| ▲ | dabinat a day ago | |
The more time I spend working in tech, the more I realize that everything important is held together with cardboard and duct tape. | ||
| ▲ | grenbys 21 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
That's because everything really important is not just tech but a socio-technical system of tech+humans operating/building/maintaining that thing. A lot of the things can't/shouldn't be automated with tech (see the Irony of Automations paper) – they are up and running thanks to the resilience (socio-technical quality) which appears as a "cardboard and duct tape" for untrained eye. | ||
| ▲ | camcil a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
True for every industry / field I've worked in, unfortunately (which is more than I'd like to admit). | ||
| ▲ | bombcar a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
You had duct tape? Lucky! | ||
| ▲ | nbaugh1 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Any time people freak out about these kinds of things and assume the absolute worse, I just tell them I’m surprised these things don’t happen more often | ||