Although trained in physics, I worked in the computing industry with pride and purpose for over 40 years. And now I can do nothing but sit back and watch it destroy itself for no valid reason beyond hubris (if I'm being charitable).
Ineffable sadness watching something I once loved deliberately lose its soul.
I spent my time trying to make it better. Not just write code, but find better or at least different ways to do so. Simpler, cleaner, more general, more comprehensible.
What's happening today is a complete repudiation of everything I was trying to achieve.
@robpike you, and others like you, are exactly the ones to question it, gramps. You, and the academics and the ethicists and professors and unions and legislators.
And we should listen.
Respectfully, gingerly, I must say that riding out the hellstorm the Soulless Ones have wrought on the world and then retiring when it gets to be utterly unbearable isn't the optimal outcome for anyone.
I wish we could have all said something and particularly done something when we all saw this going positively Babylonian a decade and a half ago.
I'm absolutely not pointing the finger at anyone or trying to say "you should'a done more," but I say to all of us, "we should have done more."
The roadmap is not hard to grasp.
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