alt Hacker News> Ever since I became a programmer two decades ago, the great unwashed masses of techno-dweebs who call themselves "programmers" have been picking up complex and nuanced technology that they have never bother to formally learn, and then complain that it sucks and they need an alternative. When in reality, the problem is almost always either a) they didn't read the manual, b) they haven't practiced using it
This kind of Dunning-Kruger-esque arrogance in software is intensely aggravating to me. Nobody presumes that you can master, say, a musical instrument, without intensive practice over a timespan of years; yet for some reason people can get plopped out the other end of a bootcamp and suddenly identify as world class programmers in 16 weeks without the requisite thousands of hours of practice with hands on keyboard, reading the manual, studying how the computer works, and actually solving technical problems.
I've been around a while. As in I've installed Linux from floppies kind of vintage.
I get new grads with great grades, who are decent junior devs that are productive in, say, Java and one or maybe two related things like SpringBoot or Hikari, but don't even know about simple/common things that sometimes baffle me.
They seem to think I'm some sort of wizard because I can quickly put together simple commands line pipelines using things like grep, awk, sed, sort, uniq, wc - and dig useful answers or insights out of log files or csv files or database exports, or even JSON by using jq as well.
It amazes me that some of them have never even heard of the existence of tools like that, or how easily you can pipe the output from one to the input of another and chain them up in such useful ways.
(At the same time, I'm fairly sure I have similar black holes in my knowledge and mental map of how things that other people specialise in work. :shrug: )