> You see a lot of talk about moneyball, but for some reason people are less excited about… trainingball? Practiceball? Whatever you want to call taking people

> You see a lot of talk about moneyball, but for some reason people are less excited about… trainingball? Practiceball? Whatever you want to call taking people who aren't “the best” and teaching them how to be “the best”. I think this is the biggest insight in the article, and the one that's gotten the least traction, both here in this thread and in SWE culture more broadly. This industry doesn't have a clear way to transmit knowledge and practices, and it DEFINITELY doesn't have a way to do so at scale. HN will debate about interviews (no wait! take-home tests! no wait! ..) all day long, but when it comes to how to make someone a senior SWE, we don't have anything other than 1) set up your dev environment (ideally the same way as I did) 2) dive in for a couple years.