Learning is good. I am OK with people going outside of their comfort zone and learning about other disciplines, it helps people empathize, appreciate the effort of others, it facilitates collaboration, etc.
But we don't say: doctors make a lot of money, I am going to go to a doctor camp and learn to think like a doctor in 12 weeks! Then I will work as a full-stack doctor and become rich! But replace doctor with some software engineer and suddenly it makes sense.
Some people argue that we don't do life and death stuff, just harmless friendly websites. But one careless mistake can result in personally identifiable information being leaked for millions of people. Do that in healthcare and it's a HIPAA violation with only 1 single record instead of millions and you can get fired with your license revoked.
Then, I am not saying or implying "hire people who don't make mistakes". Everyone makes mistakes. Even the top 1% of top performers make mistakes.
The difference is how those mistakes happen and why. Mistakes can come in all forms, because we make assumptions and sometimes those assumptions can be wrong. The reason we can make fast decisions is because the human brain simplifies problems by making assumptions. But the assumptions made by a trained person are different.
Well realistically, someone could become a reasonably functional, useful doctor in 12 weeks, but the problem is they'd kill people pretty frequently. Bad programmers just write bad code, so if you're building a stupid website it's a lot less bad when it goes wrong.
But we don't say: doctors make a lot of money, I am going to go to a doctor camp and learn to think like a doctor in 12 weeks! Then I will work as a full-stack doctor and become rich! But replace doctor with some software engineer and suddenly it makes sense.
Some people argue that we don't do life and death stuff, just harmless friendly websites. But one careless mistake can result in personally identifiable information being leaked for millions of people. Do that in healthcare and it's a HIPAA violation with only 1 single record instead of millions and you can get fired with your license revoked.
Then, I am not saying or implying "hire people who don't make mistakes". Everyone makes mistakes. Even the top 1% of top performers make mistakes.
The difference is how those mistakes happen and why. Mistakes can come in all forms, because we make assumptions and sometimes those assumptions can be wrong. The reason we can make fast decisions is because the human brain simplifies problems by making assumptions. But the assumptions made by a trained person are different.