Techbro was originally used to describe the type of men who made it difficult for women in tech, then somewhere along the line the general public realized the same dudes were also making it difficult for lots if people in lots of places.

If tech folks never actually acted like frat bros, the bro appellation never would have happened. I've worked in offices with Kegs cor crissakes.

'nerds taking over the world' no it was finance with techbros taking over the world. If nerds had taken over there would be a lot more open source and we wouldn't all be familiar with the word 'enshitiffication'.

One of the most famous techbros wants people to print out code and has trouble running a python script.

E: that these fucks can play with their venture capital shit while Real Tech Nerds(tm, do not steal!) like Foone have to ask for donations is pretty terrible. (Foone is a fun account to follow if you like somebody who takes old hardware and stuff apart in fun ways).

E: related skeet "1980s techies: Imagine a World Wide Web where all human knowledge can be shared and accessed by everyone. 2020s techbros: We will steal every word you’ve ever shared, every artwork you’ve ever displayed, lock them away in datasets without your permission, then sell them all back to you, but shite."

"What would the reaction be?" It would be different. It would be far more negative. Do you know why it would be more negative? Because women in tech do not hold power in tech. They do not hold power in the world. A misogynistic name for that category of people would be punching down.

By contrast, "techbro" is acceptable because we know who's in power right now, and it's punching up.

HTH

Imagine being richer than god and still being mad about how nerds were treated in 80s teen movies.

What if we used different words in a different context? Wouldn't the meaning change? Checkmate atheists

You think I hate nerds? Ha ha, fuck you. If I did hate nerds, I could never do the kind of damage to the reputation of the geek subculture that Paul Graham and his like-minded cohorts have.

Come on out and nerd fight me, posers. I will outnerd you. I will eat you for breakfast. You ain't got shit on me. Give me six lines written by the hand of the most pedantic bluecheck and I will pedantically point out seven fallacies in them, write a filk song about it and arrange it to chiptune.

Yet somehow people don't seem to hate me for being a nerd. I think I'm fairly popular and most people react to my nerdy interests positively, or at worst indifferently. If it sounds like I'm bragging, I'm not saying I'm some super cool gigachad, but that anyone is compared to these losers.

People don't hate techbros for being nerds, or men for that matter. If I (a nerdy man) am the one who supposedly hates nerds and men, why are you the one implying that the faults I criticise techbros for are innate to nerds and men?

Oh well, we all know the real reason techbros hate leftists is that we make so much better art, have better sex, do better science and are oh so resentably attractive.

It's almost like they're missing the point that techbros are misogynists and it describes a sexist mindset.

The term techbro specifically refers to someone with a business/finance background who acts like they have tech knowledge without actually having any tech knowledge.

Haha “as one insider told me (who is not me)”

Jason isn’t even a tech bro, he’s just a weird rich dork

Shit like this is why I hate nerds. (Note: am nerd, by any sensible measure.)

so you can at once insult nerds, men, and fascists, what's not to love

Image description: a series of three tweets by blue-checks.

Tweet from suzuha:

"techbro" is just the reemergence of thinking it's cool to hate nerds, mixed in with a bunch of resentment from watching the last 20 years of nerds taking over the world

Reply by Paul Graham:

It's more a way to hate men.

Reply by jason:

As one insider told me (who is not me): 'imagine an equally sexist name was given to, say, female pundits and journalists' ... what would the reaction be?'

Anyway if any of you actually do hate techbros for being nerds and wanna give a fuck you to computer geeks in general and tech enterpreneurs in particular, I have an evil plan for you.

Found the Uber for software development. Create an app to connect customers with freelance developers (particularly in lower income countries) and crucially, make sure the developers are responsible for their own infrastructure. Have the devs shoulder the ever-growing burden of cloud bills and server maintenance, minimize your own role except as a middleman and encourage a race to the bottom between the people doing the actual work. Use your VC money on lawyers, manipulative user interface development, marketing and sabotaging your competition.

Congratulations, you will have accelerated the inevitable devaluation of the computer programming profession and stripped it of its perceived prestige. You will have fucked over the majority of software developers and IT operations people. You might even break the pretension that finance bros owe their wealth to their skill with computing technology. You will hoist some "disruptors" by their own petard, hit a bunch of people for collateral damage and probably make a lot of money for bigger fish capitalists.

Do not actually do this, or I hope one day you will be treated like the pestilent leech you are. Consider becoming a communist instead.

Ah, good old TPOT, and the teenage-wisdom “you just don’t like hearing the truth” takes. Such elevation, blessed be the fucking clowns.

(Extreme double-lol at paulie coming in hot there)

what does the dystopia maker peddle these days now that the nfts and crypto are failing?

Its almost as if a guy in STEM and a techbro are not synonymous

Two wrongs don't make a right.

This thread is using "techbro" to refer to workers way too much, there's an upvoted post on here about how to take away the average working class tech worker's job. You guys really think OpenAI is going to outsource to the gig economy? Uber for tech is only going to punish the least well paid devs, the generic webdevs just making websites for a small business. OpenAI isn't going to let randos fuck around in their codebase.

A lot of software devs and tech workers are marginalised, neurodivergent or otherwise socially disadvantaged. Too many people in this thread are completely ignoring any kind of intersectionality just because they're men.

Elon Musk isn't a tech worker, he's a tech CEO. Sam Altman isn't a tech work, he's a tech CEO. Sundar Pichai, Susan Wojcicki, Jen-Hsun Huang. All CEOs not tech workers.

The real "techbros" are all business people in an actual position of power, not the introverted QA tester just trying to get through the day. It's disheartening to see so much class division, when your local tech worker is more likely to be an ally than a "techbro".

In fact Software Devs are overwhelmingly Democrat (83.9%), it's up there with Artists (85.9%) and Scientists (88.4%) https://www.zippia.com/advice/democratic-vs-republican-jobs/