Someone is into OP or whoever is in gold, at least for now. Even if you don't find it cool, flatter to keep conversation and interest. It could be genuine as in finding interest in anything your crush is into interesting, or be just practical.
Also, people are attractive/interesting when they speak about stuff they're passionate about. Lots of people will listen to you blab on about something they know nothing about or care nothing about if you interest them in your delivery.
Or he constantly needs help with easy problems that a quick stackoverflow with 30k upvotes could fix. And he doesn't remember anything after you've showed him twice
I quit my company a week ago because as a company of 13 people the communication at all levels was so poor compared to my previous job working with over 20 and several departments. I’m not usually one to judge people’s degrees, but our boss has a biosciences and GIS degree and somehow wandered their way into software management and has the biggest superiority complex I’ve ever seen. These people plague the software development landscape so, my condolences for your CEO who is probably too busy looking at golf clubs and scheduling tee times while writing up an email about how hard executive management works to get back to you.
Ummm... excuse me. I think you mean "software engineering isn't cool." Which is also completely false. It is cool. It just makes for a shitty topic of conversation when the other person has no idea what you're talking about.
But what do I know? I'm a scotch swilling, cigar smoking, reasonably competent DIYer, Dad who would rather go outside or do anything that doesn't involve a computer in my spare time.
Oh, And my wife says she thinks I'm cool so I have that going for me.
I'm basically a code bitch. I'm loaned out to other teams to write scripts. They usually also want me to run them in addition to writing them. Typically with my own compute resources.