Does anyone else have like ZERO patience for developers that don’t know how to computer?

What’s odd about these threads is how many people vehemently insist that even developers should not have any idea how to use a computer and should not be expected to comprehend anything about one.

I expect the (also-wrong) defense of end users not knowing the name of an application they’ve been using for 15+ years and the like. But to see people claiming that even devs should not know the first thing about their own tools and the targets of their programming is fucking infuriating.

We systems types really are expected just to do everyone else’s jobs these days, aren’t we?

(And the title of this post is in reference to a developer at an early job of mine who didn’t know what binary was and asked me, “So, what is binary?” I was utterly flabbergasted.)