> modern software engineers are already hybrids because they are joined at the hip with supercomputing systems
Yes... the problem is, the engineers are not getting any help from those supercomputing systems.
Instead, after having considerable progress in terms of the amount of help engineers were getting from the computer systems they were using, this mandatory "going to the cloud" is associated with considerable regress in convenience and engineering productivity. It almost feels that the progress of the first decade of this century achieved in this sense (how much the computer system helps a software engineer) was erased during the second decade, because of how inconvenient those cloud systems tend to be, and how much people are forced to use them... So instead of programming becoming easier, it was getting more difficult again, mostly not for fundamental reasons, but for reasons of various social pathologies (both cloud-related, and of other kinds too).
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Date: 2020-02-22 07:16 am (UTC)Yes... the problem is, the engineers are not getting any help from those supercomputing systems.
Instead, after having considerable progress in terms of the amount of help engineers were getting from the computer systems they were using, this mandatory "going to the cloud" is associated with considerable regress in convenience and engineering productivity. It almost feels that the progress of the first decade of this century achieved in this sense (how much the computer system helps a software engineer) was erased during the second decade, because of how inconvenient those cloud systems tend to be, and how much people are forced to use them... So instead of programming becoming easier, it was getting more difficult again, mostly not for fundamental reasons, but for reasons of various social pathologies (both cloud-related, and of other kinds too).
I should probably re-read Bill Joy...