> the same kind of engineer
Who?
There are millions of software engineers around the world. It's quite likely that they have a few different opinions and point of views!
But it is written there, and GP was quite specific:
>the same kind of engineer, who throughout my career have constantly bitched and moaned about team meetings, agile ceremonies, issue trackers, backlogs, slack, emails, design reviews, and anything else that disrupted the hours of coding "flow state" they claimed as their most essential and sacred activity
Seems pretty clear to me.
https://hn.algolia.com/ - search for "actual work" This has long been a topic on HN.