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It's only going to get worse. There's a storm coming. The ageing open source engineers who hold up the whole house of cards cannot keep going indefinitely. It's
by myprotegeai 2y ago
It's only going to get worse. There's a storm coming. The ageing open source engineers who hold up the whole house of cards cannot keep going indefinitely. It's going to turn into tragedy of the commons very quickly.
- shiroiushi 2y agoThis is one of many reasons humanity really needs to work on anti-aging and life extension therapies. If we can make these old-timer maintainers biologically immortal, we won't have to worry about this stuff collapsing one day.
- kjs3 2y agoSo instead of doing a tedious, thankless, unpaid job for 10, 20, 30 years, I can do it for 100, 200 or 300. Sounds awesome.
- shiroiushi 2y agoI'm not advocating that you do this tedious, thankless, unpaid job for 300 years: apparently, there's already people who actually want to, for whatever unfathomable reason, so I'm advocating that those people be given the means to do so indefinitely.
- kjs3 2y agoI know what you are 'advocating': science fiction solutions to real problems.
- shiroiushi 2y agoWhat's wrong with that? It's not like anyone has any more feasible solutions to these problems.
- kjs3 2y agoIf you actually read any of this thread you'd see many feasible suggestions for how to fix the problem (better communications methods, improved tooling, adapting to how younger developers engage, etc., etc.). And if you really paid attention, you would notice absolutely none of them start with "first, invent science that doesn't exist...".
- binary132 2y ago"we just need to invent living forever in the next 10 years or we're cooked" doesn't sound like a plan to me maybe a nice plan B