[bigmutant]

Sure, I did the same, BS/MS with a focus on Compilers/Programming Languages. It's been personally gratifying to understand programming "end-to-end" and to solve some tricky problems, but 99% of folks aren't going to hit those problems. There are tons of people interacting with Cloud Services every day that aren't aware of the basic issues like:

- Consistency models (can I really count on data being there? What do I have to do to make sure that stale reads/write conflicts don't occur?)

- Transactions (this has really fallen off, especially in larger companies outside of BI/Analytics)

- Causality (how can I handle write conflicts at the App Layer? Are there Data Structures ie CDTs that can help in certain cases?)

Even basic things like "use system time/monotonic clocks to measure elapsed time instead of wall-clock time" aren't well known, I've personally corrected dozens of CRs for this. Yes this can be built in to libs, AI agents etc but it never seems to actually be, and I see the same issues repeated over-and-over. So something is missing at the education layer