> The field of software engineering is dominated by the smart people that do something not because they have to but out of curiosity.

Emphasis mine.

We wish. I think the state of tech pretty conclusively demonstrates those people aren’t the ones who dominate. Money and power hungry tech bros do, which is why everything is shit and exploitative.

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hvb2 a day ago | parent [-]

The tech bros are the ones that control the companies, not the field of software engineering.

	▲	latexr a day ago \| parent [-]
		They’re both. There are finance tech bros “idea guys” whose aim is to be at the top of the company, and other tech bros who got into programming for the high salary and clout of being able to say they work at or are ex-employees of Facebook, or Google, or whatever. The shit and exploitation don’t build themselves.