Most things stop being cool when they become mainstream. Tech used to be exclusive to a small group of people who understood it, the hacker counter culture grew

Most things stop being cool when they become mainstream. Tech used to be exclusive to a small group of people who understood it, the hacker counter culture grew from this and for a while gated entry into the tech community. Now tech careers are considered akin to any other good white collar job. You don’t have to have a specific personality to discover it or thrive within it. Its pedestrian now and has be very successfully commercialized.