[eZpZpi]

Security is just box checking. Most IT work is. The deployed stack has limited set of parameters to learn and test for.

Leetcode is popular hiring criteria for a reason; that kind of code checks the “KISS/don’t be clever” and DRY rediscovering known algorithms boxes

Except in a few fields, most startups are pretty vanilla config ops and secops tasks.

Recent popularity among the working class has inflated the egos of run of the mill office workers. “Programmers are lazy” has long been waved around like a badge of honor.

Rather than Silicon Valley I’d like to see a Mad Men take on IT. Start in 06-ish with a bunch of entitled first world craft beer drunkards wasting nights on syntax art, framework wars, rise of cloud. End with Covid, launch LLM AI and a bunch of code school burnouts being laid off.

[Shocka1]

This actually sounds like a great idea for a show and one I'd watch with great interest.