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Maybe, but don’t forget that whatever geniuses are desperate enough to take that job will be following the orders of a man who doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing.
For example, Space X has some good engineers on their team, I’m sure, but the shuttles still leaked piss because Musk is the one calling the shots in the end.
As long as capitalism gives unearned leadership power to the rich and stupid, there is nowhere for these places to go but down, eventually.
I have worked as an SRE, and I think you’re being just a little impatient. If the previous engineers were good, it will take a while for problems to build to the point that something really breaks. Give it like 3 months.
that is, definitionally, not institutional knowledge. maybe they can keep the wheels from falling off for a while by finding cheap, disposable labor, but that’s only creating exponentially more problems. like i understand and agree with the vague sentiment that computer jobs are all made up bullshit, but that’s because their products are useless/evil, not because labor is somehow unnecessary to production or because they’re not legitimately professional.
It’s also true that a lot of the ancillary labor that goes into these companies is bullshit in someway. Like every boss having a secretary to berate, or the marketing department. They do work, but it’s of no discernable benefit to society. Software engineering is an intellectual labor, and a potentially very valuable one at that. But it’s best value is for building the kind of infrastructure that would destroy capitalism, so instead we do stupid shit with this labor.
They also fired workers in the third world though who are paid a fraction of first world workers.
I’m not sure what it is that Musk wants. Sure, they can hire cheap outsourced third world labour for some of the stuff but that still requires extensive training.
The employees there are being forced to work 60+ hours a week now
And it’s been less than a month
