"Tech people will never have taste": the tech-bro culture debate flares up again
nptacek · x · 2026-10-13
mcdermot argued tech people will never have taste because they didn't spend their formative years discovering bands, flipping magazines and reading non-required books — taste is cultivated over a lifetime. sporadica fired back that tech twitter has demonized "tech bros" so much that people assume they didn't listen to music or read books as kids. nptacek boosted the spat. A典型 AI/tech-culture argument with real opinion clash and shareability.
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