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points by seethishat 3 days ago | 0 comments
Non-technical managers don't want to wait for the 'nerds' to 'do it right' because that takes a long time and the nerds don't agree on how best to solve the problem because most capable nerds (who sort of know what they are doing) are working on lower-level problems and making the big bucks (they are not running WordPress for the local News Paper).

So that leaves non-technical managers telling non-technical nerds to just install WordPress. Then, AI comes along and wipes them out. And everyone is like... how did this happen?

It's pretty obvious.

[–] SoftTalker 3 days ago
And, we know how to write code properly if that's what is required. There are methodologies from avionics and other critical code where every line of code has an audit trail back to a requirement. Where malloc is disallowed. If you want to compare it to other engineering, there are skyscrapers and there are doghouses. Most software is doghouses.
[–] jimbokun 3 days ago
> Most software is doghouses.

This is not completely a bad thing. Using skyscraper techniques for dog houses is not sustainable.

The key is to identify when you are working on a skyscraper and when you're working on a dog house and act accordingly. To my mind, the boundary between the two is whether or not you are handling sensitive personally identifiable or financial data.

[–] dennis_jeeves2 3 days ago
>Non-technical managers don't want to wait for the 'nerds' to 'do it right' because that takes a long time and the nerds don't agree on how best to solve the problem because most capable nerds (who sort of know what they are doing) are working on lower-level problems and making the big bucks (they are not running WordPress for the local News Paper).

>So that leaves non-technical managers telling non-technical nerds to just install WordPress.

Good summary of how the world operates generally everywhere. It's a clown world.