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Software engineers (myself included) love thinking that they so smart that they follow other fields up to the latest research.

(It doesn't mean that we're necessarily wrong though).

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Its not limited to software engineers. Theres no shortage of blowhards that conflate knowing and understanding.

Yep - illusion of explanatory depth: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3062901/

My background is in biology (PhD, Biophysics) but I do software engineering. Few SWEs who follow biology have any clue or understanding, and easily get fooled by bio papers.

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