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> Do you think it is reasonable to expect a person with an arts degree to know this?

There are plenty of people with arts degrees who know this, and PLENTY of dogshit engineers with CS degrees who don’t

"This works but the app is slow, can you optimize it." I'm not even kidding, most of the time this is all that's needed. Repo patterns don't really matter because humans barely end up looking at the code.

We've had a customer send us a prototype of what they wanted built with AI, and they don't have a college degree in anything. It followed our codebase patterns without any prompting, included tests, and all we had to do was wire up the backend.

> Do you think it is reasonable to expect a person with an arts degree

Of course it is.

The only people who think your fucking college degree determines your knowledge level and ability are teenagers and people who are so deeply untalented that it’s the only way they feel qualified.