here is sneering at the smug self-congratulatory tone a percentage of the developer community takes in response to

I'm not sure it's meta at all. All I'm doing here is sneering at the smug self-congratulatory tone a percentage of the developer community takes in response to accusations that software is eating the world. As an example, there was a discussion a little while back about self-driving cars and the implications for the OTR trucking industry, a change that is likely to spell the end of OTR driving as a career path. With exceptions, the general response was "Oh well, sucks to be those guys. They should learn to code.". This kind of entitled response is typical whenever loss of jobs due to automation is discussed. Usually followed up with assertions that this merely frees up labor to pursue other opportunities in the broader economy, ignoring the fact that all too often these "new opportunities" are a McJob of some kind.