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...Someone else who thinks of actual web applications as an abstraction. In the olden days, we used to throw it over to "Ops" and say, "your problem now." And
by ebiester 2y ago
...Someone else who thinks of actual web applications as an abstraction.
In the olden days, we used to throw it over to "Ops" and say, "your problem now."
And Junior developers have always been overwhelmed with the details and under pressure to deliver enough to keep their job. None of this is new! I'm a graybeard now, but I remember seniors having the same complaints back then. "Kids these days" never gets old.
- conductr 2y agoI get what you’re saying, but at the same time I feel like I encounter the real world results of this erosion constantly. While we have more software than ever, it all just kind of feels janky these days. I encounter errors in places I never had before, doing simple things. The other day I was doing a simple copy and paste operation (it was some basic csv formatted text from vs code to excel iirc) and I encountered a Windows (not excel or vs code) error prompt that my clipboard data had been lost in the time it took me to Alt+Tab and Ctrl+v, something I’ve been doing ~daily for 3 decades without any issues. I’m more of a solo full stack dev and don’t really have first hand experience building software at scale and the process it takes to manage a codebase the size of the Windows OS, but these are the kinds of issues I see regularly these days and wouldn’t in the past. I also use macOS daily for almost as long and the Apple software has really tanked in terms of quality, I hit bugs and unexpected errors regularly. I generally don’t use their software (Safari, Mail, etc) when I can avoid it. Also have to admit lack of features is a big issue for me on their software.