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On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 08:34:49 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> The system acknowledges that there are people who want to be pilots, who
> aren't fit to be.
> 
> If only we could do the same with coders...

'fit to be' sounds harsh but it's accurate. Everytime I hear some 
variation on 'let them learn to code' it comes to mind. Due to 
demographics Massachusetts had a surplus of elementary school teachers in 
the '80s and that was the proposed solution. I'm sure it would work for 
some but in general a personality type who became a teacher probably 
wouldn't be too happy writing code. Gregarious, outgoing, other-directed 
doesn't describe most of the coders I know.