[lamontcg]

> Nothing further from truth.

Agreed.

> What changed is how companies react ... Companies learned that ... Companies also learned ...

Also all wrong, though.

Nothing has changed.

> My experience is also that large proportion of hires can barely program at all ...

And that won't change either. Hiring anyone with a pulse started in the late 90s and 2008 didn't interrupt that. Those will be the people who are likely to lose their jobs in the coming recession, but hiring will expand again afterwards.

This is just another layoff cycle. People are projecting weird myths about how they think things should change onto companies when there's zero evidence that they've fundamentally changed or learned anything.

Sociologically it is weird how we haven't had a recession since 2008 and all the kids who either don't remember or barely remember that one are projecting all kinds of fundamental shifts onto the next one.