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> Suggesting that what the latter do is not "tech" is condescension and snobbery, the same kind that machine code developers have had towards assembly developers, and C developers have had towards C++ developers, and Java developers have had towards web developers.

I wouldn't put it in the past tense! Engineers love snobbery,[1] it's one of our favorite things. But, as you say, it's rarely productive.

[1] See, e.g., any discussion of college majors on HN.



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