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New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. (nmn.gl)
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[–] socsa@piefed.social 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This isn't a new thing. Dilution of "programmer" and "computer" education has been going on for a long time. Everyone with an IT certificate is an engineer th se days.

For millennials, a "dev" was pretty much anyone with reasonable intelligence who wanted to write code - it is actually very easy to learn the basics and fake your way into it with no formal education. Now we are even moving on from that to where a "dev" is anyone who can use an AI. "Prompt Engineering."

[–] frezik@midwest.social 14 points 3 days ago

"Prompt Engineer" makes a little vomit appear in the back of my mouth.