“Prompt engineer” is a legitimate profession to people who think “how fast you can type Python” is what determines the skill level of an actual programmer.
When people type 70wpm andit it requires thier full attention, it seems intuitive that this is a bottleneck. I just don’t believe that’s the typical state of affairs for most devs. Most management, sure.
I’m not saying there aren’t some code that get written that is braindead simple and have a lot of keystrokes (builders come to mind) but modern IDEs will generate them for you. We already had a plethora of deterministic code generation tools at our fingertips.
When you can type at 70wpm you can only do that when you’re copying text or taking dictation, maybe at double speed. Detailed thought doesn’t come at even 20wpm
I learnt to touch type quickly, the only thing I type at that speed now is my passphrases
For real. I type like a boomer, but I never had any problems at uni or work (as a developer). It’s not about how fast you’re typing but what you’re typing. And any good developer generally spends more time thinking or testing than typing.
Bur bad managers can’t accept this, they need dumb metrics like typing speed, added lines of code, useless certificates, etc
“Prompt engineer” is a legitimate profession to people who think “how fast you can type Python” is what determines the skill level of an actual programmer.
When people type 70wpm andit it requires thier full attention, it seems intuitive that this is a bottleneck. I just don’t believe that’s the typical state of affairs for most devs. Most management, sure.
I’m not saying there aren’t some code that get written that is braindead simple and have a lot of keystrokes (builders come to mind) but modern IDEs will generate them for you. We already had a plethora of deterministic code generation tools at our fingertips.
When you can type at 70wpm you can only do that when you’re copying text or taking dictation, maybe at double speed. Detailed thought doesn’t come at even 20wpm
I learnt to touch type quickly, the only thing I type at that speed now is my passphrases
For real. I type like a boomer, but I never had any problems at uni or work (as a developer). It’s not about how fast you’re typing but what you’re typing. And any good developer generally spends more time thinking or testing than typing.
Bur bad managers can’t accept this, they need dumb metrics like typing speed, added lines of code, useless certificates, etc