[vsareto]

>It is a natural consequence of people who only “develop” by gluing things together. God help them if they’d actually have to write some core function themselves.

That's on the industry for not training and gating well. It would be nice to have glue/plumber positions so expectations are not out of line too.

[foobiekr]

I don’t think most of the coders who end up in glue code positions are actually trainable.

Agree solidly on the gating aspect though.

The problem is that quality hires continue to be rare and at some level you are doing area-under-the-curve reasoning.