> One thing I have observed is that in each silo, there are certain programmers who assume they are the only sane group in the industry. They aren't interested in what problems the other siloes are solving and they assume any solution "over there" they don't understand is bad / decadent / crazy

A lot of coders have realized there's social credit in trashing other programmers. I regularly see comments from people claiming to have a singular custodial spirit for their craft, unrivaled by their peers. There's obviously advantages to telling people that everyone else is holding it wrong.

Then their advice is

- Some niche trick that's completely irrelevant to most situations

- Something that sounds obvious and uncontroversial, but is so broad and vague that it's not even worth arguing about.

And I realize the irony of me making this comment. But I wish we'd get over this phase where everyone thinks they're an expert, and that every bad codebase or slow app was the result of someone who didn't care. I have yet to work with someone who didn't care about their code.

> But I wish we'd get over this phase where everyone thinks they're an expert, and that every bad codebase or slow app was the result of someone who didn't care.

I can only speak to my own experience, but it’s been this way for the entire 18 years I’ve been doing this professionally and I can’t see it stopping anytime soon.

I just ignore it and write off people who openly think that way. It shows a lack of experience and empathy.