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I remember the days when Greybeards would look down on me for using Google in my first IT job, they would harp on about how real Sysadmins use man pages and O’R
by oceanplexian 3y ago
I remember the days when Greybeards would look down on me for using Google in my first IT job, they would harp on about how real Sysadmins use man pages and O’Reilly books to solve problems, and if you tried to Google something you were incompetent. I had college professors that told me you can’t use the Internet for research because the Internet is a not a legitimate source of information, only libraries can have real information.
What happened to all those folks? They retired, and turned into Boomers who are now unable to function in society at a basic level and do things like online banking or operate a smartphone.
- esafak 3y agoOn the other hand, they knew how their hardware worked. And if LLMs keep improving, we're going to reach the last generation that knew how software worked.
- zerbinxx 3y agoWe’re pretty close. I’m not sure that 51% of the people I work with understand what DNS is, what a call stack is, what the difference between inheritance and polymorphism is, or what a mutex is
- nonrandomstring 3y agoWhen I'm retired, sitting on the beach with my beer and a good book, please don't come bothing me that your smartphone banking and GPT arse-wiping assistant has gone berserk. You're on your own matey. But hey, you'll have Google.