Yeah, I've always been that "annoying math guy" for pretty much my entire career.

This has always irritated me, because I'm not entirely sure what engineers feel that they bring to the table over a high school kid who bought one of those "learn C++" books. I always thought the value-add was supposed to be a better understanding of the theory and computer science and internals of how computers work, but that was evidently wrong.

I've noticed that the "software engineers bragging about not knowing any math" trend appears to be dying, so that's cool, but now it has been replaced with the even more depressing "software engineers don't need to even need to know how to code anymore because you can just ask Claude Code to do it".