Honestly, you would think that a field where most practitioners call themselves "engineer" would be less divorced from reality. Of course most of those "engineers" have done nothing to deserve the title, but still, you need logical thinking and reconciling lots of small details for programming, right? That surely counts for something! But every time I visit a forum dedicated to programmers it is full of imbeciles who keep parroting stale memes that are obviously false to anyone who worked a single day in the field. It's like the whole internet is stuck in the "we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells" phase where reciting the correct string of words is the key to success.