And here I was convinced that they’re burritos!

I will say that explaining functors to my coworkers was always much simpler, and then naturally led to monads

I suspect all branches of tech have their rite of passage.

For haskellers, it is writing a monad tutorial

For javascripters, it is writing a framework

For make-stuff-with-LLM people, it is producing a diagram explaining your code generation factory

... and so on