Intellectuals of reddit discuss how smart you need to be a web dev
so like 120 iq which is probably already only <5% of the population
population level yes lmao
can you see the average person doing this v work?
One of my old managers said "I think anyone can be a cloud engineer"...
He's kinda right, not because CE is easy but because anyone can do it if they apply themselves [this is downmarseyd lmao]
There are tons of people who couldn't do it even if they applied themselves. Like the McDonald's worker the other day who kept insisting I had an order number after I repeatedly told and showed her the app crashed and I wasn't given one.
I had someone try to convince me that when I claimed my free quarter pounder from my rewards points, that I had to buy one first to get the free one. For 3 minutes.
Ah yes the smarties are now posting how they get into arguments with McDonald's workers 
the pinnacle of intellectual workers
Not worth a dedicated post but it reminded me of this rust post
I've been a professional developer since about 2012. Most of the stuff I work on is web applications, and I believe I am pretty good at it given my experience and interactions with my peers. I love programing and it takes up most of my free time. [...] What is thread safety anyways? Atomics? What are those?
bro how the frick can you be a developer for over a decade and you don't understand thread safety?
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Nope. Years ago, yes, but now everyone knows Python or JavaScript. Programming isn't hard. It's engineering and thinking about all the things that could go wrong that's hard, and usually this requires a team. Dummying down of dev stuff happened around the WordPress era I think.
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Every field dumbs down over time, like how manufacturing went from artisans to factory workers to robots. Smart people can't resist automating away their jobs.
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Definitely. I think we're seeing it happen in AI which used to be more esoteric, but now eerrrryyybody calls themselves an AI expert because they typed in some ChatGPT prompts.
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Yeah I suppose at like the turn of the 19th century. But now with CNC stuff it is EASIER to prototype and develop your own custom stuff, and then take that to be manufactured at massive scale. So it is even easier for artisans, it's just that you have to compete against mass produced stuff which is way cheaper.
In the sense that you use CNC machines, but you still have to design stuff in CAD. And CNC/FDM stuff is just for prototyping, it's not for mass scale production (which still involves many workers at every step). And a lot of stuff is still manufactured "by hand"... well you use machines, but it's not like you just give a robot a shape, you still have to design and plan out every part of the manufacturing process it's just that we draw on computers now instead of paper - basically it is easier to run simulations and you can use ctrl-Z and go back to make changes. but thats pretty much the only thing that has changed
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