I get the feeling that many programmers look at programming as the act of imparting a superior program (their vision) from a superior machine (their brain) into

I get the feeling that many programmers look at programming as the act of imparting a superior program (their vision) from a superior machine (their brain) into an inferior machine (the computer). I see an ape banging on a particle accelerator. Still, we know a lot about how the ape’s brain works. You’d think we’d have designed programming languages and even syntax highlighting schemes that empirically lead to faster development and more correct programs. Surely we could devise a paradigm that is empirically better for sense-making, but here we are still arguing about semicolons and editor preference. Programming is so tribal, religious, prone to fads and poor outcomes that it’s cringe inducing when SWE act as if they’re superior to other people or professions. Everyone who hasn’t had to pay programmers for an outcome thinks they must be geniuses, everyone who has thinks they’re single celled organisms.