I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
These individuals are not stupid, they are highly educated people that may have been in the industry for a long time.
I'm not sure you can justify a blanket statement like this. I've known people in programming jobs where I wondered how they managed to cope with tasks such as buying their own groceries without catching fire.
Case in point, I knew of a PHD specialized in A.I who had to finalize a website I almost finished before I was sent to another client.
I know A.I. and website building may require different mindsets but when I was called back on the project to check why suddenly everything was broken, I checked and talked to the guy.
It became apparent that he had:
Tested new features he wanted to implement (before he even started on the required ones) directly on the prod site
Renamed all the variables so it's easier to read. So he renamed them something like a, aa, aaa, aaa etc ... until he reached a limit of character or something where then he went to b, bb, bbb, bbbb etc ...
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I'm not sure you can justify a blanket statement like this. I've known people in programming jobs where I wondered how they managed to cope with tasks such as buying their own groceries without catching fire.
Yeah, you're right. They might just be stupid! 😉
I agree.
Case in point, I knew of a PHD specialized in A.I who had to finalize a website I almost finished before I was sent to another client.
I know A.I. and website building may require different mindsets but when I was called back on the project to check why suddenly everything was broken, I checked and talked to the guy.
It became apparent that he had: