I think it's reinforcement learning. It's been trained to give coding results but some of the conversation it gives as a side effect of its coding are absolute garbage
I think it's just that people who can't individually contribute end up doing... whatever else.
And managers that hired those people don't want to admit that they are bad at hiring people.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is very relevant here. Competent companies do not have this problem. Incompetent companies are completely oblivious to this problem.
The word "officially" is the massive wiggle-word here.
Only one person on Earth has officially seen the color of my coffee mug. Send me Venmo for $10, and I'll officiate your viewing of the attached JPG....
Except that this requires extremely specialized equipment to individually trigger specific cone cells in your eyes, so I expect they have a pretty damn good idea of who has seen this and who hasn't.
I started making a programming language that is designed to encompass frontend, backend, database, container, and cluster, so that there it is not necessary to stitch together other languages.
It uses functional programming and event sourcing to try and effectively "solve" modern distributed web application development, so that your app code in this language can be extremely simple but not have bad architecture and gaps.
I'm probably oversimplifying the complexity, so I don't even know if it's feasible, but it's pretty fun to give Claude my crazy ideas and see what happens.
I found similar from experience with lifting weights.
If my gym sessions are 300+ minutes per week, I end up too tired to increase the weight and I get weaker, it's counter productive.
180 minutes per week feels good but is pretty easy if it's 30 mins 6 times per week (or 60 mins 3 times per week). But that's where the effort-level really comes into it, how long are you resting between sets, etc.
So 150-300 minutes per week feels right but it depends on many factors. Elite athletes are genetic freaks, etc.
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