[talk] "death of IT"

[steve.b at osfda.org]

Yeah, constant change (in PART driven by upsell...)

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1793b?start=365

Never bought Yang's automation argument, other than the fact that this 
country has severely degraded access to quality education (thus 
abandoning people who need it...)

On 3/31/2020 9:54 AM, Brian Coca wrote:
> IME IT has 'died' every 4yrs, as technology changes fads come and go 
> the jobe constantly changes and adapts to the 'new normal' .
>
> The SA is dead ...long live the SRE... at least until we find new 
> names and acronyms to mean ' the people that keep the show running'.
>
>
> The term IT itself has been used to mean very diff things, though a 
> lot of people confuse as 'just helpdesk', those in the know understand 
> it is the lifeblood of automation.
>
>
> The 'IT crowd' has a hilarious scene with the head of IT interviewing 
> for a job but unable to say what the acronym stands for....pretty sure 
> we've all encountered similar people, let them say IT is dead, then 
> turn around and call us 'cause they broke the internetses'.
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 18:53 Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com 
> <mailto:imp at bsdimp.com>> wrote:
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>     On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 4:03 PM Dan Langille <dan at langille.org
>     <mailto:dan at langille.org>> wrote:
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>         On Sat, Mar 28, 2020, at 10:25 PM, George Rosamond wrote:
>         > A novel idea... if you forget that behind the SASE network
>         is a bunch of
>         > servers.  Deskilling has been going on without question, that's
>         > undeniable....
>         >
>         > https://www.cringely.com/2020/03/25/2020-brings-the-death-of-it/
>
>
>         The death of programming has been talking about for several
>         decades.
>
>         Hasn't happened yet.
>
>         I see no reason to take the article seriously.
>
>
>     In other news  BSD is dying.
>
>     Warner
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