alt Hacker NewsAnd how will you have the skill to go hunting inside the box if all you ever do is high level systems work?
Even if you're relying on extremely thorough test and validation, well someone who understands things at a low level has to write said tests and validations.
So long as humans are legally liable, this approach will only work until someone gets sued. Which means human experts will need to still exist and be trained, perhaps their training will just have to be more explicit rather than gained through the act of building products. Companies will hate this.
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dist-epoch • yesterday at 8:32 PM
Less than 0.1% of programmers are legally liable for the software they write.
How do I personally have the skill? I built it the old fashioned way: decades of doing this, starting with vi and hand coding assembly, through IDEs and high level languages, and now with distributed tracing on ephemeral serverless deployments.
How do juniors develop it? Yeah, that's the tough part. Those years spent slogging through very tedious work got me here. You have to exercise to build muscle. Maybe we need to find some way to let people exercise the skills without the hands-on slog? I'm honestly not sure, how are you seeing it handled where you are?