Comment by panarky
3 years ago
People in their twenties with zero courtroom experience do the vast majority of the work of the US Supreme Court.
People right out of college with zero experience help Fortune 500 companies with strategy, mergers, acquisitions, process design, enterprise system implementation, auditing their financial statements, etc.
The world is run by young people with minimal experience. Their organization's procedures, checklists, on-the-job training, and occasional guidance by someone with more experience somehow make it work.
And remember that your clients are even less knowledgeable than you and your checklist.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed person is a god.
Pretty much all academic research work is done by grad students, with highly variable supervision by the PI.
Complex tasks often contain chunks which can be delegated from more to less qualified members of team (for mutual benefit). It's fine. But selling worktime of absolutely inexperienced people who at times don't even understand that spreadsheets they carry around as experts, and pretending there is some sort of superintellectual efforts were done when charging customers is still looks very much like snake oil business. And "security" industry is full of this stuff
Damn, imagine if there was some way to actually record all of this menial work that people do in some form of code, and then make that shit public.