Well tbh, I know people who graduated 3 years go, got a job, worked and even got promoted as SWE who dont know the basic commands of an OS. I recently had an EE with a senior position admit to me they dont know how to use grep because they've been relying on llms since they got out of school.

Lots of the tech world, especially the younger side is completely reliant on these things for every little thing. Im not exaggerating either.

Wait, someone who graduated since LLM-pocalypse has a senior title?

Lots of places where Senior just means 3+ YOE and anything more than that has even fancier titles like "Staff" or "Principal".

I see. Yeah it basically means ~7 YoE at my shop. Was 5, but we started delaying the promotion when we started belt-tightening in 23.

FWIW I'm at a Visual Studio shop and grep competency is pretty rare across the board.