Will GallegoJun 7, 2023

Charity Majors on stage at DevOps Days NYC: "The cost of code isn't the writing, it's the maintaining. And ChatGPT will prove that right."

For sure on this. We can churn out lots of code with tooling, but "will it work?" and "will it be maintainable?" are *very* different things.

Show threadWill GallegoJun 7, 2023

"Any asshole can spin up a bunch of AWS instances. It takes staff+ to run *less* code".

Charity not disappointing in strong opinions today

Show threadWill GallegoJun 7, 2023

Charity also mentioned (earlier) how early career eng and even senior eng shouldn't be on platform eng teams.

I want to disagree, but she's probably right. I'm not sure how someone first starting out can have the foundation to help other folks minimize doing the excess work and simplifying their flows (outside of a DevTools-like team).

Pushback welcome, this is my musings and not hers.

Show threadAndy Fleener
@gallego Meh I have had success putting "earlyish career" people on platform teams it can be done. BUT it can effect the velocity at which you build things because clear alignment and goals is always key to a teams success. Platforms are a domain just like anything else an early career engineer would need to learn.
Jun 7, 2023 at 7:55pmWeb
Show threadAndy FleenerJun 7, 2023
@gallego Like generally more senior people can make connections and understand themes more that people with less experience but like that risk is inherent in other domains too. That's why you have domain experts on a team working in that problem space. In the platform case those domain experts happen to generally be engineers.