Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Why do you think you're overworked? Why do you think it is extremely difficult to hire cost-effective devs?

Devs like this can sometimes manage to glide by because the people interviewing them (for low-range salaries/hourly work, anyway) aren't themselves technically competent & are easy to impress via jargon and conceptual sleight-of-hand (basically, a Nerd Savvy performance)

It's not the case that *anyone* can be a strong dev... but for a long time, you were expected to play the Nerd Savvy game for access to the market — e.g. have strong opinions on vim/emacs, be able to whiteboard runnable code, etc. Wrt creative problem-solving, it's a distraction.

It's possible for a bright, creative problem-solver to learn to code in a matter of months and be perfectly competent at pseudo-coding a brilliant solution to a much tougher (and more work-relevant) problem that they could write relatively quickly after a few Google searches