Mastodawn

Reposting a question for Ed Zitron, I'll forward responses. He asked on Bluesky and will get sub-Mastodon-tier answers:

"This is a serious question and I would be delighted if I only hear great things but, software engineers: both before and after LLMs, how often in your professional lives have you run into software engineers that seem completely useless or lacking in basic knowledge? I hope the answer is rarely"

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Rob Yurkowski (he/him)

@ludicity Generally speaking, the developers that I've worked with have all exhibited basic competency. But the discipline to diagnose and solve complicated problems in numerous domains—as opposed to relying on the ol' stab-in-the-dark method—was a pretty rare skill pre-COVID and it seems to have gotten markedly worse since.