first "code ninjas" now "street fighting" engineers and "martial art" engineers? really? I feel like these monikers are getting a little silly especially since you'd never see the reverse.
Excellent point!
Competitive TKD practitioner: "Approaching this match, aware my opponent was a highly-ranked veteran competitor, I asked myself: what would a techbro do?"
Human cross-domain capabilities are amazing.
Meyer would evaluate a series of varying weights of golden hammers. Try to defensive code all possible cases. Find a decisive insight into a problem.
And Polish sabre school would cut off the angles until the solution is all that remains possible. Feint all sorts of evil cases for testing.
Now the fun part is that basic principles are the same.
You write code that works and does what is required or you are not a programmer.
You win swordfights or you're dead.
Both of the swordmasters worked from first principles...
Another analogy would be someone talking about their music like (a) code.
Which is good and bad, in a society in which he can do almost anything he wants, and almost no one will tell him no.