I wonder why the need for this validation. I see deluded thinking all the time in this field, in fact, I see it more in this field than any other because it is

I wonder why the need for this validation. I see deluded thinking all the time in this field, in fact, I see it more in this field than any other because it is so easy to be self made here. You can fake "working" software, that's why so much of it is low quality because to outsiders it is magic and to us insiders...apparently it is magic that only we can perform and those other people can't. We still get paid. The weird thing is working across multiple fields, the social scientists were the most honest with what they didn't know and made no pretensions about it. But they won't write an essay bout it and post it to HN. The pretensions in this essay would have shot it down in their heads. I got another comment flagged for "snarky", but I know you are smart enough to see the inherent disrespect to other fields (and perhaps ignorance of them), in your post.