One of the problems with computing today is that the system and tools are designed by people outside the 2-sigma bracket.
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When they gather together competitive signalling kicks in and we get ever more complex tools and systems and the rest of 95% of us are left grappling with all the complexity
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now we have reached a stage where our civilization runs on systems which is barely understood by anyone
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Wrote an essay about this 10 years ago 😆
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hmmm, wondering if jobs like full stack engineer, embedded software engineer are appearing because of the reasons you mention in the essay.
I can clearly remember 10 years ago no one posted jobs with like titles "embedded software engineer".
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Full stack is recent but I think I remember embedded software engineer existing before
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yes, embedded software existed but the average lay person in a hw/sw company didn’t know what it was
these days it is quite common terminology in Big Tech and many other places
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Boom in “smart” and IoT devices? TVs, fridges… everything has extra embedded compute now

