Well, check out the post date. That's the first recorded instance of that story, and it has undergone metamorphosis, since. People substitute job titles. The common theme is that the first is practice, and the second, theory.

This was in the early-ish days of OOP, when people were saying that, to design software, you were to "write a story" on how you want it to go. The nouns were objects, the modifiers, functions, and the verbs, program flow (or something like that. I never used it, as I thought it was silly).

That kind of thing was very attractive to upper managers, who dreamed of firing all the filthy engineers, and writing the code, themselves.

Sort of like now, with vibe-coding.

> plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

> That kind of thing was very attractive to upper managers, who dreamed of firing all the filthy engineers, and writing the code, themselves.

I thought managers typically feel "above" writing code themselves. :-)