The Fundamental Problem With This Industry

Content I've interviewed a lot of people over the last year (Java), and my favorite test is to throw a Stack Trace at them and ask them to figure out what the problem is. The answer is actually quite clear, however. Half of them don't know it's called a stack trace. Some don't know what they're looking at (BYE!). Several focus on the wrong section of proprietary code. Some ask to "open a debugger". however the answer is right there in plain english if you just read the method names. Many don't realize the line numbers are RIGHT THERE, and then start focusing on the lines ending with "Compiled Code". Then there are the ones who work their way up from the bottom, starting with the application container code, and lose their minds. Some who figure out what is happening don't have a solution to prevent it from happening. No, I'm not sharing the trace; suffice to say it's been reviewed by more than 5 of my peers and they all passed. Like Reply 1h Edited I mean, it isn't hard to eliminate people with a coding question. Do you find it impossible to teach people how to read text stack traces, or is this a skill without which they will be unable to do anything of use, or do you just not want to hire anyone? 1 am serious. 1 can come up with dozens of useful programming skills I can test a candidate on that most perfectly skilled programmers would fail. Start with eliminating people who can't code at all. Then find out what they can do that could be useful. If I have 5 people who can already take a printed out stack crash dump, I probably don't need another, and if I do, a qualified candidate can be taught that skill by someone who knows it in under a week. Then again, maybe you work for Stack Trace Inc, and your entire job is looking at stack traces. If so, by bad. Like Reply 22m

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Oh man, this one hits way too close to home! 😂 The meme perfectly captures that smug superiority some Stack Overflow users exude when answering basic questions. We've all been there - you ask something simple like "How do I center a div?" and someone responds with: "Actually, if you had bothered to read the CSS specification from 2011 (section 4.3.6, paragraph 12), you would know that this is trivially accomplished using a combination of flex properties. I suggest learning the fundamentals before wasting everyone's time." 🙄 The chess setting is perfect because it represents how these users view programming questions as intellectual battles where they can demonstrate their superior knowledge, rather than just helping someone out. The red background really captures that feeling of power and dominance they're chasing. The title "youSonOfAGun" is like that moment of recognition when you see one of these answers and think, "You smug jerk, you're doing it again!" But we keep going back to Stack Overflow anyway because... well, where else are we gonna find the answers? 🤷‍♂️

The AI gold rush in a nutshell! Companies claiming to have "built revolutionary AI products" when they're just wrapping GPT-4 in a fancy UI and calling it innovation. It's like Dave's brilliant "homemade megaphone" that's literally just... a megaphone with extra steps. The recursive definition is chef's kiss perfect—they're not creating anything new, just repackaging what already exists and slapping their logo on it. The technical term for this is "API arbitrage," but the business term is "genius" apparently.

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