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This is a recent degradation; they've been writing blog entries for years. As a non native English speaker I can also attest to this trade being extremely dema
by fredrikholm 1mo ago
This is a recent degradation; they've been writing blog entries for years.
As a non native English speaker I can also attest to this trade being extremely demanding of English fluency:
> public static void DoTheThing(Configuration config)
Isn't something you can not understand and still function as a software engineer. Yes, some schools and universities teach in other languages, but the entire ecosystem from code to documentation to articles is nearly almost always in English.
- deanc 1mo agoIt doesn't matter. I work with people who aren't native speakers (in a country where English-education is a very high standard) but are mostly fluent in day to day conversation and meetings and they are not comfortable writing long-form texts - and it shows. Your expectations are unrealistic.
- sevg 1mo ago> Your expectations are unrealistic. No they are not. Claude isn’t the only option for such a person, as translation tools exist, and English-speaking colleagues exist to proof-read. In any case, the article author writes perfectly well in English pre LLM era: https://www.kochan.io/nodejs/it-is-ok-to-keep-random-things-in-a-single-monorepo.html https://www.kochan.io/nodejs/it-is-ok-to-keep-random-things-...