I can't reply to your most recent response, so I'm replying here instead. You have gone from saying - "you actually have to be smart to be a good developer",

I can't reply to your most recent response, so I'm replying here instead. You have gone from saying - "you actually have to be smart to be a good developer", to - "Incompetent people sliding by is hardly limited to programming", to - "I have no idea how someone totally incompetent could break through". The original statement was not "totally incompetent people can break through". The original statement was "Are developers the new blue-collar workers?" And your response assumes that blue-collar workers are not smart. In fact, it seems like you think blue collar workers are "totally incompetent" since you created an equivalency between "blue collar workers", "not smart", then "incompetent", and lastly "totally incompetent." That is incredibly ignorant and prejudiced.