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The reason an article like this are so irritating is because it has such a narrow view of peoples capabilities and diminishes folks that dont fit in a narrow spectrum.

I worked at a company that took 3 years to migrate a few services across k8s clusters, a task that would normally take me just 3 months. They he-hawed because I hadn't learned to write go though, so they thought I was the retard somehow. No one could run the entire app locally but me, but I don't write Java.

The moral is, different engineers have different strengths, and if your running around thinking people are zero's - the problem is likely with leadership, and not the IC. In this case, the author seems like a week, inexperienced leader, not a great engineer.