Subject: Re: OT: ChatGPT

I'd agree with Jim with regards to programming talent. I've done various programming work (usually low level stuff) for close to 40 years and you get a few exceptional programmers with a lot of marginal ones and more than a few mostly incompetent ones. Sadly there are a lot of people who somehow managed to get a CS or other tech degree and can't program or do engineering work efficiently or even correctly.