> “I’m not a programmer,[] —oh, engineer, in tech-bro speak. Though to me, engineers are people who build bridges and follow pretty rigid processes for a reason

> “I’m not a programmer,[] —oh, engineer, in tech-bro speak. Though to me, engineers are people who build bridges and follow pretty rigid processes for a reason.” His indictment touches a nerve. No shit it touches a nerve. It's cliché both in sentiment and presentation. No laboratory could design a sentence more tailor-made to light up an American-left cultural-critic writer's brain. It's almost a work of art that in so few words the speaker postured themselves, namecheked this week's scapegoat and even snuck in a bit of a humble-brag.