Given the rest of the paragraph, I believe the parent is trying to say that *mer...

		jasomill 23 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I quit. The clankers won Given the rest of the paragraph, I believe the parent is trying to say that merely improving developer skills is not valuable to the company, not that improving developer skills cannot provide value in terms of improved work product, morale, retention, etc.