The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace

I thought this was very well done and hilarious.<p>However, I&#x27;m not sure how I feel about the particular emphasis on mocking people who lift and take protein supplements. It&#x27;s definitely obnoxious when people define themselves by the fact that they lift, but at the same time, almost everyone I know who exhibits some the &quot;alpha&quot; behaviors described in this article w&#x2F;r&#x2F;t working out (like showing up to work in gym clothes) is not doing so in a deliberately show-offy way. They just like working out. If anything, in my experience people who do things like that tend to have serious confidence issues and being &quot;swole&quot; helps them with that.<p>I know it&#x27;s just a joke, just seems like a stereotype that&#x27;s very erroneous to me. And for the record, I do not lift and probably never will. I&#x27;ve always been a more run&#x2F;bike&#x2F;swim type of person, although I should probably exercise more in general.

&gt;Name-drop as many of the latest software frameworks and technologies as possible throughout your rant. Use words like big data, cloud, and scalability. Mention test-driven development at least three to four times.<p>If we don&#x27;t immediately adopt agile scrum kanban test-driven development processes there is no way we can scale to harness the power of big data analytics using our cloud-based deep machine learning artificial intelligence neural networks for quantum computing the internet of things. Furthermore, I&#x27;m rewriting the whole architecture in Vanilla JS on the front end, ReactJS on the back end, and using Docker containers to achieve a more scalable continuous integration work flow optimization process for our test-driven development integrations in the cloud using the legacy waterfall methodology.<p>Any questions? No? Good, now get back to work.

The thing that&#x27;s really changed in this business is that coding went from being about constantly solving things that had never been done before, to work where the solutions are about doing things the &quot;right&quot; way.<p>For decades the field of technology was brand new. Nothing had been done before. Everything was about building something from nothing. It used to take a tremendous amount of creative brainpower and unique perspectives on problem solving to get things done.<p>Now it&#x27;s all about solved problems.<p>People who thrive doing creative, complex problem solving have to look at the world with the eyes of an outsider. They need to see things differently to hit on the right solutions quickly. They&#x27;re outsiders - geeks, on the fringes of society. So coding was a geek&#x27;s world.<p>But now tech has matured. The majority of the work is about ripping out the creative hacker madness of the previous generation and replacing it with things that are the &quot;right&quot; way. The work of coding (for the web at least) is not about solving for unknowns anymore.<p>You take away the creative thinking, you don&#x27;t need outsiders. The work becomes simpler and more accessible to the average Joe. People who just want a job that pays well, who are motivated by routine and doing things the &quot;right&quot; way. Who are happy to spend all day gutting a codebase to replace it with boring well trodden solutions.<p>The new replacement coders aren&#x27;t motivated by the creative satisfaction of building things from nothing. Their motivations are completely different. Things like money, like social status. These are the guys who are thriving in the business now. For those of us who like building things and creative problem solving, our time here is done. It&#x27;s a bro&#x27;s world now.

when i graduated from university, law was the coolest profession--there were tv shows about them and they got paid a lot. I don&#x27;t know where cs grad&#x2F;programmer was on this list but definitely not in the top 10 (maybe around 5,630 or so). In any event, during that time, if you were a senior at a top university with a 3.8 in Elizabethan Poetry but no definite career goal, people would reflexively say &quot;you should go to law school&quot;<p>A decade or so later, it seemed to shift to investment bankers. (And again, pretty sure programmer was nowhere in the top 5,000)<p>articles like this make me wonder whether in fact programmer is the new cool job?

Couldn&#x27;t tell if joking after reading the bit about walking out when you see they don&#x27;t use git ^_^

Gone is the day of the humble 90&#x27;s engineer. A new era has started...<p>The dawn of the Brogrammer.<p>Software engineering culture is shifting. Nice article, sadly have seen it fairly often.

Somehow I interact with other people that they always have the feeling they owe me something. Sometimes this goes so far, that people even feel bad to ask me when I owe them something. Also, my GF told me, I always seem kinda bugged out when working.<p>Both is kinda funny, because I&#x27;m mostly a chill guy. But it kept many people from bothering me at work...

I brought my Cherry MX to work...

Great Satire! But, I don&#x27;t see too many of this exact stereotype around, especially the weight lifting type. I mean I see little bits of these behaviors in other people, but not all wrapped in 1 person.