arclight on Nostr: Note that this isn't a "back in my day..." post as much as a description of how easy ...

Note that this isn't a "back in my day..." post as much as a description of how easy it is to get screwed over by _deterministic_ tools in an environment you mostly control. Modern systems have so many layers abstraction between an admin and the actual hardware, there are so many hidden points of failure and latent vulnerabilities that a) it's understandable that someone with tenuous employment (i.e. contractor held to a Jira ticket clearance rate or time window) would turn to a chatbot especially if chatbot use was now a KPI and a mandate, and b) if we couldn't avoid Blackboard-level disasters in an age of deterministic tools and more mentally tractable architectures, what makes anyone believe a chatbot can do any better today? We've painted ourselves into a corner chasing velocity and scale and layer upon layer of abstraction and the same people pushing all this are now pushing the magic expensive pirated text extrusion engine as a solution.

Do you honestly need all that to build a stupid web page?

"If I want to meet my KPIs and keep my pittance of health insurance I do."

I can't fault that logic but seriously wonder why more tech workers haven't invested more of their energy into unions and guillotines. That supposes there's any discretionary energy and support networks left and that anything can survive the decades of libertarian propaganda. I suppose the silver lining in all this is with chatbots, you don't need to organize and recruit saboteurs to fight back; the whole system has evolved to tear itself apart on its own.