WORSHIP OF THE ENGINEER

Words and a title inspired by WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE, WORSHIP OF THE WRITTEN WORD.

Words penned 2026-02-13 (or so)

Software development is a field full of obessive men. Typically of cis and white background. Identity forged around sacred, esoteric, and powerful knowledge: The Code. It's the basis of this industry. The Code has enabled the digitization of systemic power and for New Money to rise.

Nothing good has come from this.

The people of its industry desperately want their work to matter. They want their Code to be the Mona Lisa. Eternal in it's captive beauty. They want their Code to be a bridge. Lasting under it's constant load. They want their Code to be the Empire State Building. Tall, powerful, ever erect.

They want to be Her. They should have been Her. She took their right. They desperately want to replace her.

Margaret Elaine Hamilton. To the men of this industry, she stole the only moment software has ever been Engineering from them. They should have written that code. But they didn't. They should have sent people to the moon. But they didn't.

And they likely will never will.

What they do is not engineering, but it must. Because, it just has to be. Her code sent people to the moon. No. No. That's wrong to them. She is a woman. Woman don't get to do. CODE. sent people the moon.

It was the code, it was the code, it was the code. The men of The Code will repeat. Fixing the error they see in history. Thus, the first lie was born.

SOFTWARE SENT PEOPLE TO THE MOON.

Software sent people to the moon. Thus, all software might send people to the moon. Thus, all software is engineering that sends people to the moon. A lie repeated until it's culture.

In reality, sotware was one part of the massive engineering process. 400,000 people were employed under Project Apollo at it's peak. Billions had been spent. About 7 years passed before the first launched.

Our product cycles are 30 days. Our testing is a week (if it exist at all). Our releases are built on ritual. But yet, our identities are tired to Apollo. Because SOFTWARE SENT PEOPLE TO THE MOON.

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The Industry repeats this lie. The Industry repeats this lie. The Industry repeats this lie. The Industry repeats this lie. Until

REALITY DISTORTS.

Reality has been distorted. Every day. Billion. are forced to use software that isn't designed by and for them. Outsiders from their field and expertise come into their career and prescribe Tools. Tools that apease managers. Manager which do no work.

Worthless idiot scum. Worthless idiot scum. Worthless idiot scum.

Managers want Tools. Tools make stuff work better to the Managers. Things need to work better. Software makes tools. Thus, the second lie. Software makes things better.

Software can, under no circumstance, fix a problem. Software defines logic which can be executed by a machine. Software is an encoding of a process into a automated digital form. Thus, it does not solve, it encodes. Any problem that exist, software will simplely stratify. It may even make it worse by removing ill-defined human-oriented controlls that worked around issues in the process being model.

But it cannot do that. Software sent people to the moon. Software makes things better. But yet, when I look around me, I am entrapped in a hell that only software could have enabled.

But, the people of the Industry don't want to think about that. They are doing important work after all. Software sent people to the moon. Software makes things better. It has to. We are engineers. This is engineering. Engineering is the process.

ENGINEER IS A RITUAL.

We draft our unit test. We hold our meetings. We write our user stories. We test our ideas. We document. We design. We plan. We model. We problem solve. We abstract. We encapsulate. We theorize. We craf- No, we don't do that one. God. No.

Software sent people to the moon. So, we need to act like the people that sent other people to the moon. We must adopt their symbols their virtue. We copy their ritual. Etch it into every word we speak, every move we make, every project we start, every thought we have. Every.

But, this is just a facade. There is no depth. What engineering can happen in 30 days? What meaningful refinement and issues can be found in a week? We preform the rituals of engineering. Thus it must be engineering. It must be engineering. If it isn't then software didn't send people to the moon. Software isn't making things better. Software does nothing. We do nothing. You do nothing. I do nothing

We all just sit on a chair playing on a computer doing nothing as the world burns.

So we must be engineering, otherwise the truth would crush every desperate soul that thinks software sends people to the moon.

Everything must be dripped in the language. Frameworks bloat. Because engineering is big. Languages bloat. Because engineering is expansive. Time constraints shrink. Becuase engineering is challenging and rewarding. Ideas complexify. Because engineering is complex.

And we burn out. But we are engineering. We must make things better. Software cannot burn us out. Software must make us better. Software must send people to the moon. Software must be good. It must feel good. It must feel good. It must feel good. It must feel good.

Another lie.

WRITING SOFTWARE MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD.

When your brain is panicking, open your enditor. Writing software makes you feel good. When your world is burning, open your editor. Writing software makes you feel good. When your mind is full of imagination, open your editor. Writing software makes you feel good. When your life is devoid of any meaningful connection to another people because every day you are left drain from meaningless struggle with coworks that you never talk to outside of the company retreat cause you hardly have time even bother ordering a meal from grubhub, open your editor. Writing software makes you feel good.

But these bloated practice, these bloated projects, these bloated tools. They don't feel good. But they must exist. Because this is engineering. Software sent people ot the moon. Software can't make you feel bad, software makes things better.

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We just need Tools. The slurry. The pile of all human knowledge. All of the information that could be scrapped from the world that matters. People with the luxury of spending copious amounts of time posting causally online. Processed, analyzed, categorized.

This is the ultimate tool. Knowledge after all is just logic. And logic is now software. Thus, knowledge is just software. By writing software you have all of knowledge. By automating that, you can do anything.

Prompts. Fill the box out. Your insight turns into knowledge. Knowledge into software. Writing software feels good. But, for the men of the Industry this isn't enough. If anyone can fill out the box, how can it be engineering. We can't have her sending people to the moon. Sending people to the moon cannot be simple. Making things better canno be simple. No. This isn't simple.

Prompt engineering. Agent engineering. Design engineering. Test engineering. Engineering. Engineering. Engineering. Egineering. Engineering. Engineering. Engineering. Engineering. Egineering.

THE DEATH OF AN ENGINEER AT THE ALTER OF A FALSE GOD.

By the time a person reach this point, they are far gone. Effectively dead. If they've drank down the lies of the men stirring us down this dark path, there may be no recovery until they crash down on their own. And even then. The lies may still grip them.

They've become addicted to a false reality amplified by a false god. It's been weird watching who falls for LLMs. It seems like the more a person, usually a man, worships the value of engineering, the worse they fall for it. As if the signals replaced the praxis. It's perplexing.

But in the context of worshiping the abstract idea of engineering and the lies the software industry has built it make sense. It was never about sending people to the moon. It was never about building structures that last. It was never about builting. It was about the ritual. It was about feelings. It was about coping. It was a bout vibes.

The history of computing is one full of men removing woman. Of frat boys turned business sharks exposed as child sex preditors. The image of this place is a lie. Just look at the inengineering of web development. We all come to believe that just cause you prop up a megacorporation, that makes you the same as people that worked on Apollo and achieved the highest honor of the sci-fi dream: actually sending people to the moon.

We took a beautful craft, and killed it. All because some men saw a woman write code to send people to the moon and thought: SOFTWARE SENT PEOPLE TO THE MOON. Now, the false gods being sold are sinking their fangs into people. Organization "empowering" people into The Lies, now sell them deskilling machines.

The excuse people make are pathetic. They want to feel good. They are burnt out. They need to stop. But they wont. SOFTWARE MUST MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD. SOFTWARE MAKES THINGS BETTER. SOFTWARE SENT PEOPLE TO THE MOON.

They'll learn. The hard way. I dread to see how people so used to frictionless previldge handle a crashout.

This field was built on the dream of sending people to the moon. However, under the distorted reality, we are an industry doom to build nothing but Therac-25s. Because.

SOFTWARE DOES NOT SEND PEOPLE TO THE MOON

SOFTWARE DOES NOT MAKE THINGS BETTER

WRITING SOFTWARE DOES NOT MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD

SOFTWARE WILL NOT FIX YOU.
IT WILL NOT FIX ME.
IT WILL NOT FIX US.
IT CANNOT FIX THINGS.

A COMPUTER CAN NEVER LIVE,
THUS IT MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO CONTROL LIFE.