The author missed one key motivation: giant fucking ego. I don’t know why every damn software engineer thinks they are gods gift and can derive anything from fi

The author missed one key motivation: giant fucking ego. I don’t know why every damn software engineer thinks they are gods gift and can derive anything from first principles. The OP hinted at it with the physicist XKCD but I think it is far more dominant in software because the payouts for mediocrity are just astronomical.