[mattdeboard]

I wonder about the thought process that spawns articles like these.

I'm a novice but I think I do pretty well for myself. I also didn't write my first line of code when I was very young. I didn't get any thrills or anything from programming until I started in my 30s.

Obviously you need hordes of novices. What a preposterous, pretentious thing to say. It's the ultimate "first world problem" of career fields. "We have too many people who want to do this job because the pay is so good, career outlook is so bright, and job satisfaction is so high!"

Yes you'll probably have to work much harder on a good noise filter when hiring, and you will probably have to be ok with taking a chance on hiring "newbs", hoping to get a great one who trains up well.

This is a really geeky rant, and I don't mean that in a good way. I mean it as in totally socially tone deaf. It's like Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons wrote this. I know the author is a well-known guy in the software world but that doesn't change my opinion at all.