Well, that's a bit different. Laziness is a virtue in our field in ways that it is not in other fields. Math is a good example. Mathematicians are even more lazy than programmers. That's how they end up with shorter proofs than our programs and end up able to work lying down as well as just sitting on a computer.
This feels like cope; ignoring that there are multiple kinds of “lazy.”
There’s the kind that focuses on simplicity and avoiding unnecessary work to achieve the same goal (the good kind); and there’s the kind that just ignores necessary work and drags out the process delaying the goal (the bad kind).
There are plenty of programmers, and machinists, in both camps. Many programmers actually are lazy knuckleheads in the worst sense of the word - and, according to recent researchers, 10% of programmers self-admit to doing nothing at their jobs.
