Comment by Xirdus
6 hours ago
I just want to point out this is not a royal "we". It's a regular "we". Royal "we" is when you say "we" but mean a singular person, yourself. Here, the author does actually mean multiple people beyond themselves - like you pointed out, they claim to speak for all software engineers.
No, that is exactly GP's complaint. Their whole point is that OP has written things like "we throw everything at a model and hope it gives us what we imagined, without ever having to understand how any of it actually works" when the honest statement would be "I throw everything at a model and hope it gives me what I imagined, without ever having to understand how any of it actually works".
Yes I understand the complaint. It's just that "royal we" means something else.
I'm pretty sure the author intended it as a regular "we".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosism
the wicked we