[ramraj07]

Yep. Pigs also need just a few steps to fly. It’s a Herculean task trying to teach an academic to code well if they weren’t already coding well. This is first hand knowledge going through the insight data science program for phds and seeing most colleagues struggle and never truly embrace software development.

You still can get a 250k offer in a good job market but not sure about now.

[darkclouds]

> It’s a Herculean task trying to teach an academic to code well if they weren’t already coding well.

Code. Test. Optimise.

Thats why fuzzers are important for testing, they brute force stupidity so the users dont have to.

[red_trumpet]

What did you see your colleagues struggle most with?

[ramraj07]

Coding is not a skill anyone can just pick up, from what I’ve seen. Going through academia doesn’t skew that probability either. Thus most academics struggle getting to understand coding the same way normal people do.