At least they tell you. I’ve had inputs take the full password and then truncate it silently, so you don’t actually know what they saved. Then, you try to login and they tell you wrong password.

“Shift left” by doing all the work yourself

Plan, design, code, test, debug, deploy, handle incidents, it’s all your job!

This is all nice, but overall weak. American tech is on track to dominate the world. We need to step up the quality and incentives to make these services the defacto standard.

Bro, I worked for a company that literally offered us and non-technical staff a coding boot camp. I asked if I could be promoted if I did the boot camp since they were offering it to people a level above me. I already knew everything in the boot camp, as did everyone I worked with. They refused. But, then they also laid my team and I off a month later and some how kept all the people that did the boot camp. It made no damn sense. It’s like the higher ups had no idea what a boot camp was, but thought it would be cutting edge and innovative if it was offered. They were clueless. Meanwhile, they cut everyone with those skills.

Like what?

Had errors like this once. Wracked our brains for hours. Eventually realized we had an old version of the code running on some hosts and the new version running alongside it on others. The code had changed enough that the line numbers didn’t make sense anymore.

It’s literally this. I worked software for a financial company and we were considered a cost center. It showed in how they cut corners.

At what point is it cheaper to disconnect from the grid and just use solar with a back up generator? 50 cents+ per kWh is insane.