Its absolutely hilarious to me that in software we have all these computers and yet "management"/"leadership" tracks things by some combination of gut feelings and bullshit spreadsheets/wiki pages.
Its deer in the headlights when I suggest we use the computers to audit and track the computers.
But we know why that is. Tech is the last bastion of the middle class in this rape and pillage extractionist economy we have. Tech is backwards enough, built in the artistic ruins of techno-libertarian dreams of silicon valley and we don't dare change it. Just like medieval farms with their strange rules on who got to use what land and harvest what trees, rules so complex that you need a collection of managing lower lords who knew the local customs for the king to extract value from the land (software). This industry is kept in its insane state a means of protecting all of our jobs that don't have to exist.
When running computers ceases being bullshit, most of us are going to join the ranks of everyone else in the overly optimized manufacturing and service jobs all scraping to get by.
The fact is that computers automate most tedious parts of business and personal workflows. But not everyone can "computer-speak". Here come the programmers and for a time, it was sane. Then people wanted more automation and tech companies started selling software. Productivity ramped up, but the foundation is mostly porcelain, fragile to any changes in business workflow. Whenever we got a more resilient piece of software, that because it went back to "computer-speak".
So the choice is either a horde of programmers maintaining the fragile machinery or getting everyone to know "computer-speak". We were getting to the the second option when everyone knew that you have to take a training course to use a computer properly, but now they're presented as "intuitive" (aka magic, so no need to learn anything) and we're back to the first option. Now they're emphasizing the "magic" aspect with AI, meaning bullshit can happen.
I'll be worried when people chose the bullshit instead of getting results.
I recently listened to a CEO go on and on about Generation Z and Millennials this and that. He read a bunch of articles and is trying to shift the org to welcome in Gen Z who want: "a million dollars for nothing", "the company to adapt to them" etc. And thats why we have bring your dog to work and unlimited PTO. I would say he needs to hire a consultant instead but that sounds worse.
It's abject panic in CEO world these days. After that rant and a lecture on being engaged, he banned gym shoes and T-shirts.
I looked around and noticed that all the people wearing T-shirts and gym shoes were 50+.
Its deer in the headlights when I suggest we use the computers to audit and track the computers.
But we know why that is. Tech is the last bastion of the middle class in this rape and pillage extractionist economy we have. Tech is backwards enough, built in the artistic ruins of techno-libertarian dreams of silicon valley and we don't dare change it. Just like medieval farms with their strange rules on who got to use what land and harvest what trees, rules so complex that you need a collection of managing lower lords who knew the local customs for the king to extract value from the land (software). This industry is kept in its insane state a means of protecting all of our jobs that don't have to exist.
When running computers ceases being bullshit, most of us are going to join the ranks of everyone else in the overly optimized manufacturing and service jobs all scraping to get by.