Because AI is a new product category in tech, and every single new product category in tech always, no exceptions, insists on learning nothing from history, and so the dumb shit is repeated until they learn their own lessons.

I am almost 40, and I have seen the same pattern play out several times now, it’s always the same.

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giancarlostoro 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> Because AI is a new product category in tech, and every single new product category in tech always, no exceptions, insists on learning nothing from history, and so the dumb shit is repeated until they learn their own lessons.

I'm only half a decade behind you, and I agree. Sad to see really, these are people who work really hard, but I think they are too focused on the algos and nobody is hiring experienced back-end and application builders.

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ChrisMarshallNY an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, I feel that.

The ageism in tech probably has something to do with it.

When I see some of these brobdingnagian disasters, I always wonder if there were any adults in the room, when the idea was greenlighted.

	▲	antonvs an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Ageism is definitely part of it, but most people just don't seem to care to learn in general, and of course the incentives are against it. They'd rather treat the general version of Greenspun's 10th rule as a commandment, and create a new, ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of some fraction of whatever already addresses the requirement, than learn about how to use some existing tool that they don't already know. One of my favorite examples is a company that home-rolled their own version of (a subset of) Kubernetes, ending up with a fabulously fragile monstrosity that none of the devs want to touch any more, and those who do quickly regret it.