<div dir="auto">IME IT has 'died' every 4yrs, as technology changes fads come and go the jobe constantly changes and adapts to the 'new normal' .<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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'. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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'.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 18:53 Warner Losh <<a href="mailto:imp@bsdimp.com">imp@bsdimp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 4:03 PM Dan Langille <<a href="mailto:dan@langille.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dan@langille.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Sat, Mar 28, 2020, at 10:25 PM, George Rosamond wrote:<br>
> A novel idea... if you forget that behind the SASE network is a bunch of<br>
> servers. Deskilling has been going on without question, that's<br>
> undeniable....<br>
> <br>
> <a href="https://www.cringely.com/2020/03/25/2020-brings-the-death-of-it/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cringely.com/2020/03/25/2020-brings-the-death-of-it/</a><br>
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The death of programming has been talking about for several decades.<br>
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Hasn't happened yet.<br>
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I see no reason to take the article seriously.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In other news BSD is dying.</div><div><br></div><div>Warner </div></div></div>
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