I say knowingly because actually the sum total of accumulated info for just a month or two of human activity eclipses even today's LLM.

And the CEO decisions are frequently flawed because there's a strong filter of the information from below.

Perhaps a crowd sourced (employee sourced) decision making process would be best with the wisdom of crowds.

Rather than dealing with people on real problems.

I'm currently getting interviews. For work that I know from having done it for twenty years that coding is only a small subset of. But the emphasis is far more on coding than application of experience gained to overcoming similar problems quicker the second, third or fourth times I'd be working them.

It's sad. I'll certainly just say no to leetcode for the kind of engineering I'm looking for. Rather go do some (paid) gardening.

But like I said, I've not looked at any Rust despite its marketing success.

But from other comments Scratch seems to have picked up a lot of extraneous crap like social and tiktok in the intervening years (decade).

Personally it all sounds very familiar. So familiar I'd admit I'm mildly depressed. But I do still have a pad of good ideas that I add to.

Also very interesting is that yes even with ideas I'm not good at doing them - but the suggestion that their thing might be the enabling others to achieve theirs really sticks out for me. I'm definitely at my best helping others to do better.

All in I'd say it was a good response.

Others go in, have lunch (free canteen), then go home. Having ticked the system for enough days in. Then do their work from home because the office is such a disruptive place to get anything done.

Most managers don't care so long as the work is getting completed on time.

They do also go much wider than just combinatorial math.

I've enjoyed dipping in. Sometimes found it directly useful to work. But the best of his works I read (in full) was the MMIX book that is a literate program of the interpreter. Second to that was the typography book, a total fascinating delight.

In reality there's probably almost no one who reads any volume of TAOCP in full.

The only way to answer your question is probably to start reading and see if you enjoy it. But expect it take some effort.

The latter being more difficult to do these days as I boggle at the environmental decline and general reaction to ignore it and similarly the outrageous politics of the right that seem to dangerously deny truth.

Which is different to saying anyone trained to be an engineer will be able to get stuff done. But getting stuff done was always a recnognised requirement of an engineer; i.e. by definition they should be getting stuff done.