Another previous Submarine Nuclear ET here. I agree with you, and it's interesting to look back and realize how many of my outspoken opinions and ideals are si

Another previous Submarine Nuclear ET here. I agree with you, and it's interesting to look back and realize how many of my outspoken opinions and ideals are simply due to internalizing Rickover's Philosophies. I agree with them, sometimes to my detriment. I actually had to leave both the Submarine and Nuclear world after an injury, but stayed on in the Aviation and Expeditionary Warfare world until I hit 22 years. I cannot tell you how many times I made enemies by insisting on his lessons in those communities, but I got results. Enough so that I had to fight to retire; they wanted me to stay as long as they could hold me and stick me in another problem spot. One example that may apply for those on this site (and I'm not trying to make this example for YOU, this is just one I hammer on) is the practice of just pulling in a ton of dependancies without understanding what they do, what you are trying to do, etc. I get that things need to move faster in business to make a profit, but I cannot and will not condone that type of philosophy. Look at the recent slew of compromises due to exactly this behavior, the ballooning system requirements due to it, etc. LLM coding is another such issue; we are going to have a ton of programmers who have no idea how to structure something from a plain sheet of paper, who can't trace down issues in complex code because they don't even know how to read it and chart program flow, etc.