"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I just meant in the context of math skills, but I definitely acknowledge that it was poor phrasing on my part.

On the other hand get them to try and debug code. And then you might realize the redicilous amount of unwritten lore that software engineering has. OTOH software engineering has courses but you need to work with people to get good not just read books. Like math.

While true, there are some clues such as the correlation between someone's occupation and their IQ.

I don't even understand how you interpreted that to have anything to do with being "smarter or making more money". Get some more coffee dude.

Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Maybe less coffee :)

But how else would I power this machine that outputs theorems?

Erdős found stronger drugs

become comathematician and turn cotheorems into ffee