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greg
@gregfromstl
This will be a controversial opinion but I honestly believe the barrier is too low. We don’t give doctors a 6 month bootcamp and say “hey, go operate on some people!” Yet you can get hired writing code that manages millions of dollars quite easily. This isn’t a call for increased credentialism (I’m a college dropout and very proud of it). It’s a call for higher standards for everyone. If you want to write code that’s awesome, but it shouldn’t be easy.
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Fucory
@fucory
Don't think I agree with this. Your suggestion doesn't raise the bar it creates a massive labor shortage and hurt the speed at which inexperienced devs can level up
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greg
@gregfromstl
What was my suggestion exactly?
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Fucory
@fucory
Raise the barrier/standards
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greg
@gregfromstl
So we should accept lower quality?
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Fucory
@fucory
Beggars can't be choosers. There is more demand to do dev work than there are devs pretty much throughout all of history (see how much devs get paid as evidence). The choice isn't high quality vs low quality (unless you are willing to pay). The choice for the marginal dev hire is the work gets done or the work remains unfinished
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greg
@gregfromstl
I’m not begging for more devs. And demand is a weird metric because there’s a lot of dumb stuff being built that doesn’t deserve anyone’s time. That would be considered “demand”
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Fucory
@fucory
The marginal dev hire is often working on things that are not dumb. An extremely common job for this dev is building helping some family put together a wordpress website for their brick and mortor restaurant
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