They arent stupid they are reckless and agile (well half agile. Continuously fail at infrastructure).

I have done boutiqe devops for software teams thay make stuff i guarantee you use everyday. They never learn.

Thanks man. I derided cloud naysayers in my office and they are the ones without jobs now. The ones who refuse to use github, automate anything or learn linux in 2017.

LOL this is the best one I heard all day. I spend my entire day cleaning up developer's messes and re-architecting (that would imply it was architected in the first place, right) their mindbogglingly stupid bottlenecks? And then fixing their code and pulling a branch for them.
Then I fix the database they broke with massive wads of binary data. Recovering their data from "sometime, naw shur". Then I pick up the phone in the evening to save their ass and their deadline.

Your computers boot because of good IT.

Never heard of an on-prem cloud? Also, serious question, after Equifax, or any number of hacks, you don't seriously think your data is any better or worse off in a private LAN, that happens to be hosted in the cloud?

I'll admit the cloud is IT's enemy. But IT has to transform in to operations in the cloud. IT is dead. Anyone who doesn't is doomed to customer support, or worse.

Anecdotal- my IT job of like 25 years at the same place just ended a couple of months ago. And I'm not even the oldest relic. I worked in a heavily IT focused shop, data, and physical datacenter operations. I touched my computers all the time, got nice new toys, fancy facilities. For a long time life was good until I closed down my whole physical operations and moved them to some remote faceless facility where I will never touch them (or admin them) again. They will be supported by someone else using my documentation. They will eventually roll it in to some on prem cloud. Sounds sad, and it was kind of like a close friend dying. Anyone with a brain saw it coming but it happened so fast. Anyway it was as depressing as shutting down my multinode BBS for good.

But like getting used to how we roll on the Internet, I found a cloud job (kinda more fun than my old job) right away. Also, it seems that my years of IT experience and skills are terribly needed by the kids running the show amok. They are smart, adaptable, but do not work smartly all the time.

So, in short I've kept my enemy close, and I've learned it's ways. I've come to see my place among their ranks as a hip grey-ish beard. That didn't happen by me fearing the enemy. And life is good for this old BOFH

MS makes mistakes but as you point out are doing and will be- just fine!

I ran those CE devices for development at a large monlithic ancient corporation kind of like these companies we're discussing.

Its absolutely true what you say and it was my business case for shutting down the embedded device build lab where i work. Zero resistance. Devs just gave up on them

Hardware is the thinnest of margins and Nintendo makes money on every piece, unlikr Sony and MS. Your analysis is lacking

Not a nintendo fanboy here but facts are facts.

Yeah man, Im from there, I remember when it was scorched earth, moonlanding like. Rock climbing for miles and river pollution oh man. Crazy colours ive seen in creeks south of the superstack.

On the drive in on the Kingsway it would feel like another planet, but today there are forests galore. They started planting in the 80s and now it has really improved, there is soil again, less bareface rock, and the air is so much better.

GM had these problems all the time until they went to three or four unified platforms. Every ititial iteration of a platform has trouble. This is as true for hardware as it is for software in any industry.

He is building 2 new platforms from scratch.

So why are you or any investors surprised?

Its not racist, its a reference to a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters. This is how the sausage is made.

This should wash out. If companies invested in training, they could simply hire someone that was trained somewhere else.
And then the differentiator would be institutional knowledge.

Its crap all the way down thats for sure. I haven't had decent training in a decade. But I'm the type that goes an gets my own anyway.

I cannot argue with that. It may prove to be an important qualifier when dealing with future replicants.

This is a great poiny most people fail to understand. AI is automation that is indistinguishable from a human. Not intelligence that thinks like a human

Right now AI is seeing an explosion in its cognitive abilities mostly in the areas of natural language and data mining (long term memory). Mainly because our sensors are getting better and we finally have the general computing to handle the large datasets. As little as 20y ago were were developing processing,sensor and big data areas (we lacked datasets to feed the AI). Where do we go from there? there are at least three pillars of AI that require further development:

Parallelism, natural language, and data. Or without buzzwords:

Processing,communication,datagathering/retreival

Its cheap calories in the form of junk food. Good food has gotten so expensive more and more people are sustaining themselves on huge amounts of junk calories as discount prices. We are advertised to relentlessly by brands whose ingredients while stable and nontoxic contain almost no useful nutrition or substantially less than the un processed real mccoy.

Do we see vegans who no doubt drink this water suffering from obesity?

Im not a vegan but i eat ok and enjoy a little junk food and excercise but the answer is obvious if you just glance at the data all around you

LOLOL, I dunno for now it pays my bills, Im less principled on the matter.