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> Does nobody remember how most "engineers" were literally copying and pasting snippets from StackOverflow they didn't understand, and the snippets usually had
by watwut 2mo ago
> Does nobody remember how most "engineers" were literally copying and pasting snippets from StackOverflow they didn't understand, and the snippets usually had tons of bugs
Not in companies I worked for, no.
> How many of you know Assembly well? How many of you can decompile a program, or write your own compiler or VM? How many of you could pass a computer science course (that you didn't take at Uni)?
None of these was ever an expectation most coders. Some are bonkers as an expectation for all.
- 0xbadcafebee 2mo agoThey used to be normal expectations. My point is the "decline" is a natural movement away from highly-skilled generalists toward specialized-and-less-skilled labor and has nothing to do with AI