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by m0llusk 2039 days ago
This seems quite out of touch with reality as far as I can tell. It is possible to see Facebook in his analysis, but what about the latest generation of ultrasound medical devices? Having done a lot of release engineering and now "devops" I have found that in reality the essential work of attending logs, understanding changes and configuration management, composing and executing basic scripts, is actually well within reach of ordinary people and employees with hardly any relevant training often end up handling daily tasks in technology development. One of the confounding factors is that tech companies tend to pick up ordinary people from the tech developer dominated local areas where they operate, but the trend toward remote work might have an effect on that.