Isn't fluid intelligence learning? and crystallized intelligence stuff you already know?

It's not one or the other. Those fit in spec driven development already. I have skills that integrate writing and implementing specs.

Promotion at most companies is competitive. So multiple people want the same role. So you need a sorting mechanism.

Counterpoint: in a lot of companies, especially larger companies, roles are designed to fit existing staff, rather than staff being selected for roles.

That's just a bad dev. Good devs don't think of just the happy path. My experience of QA as a quality focused dev has not been good.

The purpose of QA is to identify the unhappy paths that the good devs missed, not to compensate for bad devs.

And yet the tolerance for bad decisions is much higher in bigger companies. Make a bad decision at large company and simple intertia will keep you going. Make a bad decision in a small company and you're out of business.

I mean, last November amazon laid off 14k people claiming pandemic over hiring.

Inertia certainly seems to insulate Jassy from ownership

Yes

They are talking swapping fields completely like going into plumbing. Not simply picking up new tech.

Intelligence scales with social skills.

Unless you have a condition like autism which allows skewed development, which a lot software engineers do have.

I think that's changed recently. Recent release notes state it's added support for RDNA4

VKD3D-Proton gained FSR4 support and will ship in a future release of Proton, but RDNA4 requires a newer kernel.

SteamOS release notes are public at https://www.steamdeck.com/en/news, it still uses a 6.11 kernel from September 2024.

This youtuber has the 9070XT working on the latest steamos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U6-R6XtCUQ&pp=ygUXZXRhIHBya....

The whole point is to just use the steam UI only, and steam deck verified games. Anything else and your on your own.

The difference is they let you if you want to.

Used != Prefer

Even for personal use? If devs preferred Linux so much, I'd expect them to use it at least in their own time. But, what the stats say is that people use Win even more when it comes to personal devices, and Linux, not even a tenth of a percent. If anything, that looks like that dev don't prefer Linux. They use when the employer pushes it onto them, but not anywhere else.

The problem is that many games and software still only work on windows.

Is that why developers don't prefer Linux?