I have seen plenty of bad code monkeys who had high grades, the idea that the current 'high standards' give us better programmers is unfounded. The issue is th

I have seen plenty of bad code monkeys who had high grades, the idea that the current 'high standards' give us better programmers is unfounded. The issue is that modifying a Wordpress theme is just as much of a job as optimizing a low level 3D rendering pipeline or writing facial recognition software. One of these is not like the others and the issue is that universities fail to realise this and just try to teach everything. In my mind we would need to abolish the idea of a general programmer and move towards specialization.