The underlying (absurd) assumption is that the sum total potential of a developer you hire to do a job is statically determined by their past experience at inte

The underlying (absurd) assumption is that the sum total potential of a developer you hire to do a job is statically determined by their past experience at interview time. This is the problem with "Human Resources" thinking, it fails to account for all the, well, human stuff. Case in point from the article: > it is not viable (for us) to retrain a C developer to Rust What? Why the hell not?