Angry Engineers Are Paying My Bills

How a viral article is making me thousands of dollars

David Goudet
5 min readDec 26, 2023

Every engineer possesses a remarkable obsession with always being right.

Some engineers can be challenging people to work with, and this can be quite exhausting.

Before you rush to the comments section to complain (I can almost see you typing), I should mention that I, too, am an engineer.

One of my articles (This is Why I Didn’t Accept You as a Senior Software Engineer) went viral a couple of weeks ago. It got around 100k visits in the last 2 weeks and I’ve been reading the most absurd comments on it:

I’m the least communist person I know, and I don’t understand how my relationship with the Department of State could be seen as something communist, but I guess some people have too much free time and a lot of conspiracy theories.

Some other comments:

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David Goudet

Senior Software Engineer from Venezuela living in Madrid. Top Writer in AI and Technology. Singularity University/US Dept of State alumni.