Never have I felt so annoyed that my country isn’t part of EU. Wish I could give a vote.

“Oh no do we have to bleed for the wars we keep pushing for?”

“We are gonna use MechaHitler for good we promise”

Well yeah, he already ordered police to fire rubber coated steel slugs at press and protesters in Washington, killing and maiming several US citizens.

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 don’t think Russia’s first target if they ever manage to attack deeper into Europe will be France, the nation with “nuclear warning shot” in their nuclear weapons doctrine.

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?

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.

Should Iran near a critical threshold again, unspoken measures may come into play — ones with potentially irreversible consequences.

What is this vague dramatic tension referring to?

The school principal asked the kitchen staff to buy the paint online

officers had to search for the supplies which had been hidden.

The paint was clearly marked as inedible

I’m amazed if a single person employed at this school is not going to prison.

Muh business model :'(

Was considering a new switch, but may hold off now.

Which tablets do you have in mind? I could not find any suitable for anything but phone games via touch screen and unimpressive battery, but I don’t really know this market