Re:Ask HN: Could you train someone to do your job in a month?
by austin-cheney on Friday April 19, 2024 @01:20PM
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I was a JavaScript developer for 15 years and now I do something different that is new to me.
I could easily train somebody off the street, assuming higher than 125 IQ, to be a decent JavaScript developer in a month assuming that month is dedicated to training and I can assign homework. By decent I mean not an expert but certainly far superior to the average professional JavaScript developer.
How, you might ask? Teach them from the technology standards without helpful abstractions. Tooling and configuration nonsense are what bad developers do to look busy and justify their existence, so absolutely avoid all of that. Don't waste time on stupid things indented for stupid people. Build their confidence one step at a time so that they can write original high performance software at high durability.
I could easily train somebody off the street, assuming higher than 125 IQ, to be a decent JavaScript developer in a month assuming that month is dedicated to training and I can assign homework. By decent I mean not an expert but certainly far superior to the average professional JavaScript developer.
How, you might ask? Teach them from the technology standards without helpful abstractions. Tooling and configuration nonsense are what bad developers do to look busy and justify their existence, so absolutely avoid all of that. Don't waste time on stupid things indented for stupid people. Build their confidence one step at a time so that they can write original high performance software at high durability.