So I guess it is lost to history, but how did a military cynicism sneak into programming? And judging from the origin stories posted it came from failed militar

So I guess it is lost to history, but how did a military cynicism sneak into programming? And judging from the origin stories posted it came from failed military campaigns and then was somehow spread to the broader programming community through MIT. There’s a few steps there missing. But on the other hand, a lot of posters in TFA writes “if you knew you knew”, and maybe most people who spread this didn’t know. I mean, I’ve used it without a second thought plenty of times just because. It might be as simple as an ex military professor writing it and students picking it up as “this is how we talk” with basically no one knowing what they are talking about.