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I started in a new project last week. And I've been hailed as a lady and savior... as I copypasted some 'old' code (why reinvent the wheel, right?), modified it to fit my use case and used some material UI components and made a webpage. Apparently I did it 'awfully fast'.
Like, what. This is not rocket science. This is React in which I have now proper experience for a week. xD -
@lankku Had a similar experience with vueJS...
And Senior guy here was all like 'yeah but you learned all that at school blabla, your brain is younger, wait until you have my age blabla... I know cobol'
So yeah, 10y ago when I graduated we knew any nodejs framework... Great job.
Always telling you cannot do something because you did only learn COBOL or whatever does not help. Pick a book, or videos and learn the damn thing. -
If you extrapolate the data from the annual StackOverflow survey, plus combine it with some historical data and vacancy websites... You can see that the population of developers doubles about every 5 years. It's slowing now; there are only so many people.
But this has some consequences:
1. At any given point in time, half of our field has no experience. They just left school, if even that.
2. There have never been more inexperienced devs than there are now.
3. Getting experienced (>5 years) means that you are now part of the smaller group that actually knows stuff.
Combine these three and you get the experience you had. I had the exact same thing on StackOverflow where I was top 1% contributor for a couple years. But quite literally every question I see nowadays, I have answered at least 10 times already. Taking their question and putting it in Google gives the correct answer. But they don't know cause they have only started yesterday and found StackOverflow this morning.
Found this in our codebase, apparently one of my co-workers had written this
So I help out in a development forum for a framework I use at work. I learned a crap ton by seeing questions people ask, then learning to solve them myself. I have really enjoyed being in that forum that past 4 years.
Yet, I see people who cannot seem to reason themselves out of a paper bag at times. I see questions of I cannot run this linux executable because there are parenthesis in the filename. I mean most console interfaces are just tab complete even with special characters. This is for a developer in their 50s that has been coding 30 years. Or I see other programmers asking basic questions that 5 minutes with the docs would solve. Most of the ones that I have issue with seem to have been a part of that community a lot longer than myself.
How do developers survive without problem solving skills to understand the frameworks or tools they use?
I had another conversation with a dev in another forum about using "man" in Linux to figure out how to use something. They said something to the effect: "try learning awk from a manpage". I explained about how "back in the day" we learned EVERYTHING from man pages. That is why they are called "man" pages.
Is the industry flooded with idiots now?
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