This article addresses a very particular person who definitely does exist. Expert beginners are absolutely a thing and things have only gotten worse with the "H

This article addresses a very particular person who definitely does exist. Expert beginners are absolutely a thing and things have only gotten worse with the "HIRE EVERYBODY! NO TRAINING REQUIRED" approach to hiring a lot of shops moved to. I had not experienced it until the past year. If this article does not resonate, if you have not worked with one, count yourself lucky. I am regularly astounded by the lack of extremely basic skills I have seen in the places I have worked recently. For the love of god, just read a single book or take a single class on software development. People argue: "Well, most shops don't really need good developers." I call BS on this. Every place I have worked at are trying to make money and keep the team from getting canned, and a bad developer will take you two steps back for every one step forward. There was a person at my last job, nobody knew why they kept him around. He had a good 10 years on most of the team, but his code was easily the lowest quality, and he constantly fought with the rest of the team around attempts to improve code quality. We hated him. He was totally stale and had given up on self improvement. We wanted him GONE. What happened? Most of the team quit and he is still there.