[geggam]

This. Competence is reducing per capita. The market is saturated with IT people who dont know what they are doing

[dennisgorelik]

The average competence is NOT reducing. What is reducing is demand for mediocre (and low) competence.

This trend results in less competent people flooding the job market.

[softawre]

But if demand for low competence people goes down, those people aren't learning on the job, therefore decreasing the average competence of the workforce.

[jimbokun]

...said every generation ever about the next generation.

[geggam]

Sysadmins used to be able to compile a kernel and some could even hack a kernel module together.

Today ? Not happening.