Articles like these often make me ponder the state of software engineering and especially the state of its leadership... I never have conversations that even re

Articles like these often make me ponder the state of software engineering and especially the state of its leadership... I never have conversations that even remotely resemble (even a slightly less exaggerated version of) the opening example... Yet the author claims to have had them often enough to have noticed a pattern... One thing that I have seen enough of to notice a pattern is articles like this... As someone who would self identify as an engineer, I find this to be a deeply troubling pattern in an engineering discipline. And merely extolling the virtues of critical thinking (to, humorously, engineers) is probably not a solution. Potential areas to address this are probably education and hiring...