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Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent (loudwhisper.me)
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My take on how a decade (or more) of using cloud services for everything has seemingly deskilled the workforce.

Just recently I found myself interviewing senior security engineers just to realize that in many cases they had absolutely no idea about how the stuff they supposedly worked with, actually worked.

This all made me wonder, is it possible that over-reliance on cloud services for everything has massively deskilled the engineering workforce? And if it is so, who is going to be the European clouds, so necessary for EU's digital sovereignty?

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[โ€“] Deestan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I don't think we actually disagree much here. :)

I think my angle is just slightly different? I see that ease of access (eg cloud) make it possible for a lot more uncurious and clock-out people to enter the field and pass as competent. To be honest, even the modest introduction of auto-formatting editors are easy to see as good and useful, but I also feel that they allowed shoddy work to look passable at first glance. AI will make this a lot worse.

But as for the actual people who have it in them to be competent, people that were always there and still are, cloud is not going to make them worse.

[โ€“] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

I guess my point is that it's harder to suss out the actually competent people if they're able to build a good portfolio using tools. AI makes this harder, since they can sound more competent than they are, and them a few months down the line we need to discuss them leaving the org.