In this interview, Alan Kay laments about the ‘pop culture’ in computer science. Came across an article that shares a similar idea. Reading these brought to mind a prophecy that I read in an ancient scroll:

The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don’t master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.

Though superficially different, the three links above are, in fact, beads on a single thread.