As I mentioned on that day, it is wise to see who your resources are when making comments. This FB individual is unknown to me personally, but look him up and decide for yourself if he knows what he's talking about.
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OK, I will answer here in a group since a lot of non tech friends have asked me. Lots of stuff broke today because a company called Crowdstrike released a bad piece of software that a lot of systems rely on. Here are some answers to common questions people have asked me.
Why wasn't the update tested better? Because tech people are expensive and Crowdstrike laid a bunch of them off over last 2 years to save money including testers. Testing is expensive and it's hard to convince a business leader that testing is important because it doesn't "make them money".
Why didn't big tech companies have a way to function without this one piece of software? Because tech people are expensive and big tech comapnies laid a bunch of them off over last 2 years to save money including the people who help make things stable and flexible. Flexibility is expensive and it's hard to convince a business leader that flexibility is important because it doesn't "make them money".
Why didn't airlines, governments, telecom companies, and other business have a backup plan? Because tech people are expensive and many companies laid a bunch of them off over last 2 years to save money including the people who research and implement backup plans. Backup plans are expensive and it's hard to convince a business leader that backup plans are important because they doesn't "make them money".
Wait a minute. How many of these critical systems in tech, transportation, government, and infrastructure are short staffed right now? Pretty much all of them. Good luck.
Wait a minute, all of these people who laid off all the tech workers said they were replaced by AI. What happened? AI was just a bullshit justification to lay off expensive tech people. AI hasn't really replaced many people in tech because making major changes like shifting to AI is expensive and it's hard to convince a business leader to spend money on making changes when they can just fake it because their compensation is affected more by how many tech people they can lay off than how well the companies actually function. Someday, AI might replace a lot of people in tech, but right now most of the jobs were not replaced by AI and were likely just closed or sent overseas.
Thanks Ian!
Good...Ian telling it as it is. Thankyou
ReplyDeleteI was glad to see some history of this stuff. Not fun!
DeletePeople will always be needed to fix things! I wonder if businesses have a way to go back where things happen live with actual people working and to cash only if all the computers went down. I see big problems happening at the stores with their check outs, at the gas stations and a whole lot more. Take care, have a great day!
ReplyDeleteI take some cash out of each of my checks, to have to use in local establishments usually. And some of them discount their totals because I'm paying cash.
Delete...tech security is a misnomer.
ReplyDeleteWow, no idea if to laugh or cry.
ReplyDeleteThe company I worked for before thought testers are too expensive, so developers tested each other.
Then they took me in, but it was no professional testing, just: write test plans and test.
The company I work for now takes it serious and weeeee, testing is quite a field!
We are in industry, automotive but mainly railway.
ATM I am translating again and I use AI. You need a human to proofread what AI does, sometimes I have to laugh so hard what AI gives me....
I agree. Big companies in general are always trying to save money. Small companies have been bought out by larger ones that are profit driven. They often undervalue their workers.
ReplyDeletein my area, both the division of motor vehicles and the Social Security offices were closed by this mess. You would think that government agencies would have a back up plan. We learned nothing from 911, except to be suspicious in airports. We didn’t learn much from Y2K either.
I’ve been in supermarkets that ground to a standstill because their computer systems stopped working. It’s really stupid.
Barbara, It is all about the bottom line! The problem is that every company wants to improve their bottom line every quarter...making money for stockholders and for themselves in the form of raises and bonuses. The top executives are under contracts so they are handsomely paid off if they need to be fired after a disaster like this one...so they have little to lose and they can blame their most recent disaster on poor performance or supervision by a lower level executive. Take Care, Big Daddy Dave
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