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by neomantra 433 days ago
I didn't mean to be pejorative (vs mugblood), but meant people without programming/systems skills (the "magic") but strong computer skills. I also didn't mean they aren't capable of learning it or growing, which maybe muggle implies.

Anyway, many soft-tech people are grabbing AI tools and using them in all sorts of ways. It's a great time of utility and exploration for all of us. But by not being previously exposed to systems security, hardening, the nature of bugs, etc, they just don't know what they don't know.

All of the security problems in the Original Post are challenges to them, because they don't even know anything about it in the first place, nor how to mitigate. What is great though (apparent in those Reddit threads), is that once it is pointed out, they seem to thirst to understand/learn/defend.

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Got it.

I think this is, unfortunately, an optimistic, and ultimately anachronistic, perspective on our industry. I think what you describe as "soft-tech people" are in fact the overwhelming majority of junior/entry-level developers, since probably around 6mo-1y ago.