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@bagder I think it's the old Gel-Mann thing, where he has assumed that people in areas that aren't his own are probably real adults, because how else would the world keep working

My sweet summer Ed

@nqd Online, I think I get exposed to way more random people. IRL, I was in a bubble of mostly incompetent people (it was huge) and now I'm in a bubble of mostly competent people (it's very small).

@haruki_zaemon Oh shit, I didn't know you were on Mastodon!

Reposting a question for Ed Zitron, I'll forward responses. He asked on Bluesky and will get sub-Mastodon-tier answers:

"This is a serious question and I would be delighted if I only hear great things but, software engineers: both before and after LLMs, how often in your professional lives have you run into software engineers that seem completely useless or lacking in basic knowledge? I hope the answer is rarely"