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Re:Writing: Good Career Move, Terrible Career by gtirloni on Monday May 15, 2023 @04:15PM (#35953893)
> strong debugging fundamentals

Something that experienced (and expensive) programmers are good at, incidentally.

Re:Writing: Good Career Move, Terrible Career by ptdn on Monday May 15, 2023 @04:33PM (#35954107)
Yes, of course. The only people with good debugging skills are the people who have spent a lot of time debugging their own code (or the code of others). However, in an LLM-dominated environment, it may be plausible for someone to develop strong debugging skills while having only mediocre programming skills. This would be similar to the "boot camp web developer" archetype who has reasonable skills only in a narrow domain.

Full transparency: I think I'm one of those bad programmers who is a good debugger, but I've also been a full-time Linux nerd since Ubuntu 8.04, so I'm very comfortable reading error messages.