You're Not Special, You're Lucky

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 12:49:58 -0400

Popular middlebrow programming influencer and tech industry shill Gergely Orosz sure knows how to play to his audience. His recent apologia for churn on LinkedIn suggests that you, dear software engineer, are afforded excellent compensation and perks relative to other engineering fields because you possess the rare and valuable ability to keep up with technology’s rapid pace of change.

Of course an audience of software engineers will love to be told that they are special. All this crazy hustle to keep up with the digital Joneses is proof that we actually deserve all this money. It’s an inherent virtue within in us that makes us resilient and clever enough to remain the vanguard of the field. We just have the right stuff. Other types of engineers? They ain’t got it.

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You're Not Special, You're Lucky