big kahuna wrote:
SH wrote:
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I've been (and still am, on occasion) a journalist. "Yellow journalism"? In The Atlantic? To paraphrase the immortal Inigo Montoya (and you should be prepared to die ;-); You keep using that term. I do not think it means what you think it means. ;-)
"The Coming Software Apocalypse". Maybe I'm being too harsh?
As Mr. Trail pointed out, I lifted that hed from another website. But the article makes clear that -- in the writer's opinion (something that layers of fact checkers and editors at The Atlantic, a periodical of some note, approved) -- there could be big trouble looming as the billions and probably trillions of changes to software code in a myriad of important systems in existence today may be starting to overwhelm coders's ability to keep up. But there's hope that such a circumstance won't come to pass, certainly -- and the article makes that clear as well.
I think it's clear in this thread, as
Mr. Rusty, among others, have pointed out, that the programmers here and participating in this colloquy are maybe being a bit defensive. Why is that, do you suppose? Are us tech noodges and kludgy amateurs suddenly going to rise up and line those coders up against the wall, in the style of The Matrix, and do them in? I think not. At least, not until AI takes over and gets rid of all the competition. LOL!
Could it be that non-IT people are blaming IT for things being complicated when it is their own fault?
IT likes elegant code, clean, short, efficient. Then 90% of the way through a project business changes their mind and wants some additions. IT doesn't come in with the business requirements. And they have to change directions.
It is easy to blame technology but every time you say, 'hey, wouldn't it be cool to just send a message this way' IT has to jump.
Son, we live in a world that has technological needs, and those technological needs have to be coded by men and women with brains. Who's gonna do it? You? You, BK? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Duffy and you curse the coders. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know; that Fortran's death, while tragic, probably saved money. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saved time and money. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that keyboard. You need me on that keyboard. We use words like platform, code, cloud. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent creating something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very technology that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you sit at a keyboard and start typing. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to!
I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.
