_Can't_ anyone program? A few hundred of my classmates spent a couple quarters casually learning C++ in high school from a teacher barely scraping together the

_Can't_ anyone program? A few hundred of my classmates spent a couple quarters casually learning C++ in high school from a teacher barely scraping together the lessons a day before she taught them, and that was enough of a kickstart that most of us are some kind of programmer by trade, many of us in FAANG. Sure it takes a little time to learn, you could probably short-circuit that process with more effort, and there are greater heights to be achieved with sufficient dedication, but the majority of programming just isn't that difficult. Just about anyone _could_ do it with a little effort. That's also ignoring the compounding effects of education. People get college degrees in graphic design, but a couple of those years are shared between majors, some sizeable fraction of the unique couple years of training are dedicated to learning how to _efficiently_ perform certain tasks, and some other sizeable fraction is UI/UX knowledge that's somewhat duplicated in other fields. Is there really that much hubris in saying that some kinds of relatedly skilled professionals might only need to put in a little effort to equate to the ~<1yrs of unique effort obtained in a graphic design degree, especially when the professional in question doesn't need to use the entire degree and especially when learning is moderately accelerated by having learned other tangential things to hang the new knowledge on? Maybe yes, but if so I don't think it's obvious enough to warrant a single-line dismissal.