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  • saxnotsaxnot@chaos.social
    Oct 17, 2026, 5:48 AM

    But to be fair competent people in tech had always been rare and expensive.
    many people just scrape by.

    I always remember the cloud engineer who did not knew what memory was. to them it was just a number they increase on demand in the AWS console.
    And I am thinking "this is one of THE most fundamental building blocks of how computing works damn".
    That was long before our AI mania.
    In fact I know many people who hoped to be conflated with the competent people back then

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  • saxnotsaxnot@chaos.social
    Oct 17, 2026, 5:51 AM

    Back then it was super trivial to spot those who knew shit about computer eng and everyone else.
    a degree does not help.

    perhaps the AI mania makes this even more easy to filter out.
    I am not about "here is a chalkboard go implement insertion sort without looking it up" I am talking about "it is so obvious it almost radiates out of the candidate"

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  • saxnotsaxnot@chaos.social
    Oct 17, 2026, 5:54 AM

    Hm I looked it up after writing and its not even the algorithm I was thinking about.
    often you have semi-sorted lists and identifying sorted segments beforehand drastically reduces sort time.
    It's common in reality.

    but tbh if you ever implement sorting and it's not a coding kata you might be doing your job wrong. Use a (standard-)library

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