and this works well enough almost all the time but then one day they run into a problem caused by something underneath the abstraction and are totally fucked
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webdevs should know enough C/C++ to have intuitions about how their languages are likely implemented and be able to read the implementations if needed, C devs should know their archs' assemblies, etc
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this is perfectly reasonable to demand of ppl imo, expecting everyone to know "everything" under them (chip fab? EE?) probably isn't
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but anyway the real issue is once more "programming" shifts from writing compiled/interpreted languages to offloading more work to machine learning frameworks they have zero understanding of the math behind
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where they have some inputs and some desired outputs and as far as they know everything that happens in between is a magic black box because hackernews told them they don't need to know linear algebra
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and these people are easily >90% of the field lol
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sorry for writing a blog post lol anyway the paradox is standards are both higher than most people can achieve and much lower than they should be because most people in the industry are worse than useless
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It's really interesting! One of my takeaways is that it's cheaper (in the short-term) to pay e.g. people who know Rails but nothing below it to put together and run the product, then periodically bring in $$$ consultants to deal with the issues it causes
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oh definitely, the worst part is all this is probably fairly well incentives-aligned
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People aren't optimizing for safety or completeness, though, and neither are their bosses. It's about driving business value (that's a steelman, I know things don't work that well in practice)
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honestly most of the time I don't even know the level I'm working on directly, nm one down
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even more so for infosec
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