And if more systems engineers had more design knowledge, navigating the AWS console wouldn’t be like walking on hot coals. But it’s still $X0 billion/year business!
We’re all different at good things, and it’s usually better to lean into your strengths than it is to paper over your weaknesses.
We can wish everyone were good at everything, or we can try to actually get things done.
> We can wish everyone were good at everything, or we can try to actually get things done.
I want to be clear, there's no perfect code or a perfect understanding or any of that. But the complaint here about not knowing /enough/ fundamentals is valid. There is some threshold which we should recognize as a minimum. The disagreement is about where this threshold is, and no one is calling for perfection. But certainly there are plenty who want the threshold to not exist. Be that AI will replace coders or coding bootcamps get you big tech jobs. Zero to hero in a few months is bull.
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