As a technical person, I did not feel patronized by the article. My non-technical wife forwarded it to me, and she also did not feel patronized by the article. If he said "you're too stupid to understand", then, yeah, that'd be patronizing.

I'll just conclude this way- when I used to sit in IDA Pro all day reverse engineering malware, I didn't expect to carry on a conversation with a perfect stranger talking at length about the intricacies of static and dynamic analysis. I have myself made similar comments about how my job involves staring at thousands of lines of assembly code and that would probably be mindnumbingly boring for them. We both have a laugh. Sometimes they do have an interest, and I can make it sound really interesting by focusing on the outcomes of the work rather than the toil and frankly mindnumbing grind; but other times, they say, yea, that sounds crazy, and we move on.

Nobody ever felt insulted- it's as they say "different strokes for different folks." I have had folks in other fields say similar things to me about how I would find the details of their work boring. A lot of times I am intrigued and hold a conversation to learn more, other times I agree and move on. At no point am I offended or feel patronized, though, because I am confident that if I truly cared I could learn more myself or ask questions.