[LeonigMig]

more like two different ways of approaching a problem which crop up quite often designing socio-technical systems

it does puzzle me how programmer culture is to over generalise as if its some epiphany or fundamental principle

in fact this blog just diagnoses two common viewpoints or perspectives

perhaps its just a style thing to get engagement with a blog

[misternugget]

Author here. Yeah, that’s fair, it is over-generalizing (and I even admit to that in the post).

I do think there might be some value (insight?) into trying to generalise things sometimes. In this case it’s me trying to split all software engineers along a single axis and seeing whether it fits. I don’t think it’s a neat split, but the more I think about it the more I think I could, if pressed, sort a lot of engineers into one of these two buckets. Not at all times, but sometimes.

Generally speaking: over-generalisation can be lazy and it was in this case — I write these posts very quickly, as a braindump, and you shouldn’t read too much into it, except that it might be food (snack?) for thought.