[hcayless]

Yes, but: a programmer who has made it to age 25 without learning how to ssh into a server where their code will end up running is to me demonstrating that they are remarkably incurious about the larger ecosystem within which they’re working. One sign of a better developer is that their horizons are broader.

[scarface74]

Seeing that I write code everyday now that will end up running on Linux Firecracker MicroVMs that I will never have SSH access to…

The “ecosystem” of development is very large. I’m sure there are parts of the ecosystem that others would know that you wouldn’t.

[geraldwhen]

Or they’ve only worked at BigCo with defined production pipelines and connecting to individual EC2 instances isn’t possible without jumping through incredible month-long hoops, and not available for production at all.

I am not able to ssh into any production instance I’ve deployed. I know how I would but it’s just not organizationally allowed.