[makmanalp]

Counterthoughts: a) These skills fit on a double sided sheet of paper (e.g. the claude code best practices doc) and b) what these skills are has been changing so rapidly that even the best practices docs fall out of date super quick.

For example, managing the context window has become less of a problem with increased context windows in newer models and tools like the auto-resummarization / context window refresh in claude code make it so that you might be just fine without doing anything yourself.

All this to say that the idea that you're left significantly behind if you aren't training yourself on this feels bogus (I say this as a person who /does/ use these tools daily). It should take any programmer not more than a few hours to learn these skills from scratch, with the help of a doc, meaning any employee you hire should be able to pick these up no problem. I'm not sure it makes sense as a hiring filter. Perhaps in the future this will change. But right now these tools are built more like user friendly appliances - more like a cellphone or a toaster than a technology to wrap your head around, like a compiler or a database.