[oregondan]

What??

This seems like a road that only leads to technical debt brought on by people who, as you say, know nothing about the code they're working on. Why would you feel that's acceptable to a company?

Fortunately software development (often) has little direct impact on matters of life or death, but can you imagine an architect or construction worker who successfully cheated their way through school being brought on and having zero idea of how to weld, or how to predict the weak points in a structure?

Also, I'd argue that using frameworks is different than 'not writing code,' though I do agree that the JS community has become framework-obsessed...

[austincheney]

> This seems like a road that only leads to technical debt brought on by people who

This technology is littered by technical debt by people doing everything they can to cheat. We are already there. That line in the sand was crossed years ago.