Yes, please list the people who know how to work with the STEEM API, and please list them here publicly so we all can find out how to actually use this platform the way it was intended to be used. Great idea Ned!
Maybe even setup a page here on Steemit or a website where these select individuals, who can do what mere mortals are incapable of, are listed and have it updated to show who is actually available to answer questions or consult.
And most importantly, show us the rare individual that is available to work on a project other than their own instead of expecting the general public to know who these individuals are, track them down, message them all, wait for a response, only to find out none of them are available.
Even better, provide usable documentation with examples in one location so that others can easily learn how to do what your select magi's have figured out "without any coaching", because they are truly a dying breed it appears and I have serious doubts about the "without any coaching" part.
Start with this. https://steemit.github.io/steemit-docs/
And I'll get you a list of names to follow.
Seriously? Those are the docs? Someone listed the RPC API commands and then posted example outputs. I mean it is better than nothing, but to understand how to use these effectively, you'd have to study the code or spend an hour of trial and error on each command. Just pay someone to make some docs. Maybe it will cost a month of salary for them to experiment with these commands and intelligibly report and format what they discover.
You want to know what good docs look like? Here: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-1.13.0/reference/
those are great!
there's also these: http://steem.readthedocs.io/en/latest/steem.html
yep