[hinkley]

> You can pretty much get to a point where you build things reasonably well by default without even thinking too hard about it.

That's mastery. There are probably about as many master programmers as there were master... let's say blacksmiths. The problem is there are 10, 20, maybe 50 times as many programmers as we ever had journeymen blacksmiths. And they all seem to think that tenure equals mastery. If we had 10, 20, 50 times as many masters, we'd have enough people to keep an eye on things. But we don't.

[biorach]

> that's mastery

Sounds more like competence

[tmtvl]

Nah, competence means that with some effort you can make things that work well enough, if you don't need to put in such effort it's mastery.