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https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

    We Raised a Generation That Doesn’t Know How Anything Works.
    [...]

Примеры когда двадцатилетние *разработчики* не знают как ssh-нутся к
серверу, не знают что такое DNS. А когда случится какая-то поломка --
никто не знает даже как отлаживать или банально запустить tcpdump.

    Mobile Platforms Did the Most Damage, and They Did It on Purpose.
    [...]
    The users who grew up on these platforms don’t know what they’re
    missing. They’ve never used a system where they were genuinely in
    control. The idea that you should be able to run arbitrary code on
    hardware you paid for is foreign to them — not rejected, but simply
    absent as a concept. They’ll defend the restrictions without
    prompting because they’ve internalized the vendor’s framing so
    thoroughly that they experience the cage as comfortable. “I don’t
    want to root my phone, that sounds scary.” Cool. You’ve successfully
    trained yourself to be afraid of ownership. The platform vendors are
    proud of you.

Соглашусь со всем написанным.

    The Culture Rotted and Nobody Noticed Until It Was Gone.
    [...]
    The users who grew up on these platforms don’t know what they’re
    missing. They’ve never used a system where they were genuinely in
    control. The idea that you should be able to run arbitrary code on
    hardware you paid for is foreign to them — not rejected, but simply
    absent as a concept. They’ll defend the restrictions without
    prompting because they’ve internalized the vendor’s framing so
    thoroughly that they experience the cage as comfortable. “I don’t
    want to root my phone, that sounds scary.” Cool. You’ve successfully
    trained yourself to be afraid of ownership. The platform vendors are
    proud of you.
    [...]
    The YouTube tutorial is the perfect emblem of this rot. Tutorials
    are not documentation. A tutorial teaches you to perform a specific
    sequence of steps to achieve a specific outcome.
    [...]
    The man page is dead for most users. The RFC is unread by most
    developers who depend on the protocols it describes. Stack Overflow,
    which used to be a genuinely valuable resource for understanding why
    things behaved certain ways, has become a paste-and-pray operation:
    scan for a code snippet that looks related to your problem, copy it,
    run it, hope it works. When it doesn’t, find another snippet. The
    understanding never enters the loop. LLMs have accelerated this to a
    degree that should make anyone who cares about software quality
    genuinely alarmed. You can now write complete programs without
    understanding what a single line of them does, and the programs will
    often work well enough in the happy path that you’ll never know how
    thoroughly you don’t understand what you’ve built until something
    goes wrong in production at two in the morning and you are
    completely without tools to respond. This is what the culture has
    normalized: outcomes without understanding, solutions without
    models. And the response when you point this out is “okay but who
    has time for that,” as if understanding were a productivity cost
    rather than the entire point.

Тоже со всем согласен. Офигеваю от того, что на выдачу чисто по
техническому ИТ вопросу выпадает 80% YouTube клипов как, предположим,
запустить SSH демон, вместо ссылок на документацию или *текстовый*
tutorial даже.

    The “Big Brother Knows Best” Capitulation Is the Worst Part.
    [...]
    The problem is not, primarily, that services collect data. The
    problem is that users have been convinced to treat pervasive
    surveillance infrastructure as benign or beneficial, and to respond
    to any criticism of it as paranoia, technical elitism, or failure to
    appreciate convenience. The learned helplessness is the crisis. The
    data collection is the symptom.
    [...]
    Apple tells you that you can’t install software from outside the App
    Store because it’s dangerous, and people nod. These are the same
    people who would lose their minds if their city government told them
    they could only buy food from vendors the city had approved,
    licensed, and taxed at thirty percent of every transaction — who
    understand instinctively that such a system is about control and
    extraction rather than safety. They accept the identical arrangement
    from a private company without complaint because the phone is pretty
    and the UX is smooth and the alternative sounds hard.

    What We’re Actually Losing, Concretely.
    [...]
    We’re losing the ability to audit. A person who understands their
    tools can notice when those tools start behaving badly. They can run
    a packet capture with tcpdump or Wireshark and see what their phone
    is actually transmitting. They can look at what their DNS resolver
    is returning. They can read the permissions an app requests and
    reason about whether those permissions make sense for what the app
    claims to do. They can notice when an update changes behavior in
    ways that benefit the developer at the user’s expense. Most people
    have none of these capabilities and depend entirely on external
    review — journalists, academic security researchers, occasionally
    regulators — which is slow, incomplete, paid for by advertising
    revenue from the same companies being reviewed, and easily captured.
    The number of apps caught doing obviously bad things — exfiltrating
    contact lists, running location tracking in the background without
    any legitimate purpose, phoning home with behavioral data — and
    continuing to have millions of users afterward, because those users
    had no mechanism to detect the behavior themselves, is not small. It
    is not a footnote. It is the normal operating condition of the app
    economy. Technical literacy is a prerequisite for meaningful
    consent. Without it, accepting a privacy policy is not consent. It’s
    surrender to a document you can’t evaluate.
    [...]
    We’re losing resilience. Communities with high concentrations of
    technical competence can adapt when platforms change or die. They
    migrate. They self-host.
    [...]
    What you get instead is a generation of developers who’ve only ever
    worked within platform constraints, who’ve never pushed against the
    edges of the abstractions they’ve been given, who treat framework
    behavior as ground truth rather than implementation detail. They
    build more constrained platforms, because the constraints are all
    they know, for the next generation to be hemmed in by. The technical
    capability of the field decays, quietly, generation by generation,
    because the informal education pathway — break things, fix them,
    understand them — has been systematically closed by platforms that
    have every financial incentive to keep it closed.

И удручает не то что исчезают всякие эти умения, а то, что они не нужны
работодателям, за них никто не собирается платить. Разработчики
(нормальные) просто перестали быть нужными. Видимо, кроме кучки компаний
типа Microsoft/Google/Apple, которые и делают все эти экосистемы в
которых крутятся остальные предприятия.
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