@ins0mniak so if linux sysadmins generally code and script well, is it a really sin to conflate IT and programming interchangeably? I defer to his grace Pope @p .@judgedread@poa.st


Personally I think its more of a sin to conflate programmers with sysadmins. Some OG programmers (which are actually genuine programming-language-fluent computer scientists and engineers) know about computers outside of some coding dialect, but the typical React front end dev doesn’t know jack about ports, network traffic or how to do subnets and system config.

I would love if there was a global AI outage for 2 weeks to watch the fatcats squirm, manually googling and trying to figure out stack overflow after they “retired” so many computer engineers.