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Are Hackers the New Luddites? [audio]

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Do you feel the fundamental precepts of programming don’t generally hold true regardless of the application of the technology?

if you spend your days design algorithms yeah but if you assemble vue or angular components I think it's much different.

I’ve found Engineering to be similar. A relatively small percentage of engineers are actually crunching numbers in the academic sense. Most of the work is around learning a limited number of tools that may not translate effectively into another position

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You don't have to look hard to find stories of people running up huge cloud infrastructure bills by using it improperly. Engineers in general poorly understand the connection between their code and resources consumed. Until something bites them and they learn. I'd say that this is pretty widespread throughout the industry.

I know there are plenty of engineers with those gaps, and they learn from experience, as one does. My issue was with the statement that all backend engineers you work with (hundreds of them!) have this weakness. Does not match my experience, so I was wondering where you work.

A mid-sized, already-public SaaS company.
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