Today I'm returning to Bailey Nelson as Engineering Manager which means lots of CommerceTools, Shopify and AWS but just as importantly, no Adobe or Magento
What are your current thoughts when it comes to your programming education right now? I'm not talking about leveraging AI effectively. I mean bread and butter programming concepts.
Do you care at all at this point?
By 2015 the industry was already full of sys admins/devs doing it because it paid well instead of being driven by passion.
A lot of "senior" devs are hacks with minimal debugging skills who keep adding code until it works rather than trying to understand why it doesn't.
products of 2015 were largely build by senior programmers in the 2010s who joined the industry in the early 2000s and spent the 90s as teens honing their craft while everyone was telling them they won't amount to anything. Of cause they made fantastic things, no one was writing