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You're so full of it. Reality check never.

K0balt 1y ago
Obviously, what im saying is a gross generalization with many counter examples. If you are an exception to that norm, I in no way meant to disparage your accomplishments. Certainly I am not speaking from an ivory tower perspective, as I myself am entirely self taught in my profession, taking some classes here and there to fill in what I felt were gaps in my depth of understanding. And , to be fair, a lot of development happens in the CRUD and web dev space. It’s also what LLMs, properly harnessed, excel at. I just haven’t seen anyone without a deep interest in the technology become a highly proficient developer for greenfield development or deciphering ancient codebases, but I have seen a lot of people who want to collect a paycheck but can’t really produce anything that hasn’t been built or documented before without someone on the team dragging them along. Fortunately, most things have been built and documented before, so there’s that. Wherever you find exceptional talent in a field of any kind, you will generally find that most of those examples will have started their journey in childhood in one way or another. There are probably people that started out as hairdressers or lawyers and became great engineers, but I imagine they are few and far between. “Learn to code” generally didn’t offer anything over what one could easily absorb if you went looking for it yourself, which anyone fascinated by the field will have already done. (Except possibly in primary school). Socially it was a push by Tech to create more serfs, or a grift to take people’s money or gain political favor. Certainly, it did create employment “opportunities” for a lot of people, and recently we have seen the reaping of that harvest, and a lot of people kicked to the curb as chaff of the process. (Many of them undoubtedly talented developers, but the process is only statistically functional, individual results may vary by a number of factors unrelated to ability) OTOH it has left us with things like KhanAcademy and a handful of other self-serve educational resources that are legitimately helpful for people starting their journey of discovery, so that I think is a very positive thing.

Obviously, what im saying is a gross generalization with many counter examples. If you are an exception to that norm, I in no way meant to disparage your accomplishments. Certainly I am not speaking from an ivory tower perspective, as I myself am entirely self taught in my profession, taking some classes here and there to fill in what I felt were gaps in my depth of understanding. And , to be fair, a lot of development happens in the CRUD and web dev space. It’s also what LLMs, properly harnessed, excel at. I just haven’t seen anyone without a deep interest in the technology become a highly proficient developer for greenfield development or deciphering ancient codebases, but I have seen a lot of people who want to collect a paycheck but can’t really produce anything that hasn’t been built or documented before without someone on the team dragging them along. Fortunately, most things have been built and documented before, so there’s that. Wherever you find exceptional talent in a field of any kind, you will generally find that most of those examples will have started their journey in childhood in one way or another. There are probably people that started out as hairdressers or lawyers and became great engineers, but I imagine they are few and far between. “Learn to code” generally didn’t offer anything over what one could easily absorb if you went looking for it yourself, which anyone fascinated by the field will have already done. (Except possibly in primary school). Socially it was a push by Tech to create more serfs, or a grift to take people’s money or gain political favor. Certainly, it did create employment “opportunities” for a lot of people, and recently we have seen the reaping of that harvest, and a lot of people kicked to the curb as chaff of the process. (Many of them undoubtedly talented developers, but the process is only statistically functional, individual results may vary by a number of factors unrelated to ability) OTOH it has left us with things like KhanAcademy and a handful of other self-serve educational resources that are legitimately helpful for people starting their journey of discovery, so that I think is a very positive thing.