Do other careers have such a vast gap between the platonic ideal and the actual lived experience? The way most people talk about software engineering, you'd think they were some kind of open-source warrior building entire applications from scratch when really they're on the Cancel Prime Membership Button Obfuscation Enablement team at Amazon.
I think people like to role-play doing the job before it was professionalized because then it sounds less like you're a cog in a machine.
I think people like to role-play doing the job before it was professionalized because then it sounds less like you're a cog in a machine.