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I was hoping this might start with some actual evidence that programmers are in fact getting worse. Nope, just a single sentence mentioning "growing concern", followed by paragraphs and paragraphs of pontification.
Thx for saving me a click. We are full of options and nobody has data. Down voting the post.
Welcome to the Internet. Pontification is all we've got. Now we've got LLMs regurgitating the old pontifications to make new ones.
I came in with your same expectations and found the same shit. Just some opinion formed on the basis of "concern".
I don't think it's making devs worse, however I do think it's significantly lowering the bar to entry to the point where people who don't have enough knowledge to actually do the job well are becoming proceedingly common. Theoretically they should get weeded out by a good interview process but corporate be corporate
Not that my opinion is worth anything, it's not like I have anything to back it up.
Please disregard any takes I may have
I mean, at least you acknowledge that you're presenting an opinion. This blog post just tries to gloss over the fact that it's pure speculation.
We’ve all read this post multiple times. Isn’t it just the “young people are lazy” that’s been going around for thousands of years?
https://historyhustle.com/2500-years-of-people-complaining-about-the-younger-generation/
At most it’s a tangent on it…
Exactly what I suspected. How could you even truly prove such a thing
It's probably not "provable" one way or the other, but I'd like to see more empirical studies in general within the software industry, and this seems like a fruitful subject for that.