[jfoutz]

Eternal September. Everyone starts somewhere, it’s just all the time now. In ten years, the dev will explain to a junior how bad they messed up, and why they have to validate this way. Well, I don’t know, but that’s what I hope.

[ifdefdebug]

yeah now imagine another engineer go "my first bridge just fell apart the first time a real truck tried to cross over it lol" or "man my first plane crashed so hard"...

[jfoutz]

Ya know, the Roman tradition was, you gotta stand under the bridge while the army marches over it. If it collapses, you die too. Maybe there's something to having nudes of that dev.

Real engineering is expensive. And hard. moving atoms around is tough. I've never cut stone, but I've melted and cast copper and aluminum. That's real and dangerous work.

Computation is cheap and plentiful. And I kinda like having full control of "stuff". But maybe we do need licensing or personal liability. If I could wave a magic wand, and make that exist, I don't really know what rules I'd put in place.

How do you think people should get skilled up?

[fragmede]

That's an interesting idea. Bridge builders and flight sims are used in industry to test to see if a bridge design will fail or if a plane will crash. They're not limited to oversimplified and fun video games.

I wonder if there's a market for a "write a CRUD app and let it loose on the Internet and watch it get pwned" simulator/game.