alt Hacker NewsLet me help you understand.
If there was a post on HN that said "I often see people wearing socks over their pants, and this is why you shouldn't wear your socks over your pants", someone might observe "is this a thing? I don't think this is common". Invariably this comment is going to self-select for the extremely uncommon person who wears socks over their pants who will observe that of course, everyone wears socks over their pants.
When people write "people often" or "people often ask" types of blog posts, 99.99% of the time they are basically just projecting their own learning, beliefs, etc. These discussions seldom actually exist, it's super common, etc. That isn't indicative of anything.
It reminds me of this great piece - https://theonion.com/sociologist-considers-own-behavior-indi...
I still don't understand. Your own "evidence" is completely anecdotal.
I and others (including the author of this post) have seen engineers who don't understand what the different components of the "agent system" (as TFA calls it) are, or what they are responsible for. So it's not "projecting their own learning", this actually does happen. Is it so hard for you to believe engineers, especially junior engineers, have a bit of a mess in their heads about how some things work, and need explanation?
If our anecdotal experiences are silly, then so is yours.