There was a topic on rude programmers the other day and it got me thinking about all this labeling being the cause. VCs want to manipulate programmers, make the

There was a topic on rude programmers the other day and it got me thinking about all this labeling being the cause. VCs want to manipulate programmers, make them rate each other on artificial meaningless scale, call each other names, they even find new ways for programmers to offend each other, like that blob programmer thingy PG thought of. There is clearly an agenda. Any programmer is capable of mastering anything in the field and be just as good as the best of the best. And it is very obvious that many tasks can be done much faster by someone with the specific skills these tasks require. It is also obvious that some people have a CS/CE degree and a broad spectrum of skills that are useful for many tasks and some acquired special skills on how to approach new unfamiliar problems more quickly by having and expecting to deal with a lot of different ones. And those things do not make a programmer into a 10x programmer or a blob programmer or whatever, just more or less adapted to some specific tasks.