Possibly apropos of nothing, but I just got back from a tech conference, and ... talking to vendors and hiring folks was odd. Whenever asked "what do you do?",

Possibly apropos of nothing, but I just got back from a tech conference, and ... talking to vendors and hiring folks was odd. Whenever asked "what do you do?", even after a few times, I still... paused. I heard plenty of folks saying "I do full stack development" and then struggle to communicate basic ideas and tech stuff (not everyone, but more than a couple times). And yeah, i get it, we all start some place, and no one is perfect, but... I don't want to be using the same words as people who demonstrably struggle with some basics. But that meant that I struggled with quick 5 second definer intro statements. More interesting, I found, was on 3 separate occasions today when speaking with some tech vendors, they all mentioned "file descriptors". "When installing, you gotta make sure you up your default file descriptors - system defaults won't work". A MySQL tuning guy said "almost no one ever has enough, and almost no one knows about these - you need 60000 minimum, but distros usually default to 1024". And I nodded, because I've hit that issue many times in the last 20+ years, and now recognize symptoms and that's now in my diagnostic bag. "Senior dev" seems to mean 3+ years of work, and "full stack" seems to mean they know "npm install" and have built create-react-app samples. (I'm tired and cynical, I know).