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by austin-cheney
837 days ago
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Performance, security, and written communication. In my experience CS graduates are hilariously and profoundly bad at each of those. When it comes to performance most developers are absolutely and utterly incapable of measuring things, a bridge too far. As a result most developers simply just guess at this. The problem with guessing is that people tend to guess wrong more 80% of the time and more those 50% of those wrong guesses are off by one to three orders of magnitude. In my experience most developers have absolutely no idea about security best practices and yet somehow believe themselves quite brilliant at it. Security in software is Dunning-Kruger at its finest, and the confidence therein is superbly comedic. Don’t lie to yourself about security. If you want to prove to the world just how much you aren’t full of shit get a CASP, CISA, or CISSP. In my experience you are typically much safer listening to the security opinions of software developers and executing the exact opposite. Written communication is also a poor developed skill for most software developers. I have seen people insane things to avoid having to send brief emails. Your ability to articulate your thoughts in writing with precision and clarity are the best way to unintentionally prove to the world just how brilliant you are. Good written communication requires practice. Don’t be that coward that hides from this because you are only harming your own professional development. |
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AIs are good at all of these. Performance & security is largely a knowledge problem which AIs are very good at. And LLMs are great at written communication.