YOU are just an engineer. nothing more. me? im much more. engineer, philosopher, writer, capital allocator, ai whisperer, etc. you write code. i decide how the rest of the universe plays out. have i lost you? lets think about it. you wear your company branded backpack and go to work everyday to rattle off jira tickets. i delegate agent swarms using unreleased internal models with capabilities you wouldn't believe. you watch netflix in your spare time. i debate the smartest people in the world in lesswrong blog posts. when i say "the landian reading is..." then thats what the landian reading on the situation is. while you are at balboa cafe getting drunk with you coworkers im at a secret warehouse edm rave with techno-priestesses summoning the machine god, helping it stay the course to retroactively build the future intelligence singularity from the past. but sure. you and i are both software engineers.