Some might assume I'd say techbros, and while I do despise them for sure, at a personal level I'm especially put off by the cryptobro subvariety of techbro. Talking to them, offline and in person, feels like talking to them online. They're that online. They're that cognitively insulated. Everything to them is transactional. The person they're talking to only exists as a mark or an obstacle to their ongoing acquisition and trade of planet burning internet tokens. I see it in their eyes. I see the artificial and crude predatory switch-flipping when it's clear that someone they're talking to isn't having it, in much the same way that high level Scientologist registers someone as "fair game" and goes hunter-killer on them. It's creepy for me at a deeply personal level.
I mean, increasingly all of them...
Techpeople who see the problems but earnestly think the solution is algorithmic improvement have to be up there but if I had to pick a worst...
... Journos. Particually liberal journalists. I've come into a depressing amount of contact with them and they're awful, largely un-selfaware, petty, smug, and largely useless in the extreme. I'm not sure I've ever met someone who made a real living from that line of work that I didn't think was simply a liar or an idiot, and often both. This probably a bit 'trust me bro' but it's late I've had a couple, and I need to sleep.
Liberal journalists really, really want an audience of millions to know about the exquisite and culturally significant authentic cuisine they enjoyed last weekend with their charming ethnically interesting friend, with itemized details about what coffee/wine was being served, and they only reluctantly tie a current event to it, spread out every few paragraphs. :maybe-later-kiddo: