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It's infuriating to think about interviews as a likely cause for this complexity bloat because I made so many comments online about this exact problem with big tech interview processes and people would usually acknowledge the problem but no company ever fixed it! The only people who didn't think there was a problem, unironically, were those who were very good at fast puzzle-solving.

Painful for me because I excel at architecture. My puzzle-solving skills are actually good too, but unfortunately, not under time constraints! Sometimes I feel like there's been an industry-wide conspiracy against the software architect archetype!

I remember since I first learned coding at a young age, I wanted to be a software architect and I was shocked to learn that this skill was rarely appreciated in the industry. I became convinced that the software developer role had become a kind of 'bullshit job' of sorts to meet the needs of the reserve bank's job-creation agenda.

I suppose the silver lining is that at least now LLMs have a bias towards puzzle-solving and so lead most codebases astray... This increases my value as a software architect or 'craftsman' in your words.

I think you make a good argument there. You can extrapolate it to almost every aspect of society. Since you go to school, everything has been geared towards measuring thinking speed... We've been using thinking speed as the definition of intelligence... You know who else besides high IQ individuals are good at thinking fast? LLMs!

It's kind of interesting and fitting though that the AI agents we invented have the same biases as the humans at the top of our organizations!

I feel like the whole "there is only one kind of intelligence" belief which was pervasive in big tech has been thoroughly debunked by now.