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I think we're hitting peak tech. All this "technical" knowledge just dates itself in a year's time anyway. Eventually, you come to realise that the more tech y
by tamrix 6y ago
I think we're hitting peak tech. All this "technical" knowledge just dates itself in a year's time anyway.
Eventually, you come to realise that the more tech you've got, the more problems you have. .
Now developers spend more time googling errors and plugging in libraries and webservices together than writing any actual code.
Sometimes I wish for a techless cloudless revolution when we just go back to the foundations of computers and is use plain text wherever possible.
- adwn 6y ago> Sometimes I wish for a techless cloudless revolution when we just go back to the foundations of computers and is use plain text wherever possible. ... because software in the 60s/70s/80s was so reliable and bug-free?!
- mrmonkeyman 6y agoIt actually was. Shocking, isn't it?
- Nextgrid 6y agoIt most likely had less moving parts & failure modes than a modern microservice mess.
- a_imho 6y agoMy point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as “lines produced” but as “lines spent”: the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger. I'm yet to encounter a point in my career where KISS fails me. OTOH this is nothing new, I don't have my hopes up that the current trends of overcomplicating things are going to change in the near future.