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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.