Your comment above makes the sweeping claim that broad chunks of the software engineering field aren’t “real” programmers, by your personal definition of “real”

Your comment above makes the sweeping claim that broad chunks of the software engineering field aren’t “real” programmers, by your personal definition of “real” and “programmer”. I’d suggest that any point whose initial premise defines your opposition out of the room is in bad taste. Having led by essentially saying “people who use StackOverflow in this way are not real programmers”, you’ve constructed an arbitrary high-ground from which to base the remainder of your case. The fact that the comment is also not nice doesn’t help, but the discussion of what is and isn’t “real” programming by your personal definition is what made it inflammatory to me.