> I mean if someone who is "clearly inexperienced" has the capacity to do all that, we are so fucked.
I don’t know whether or not these folks are inexperienced, but it’s hard to overstate how truly bad software is, these days. Many software developers are inexperienced, and the entire industry is built like a house of cards.
The bar is very, very low, and over reliance on dependencies seems to be something that programmers actually boast about. Another point of pride seems to be deliberately ignoring experience and a careful approach (“Move fast and break things”).
But there’s certainly good money in being a security consultant. Lots of low-hanging fruit. That industry is growing like a weed.