Not obviously, but it sounds like she is making a connection you don’t know what is.
You should ask her to explain what she means, so you’ll either understand that oh it was sexist didn’t think about it like that, or disagree on some knowable point.
Looking forwards to all the blog posts from tech bros losing data, money, or getting hacked from this. They will be surprised that it could happen that bad, and they will feel shitty and upset.
And I will struggle to find sympathy through all my schadenfreude and piles of told-you-so-a-million-times.
Don’t say “impressive productivity gains” when they are doing less and worse.
Yeah it got bought up by Microsoft and Meta at the same time. They are using it to lay off people.
“Be gentle,” I whispered to the rock and let it go. It fell down and bruised my pinky toe. Very ungently.
Should we worry about this behavior of rock? I should write for Futurism.
Never have I felt so annoyed that my country isn’t part of EU. Wish I could give a vote.
While that answer is correct, “professional help” isn’t a thing most people can just pick up from the grocery store, so to speak.
Knowing what type of help to ask for, getting affirmation that they need help at all, how to describe the problem, whether it has any other known names, etc are very valuable resources that people can only really get from asking friends or online forums.
I need to go through my GP to get “professional help”, and the waiting list for non-urgent appointments are 1-2 months. I would for sure be stuck for months or years in “stressed or burnt out maybe rest some” if I tried to bring up that my inner voice is mean to me.
If I went to my GP with the phrasing, clarity and clues I would get from answers in this thread, I might actually eventually get a psychiatrist.
“We are gonna use MechaHitler for good we promise”
Yeah I don’t think we actually disagree much here. :)
I think my angle is just slightly different? I see that ease of access (eg cloud) make it possible for a lot more uncurious and clock-out people to enter the field and pass as competent. To be honest, even the modest introduction of auto-formatting editors are easy to see as good and useful, but I also feel that they allowed shoddy work to look passable at first glance. AI will make this a lot worse.
But as for the actual people who have it in them to be competent, people that were always there and still are, cloud is not going to make them worse.
Sorry if I missed it, but did he have any thoughts on the 40th anniversary edition?
The Steam trailers don’t make it look good. High-fidelity models with low-fidelity movement kida graphics that feels off-putting and disconnected. Like the HoMM HD remake or the hi-res Minecraft graphics mods.
I understand.
Obviously, “knowing which cloud services to enable” is a lesser skill than knowing how those services work. That is not a parallel or equal skill in any way.
But do you assume people are just going drrrrr brain off when they don’t learn that one skillset you are accustomed to spotting?
You are making strong assumptions on her motivations, and then judging those motivations as stupid. Her sins are in your imagination only.
Alternative reading: A cool lady who does what makes her happy and give zero fucks if she confuses people.
Or alternatively: A lady and I do not need to have opinions on her, really.
Good. Creep pics of strangers is fucking disgusting.
Yeah I can see that.
However, you are now arguing a different point than I am getting from your original post. Maybe my fault in interpretation ofc, but the main difference (in my view) is:
You say “incompetent” and “less skilled” as general statements on senior engineers. Those statements are false.
You also say “missing the skills you are looking for” which is obviously true.
And the implication that before cloud, people developed the specific skills you need more naturally - because they had to. This makes sense and I believe it.
That being said, I am genuinely frustrated by how little people know or care about the plumbing these days. :D
I am so fucking tired of seeing someone spin up 3 cloud databases for what could be a 40k in-memory hashtable.
That is technically correct in a way, but I’ll argue very wrong in a meaningful way.
Cloud services are meant to let you focus less on the plumbing, so naturally many skills in that will not be developed, and skills adjacent to it will be less developed.
Buttttt you must assume effort remains constant!
So you get to focus more on other things now. E.g. functional programming, product thinking, rapid prototyping, API stuff, breadth of languages, etc. I bet the seniors you are missing X and Y in have bigger Zs and also some Qs that you may not be used to consider, or have the experience to spot and evaluate.
Someone made a modified version of Quake back in the day, that rendered to stereoscopic 3D in a white noise pattern.
It was such a mindfuck to play!
You get 3D depth but no colors or shades or contrast. It’s just shapes moving. So doors that were flush with the wall were impossible to see, but enemies in dark rooms were fully visible because there is no light or dark.
I like to imagine I got to experience what a bat sees with echolocation.
Yes. I can change my vision’s focal point and focus distance at will, so it’s usually easy even though my eyesight is getting fucky with age.
Muh business model :'(
Me neither, but if they are being presented as “artificial people to chat with” they must.
I’d rather LLMs stay tools, not pretend people.
Some of the LLMs referred to are advertised as AI psychological help, so they must either act like psychologists (which they can’t) or stop being allowed as digital therapists.