# Is the tech industry beginning to get a bad rep

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**Category:** Industry & Culture\
**Tags:** opinions, industry, culture\
**Created:** [23 July 2020 13:42 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/is-the-tech-industry-beginning-to-get-a-bad-rep/1135 "2020-07-23T13:42:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [24 July 2020 15:51 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/is-the-tech-industry-beginning-to-get-a-bad-rep/1135/6 "2020-07-24T15:51:39Z")

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> [@dimitarvp](#):
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> And a lot of younger people simply never think about it and kind of just take stuff like 4G internet and smartphones for granted (and on an instinctive level to them this is like magic and not technology, I’d bet).

Even techies can use magical/occult metaphors when dealing with this stuff. Have you ever seen code with comments marking it as “black magic” or “heavy wizardry”? I have.

But I’ve also been known to occasionally describe particularly nasty code-bases as “Lovecraftian”; to understand them too deeply is to risk psychosis.

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