Douglas MacMillan for Bloomberg Businessweek:
Tech’s latest boom has generated a new, more testosterone-fueled breed of coder. Sure, the job still requires enormous brainpower, but today’s engineers are drawn from diverse backgrounds, and many eschew the laboratory intellectualism that prevailed when semiconductors ruled Silicon Valley. “I don’t need to wear a pocket protector to be a programmer,” says John Manoogian III, a software engineer and entrepreneur.At some startups the pendulum has swung so far in the other direction that it’s given rise to a new “title”: brogrammer.
Let’s get one thing straight: If you unironically self-identify as a “brogrammer,” you’re a complete douchebag. Grow up.