“A person who is good at programming computers is naturally clever and able to transfer that cleverness to solving problems in any domain without any need for education, training or experience” has to be one of the silliest idea of recent decades.
I know a fair few programmers who now successfully do other things, all of which took time and effort (and sometimes formal education/training) to get good at. There are transferable skills, but programming is not a magic cheat code for smartness.
Tom Morris
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