Are You a Blue Collar or White Collar Developer?

The most interesting thing about this parable is that no one seemed to have been "writing code" before having gone to school to "learn" it.

I'm not a programmer because of my CS degree, I'm a programmer because I've been programming, learning to program, and continue to learn to program, for nearly 75% of my life, only half of that professionally.

A good engineering team needs CS people to be the "architecture astronauts" and pure engineers to keep them grounded and make sure something actually ships. Too many CS guys and you ship something needlessly complicated far too late; too many engineers and you ship spaghetti code that doesn't scale, because they're focused on results rather than architecture.

The article made it seem (IMHO) that the different personalities were completely distinct. I'd have to disagree with that point, having majored in CS while at college, but I feel like I'm slightly more "blue collar" than "white collar". I think you can definitely have bits of both personalities. Just my 2 cents.