> I am so sick of these shoesalesman trying to get you to adopt their platform which runs on another platform which runs itself on wishful thinking and startdus

> I am so sick of these shoesalesman trying to get you to adopt their platform which runs on another platform which runs itself on wishful thinking and startdust. I think you misunderstood basically everything about this post. The author is not saying to adopt the author's platform, the author is saying that beyond a certain scale, every org is actually building their own internal platform whether they elect to view it that way or not: the author is arguing the opposite of what you describe in this sentence. > You dont get people who do "DevOps" fresh out of college or people that have been barely using a computer for some time. You get the dudes with experience, but every time someone with experience makes up one of these buzzwords like "platform engineer" "lord of the box" or whatever, tons of people just assume the role without having the experience. did you even read the post? From the post: > We have an industry-wide shortage of expertise in the cloud space, a great IDP should have safe, dependable building blocks for designing cloud services quickly. The ... entire argument is that you need strong foundations and reusable building blocks, and those things take expertise to build specifically because most product engineers do not have or want that expertise. Your whole argument is describing something the post isn't saying.