danluu, 8 months ago

I wonder why programming culture is (on average) so enamoured with smartness over reasonableness.

It's particularly striking if you hang out with people who have the opposite values (e.g., trades, which, on average, strongly value reasonableness over smartness). By contrast, programming culture seems quite ridiculous?

For example, valuing "very smart" complex stuff that add little value (often negative value) over simple solutions that add a lot of value, e.g., https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1129519032783200256.