The humankind should be gravely concerned about the declining intelligence of IT industry

I am warning you: we are on the brink of destruction of our civilization. It will not be due to external threats like retarded dictatorships, fanatic terrorists, space aliens, asteroids, or other BS. It will be due to two things: stupid software developers and complacent public.

Software developers are becoming dumber and dumber, by the day. We the public remain oblivious and forgiving of that.

Take for example carrier tracking web sites such as USPS.com or FedEx.com. When I as a consumer call their support and inquire of the reasons for the tracking number not showing on their web sites they tell me that it works on their end. Their support is not intelligent enough to understand that this does not help. Their IT is not intelligent enough to understand that they have to test their software before it is released to the general public.

Take for example MS Windows 10 and 11. They went out of their way to create a deep, multi-layer system of screens that used to be in one, simple to understand and easy to use tabbed UI. Whereas previously all of the OS settings used to be grouped together in one place, they now have multiple nested screens. This change requires coding and all associated costs. Humongous memory and CPU utilization by these 2x OSs has become notorious but no one cares. This cannot be justified by a reasonable person; therefore, MS is not reasonable.

Take for example MS Office 365 that added several layers of screens for such a simple task as saving a file. Yes, Nadella is the greediest individual in the world, and he wants all money to be his, by forcing everyone into MS cloud, but come on! We will still save files on our local drives, even if he makes it hard. So, why do it?

Take for example Amazon AWS, which never sends an account # to the business customer via email, once the account is opened. So, after the account is closed, but charges keep coming in, the customer is not able to communicate the problem with their customer service because they do not have an account # to reference. Amazon sends tons of advertising emails as soon as account setup is complete, but never a confirmation of the account #. Are they stupid? They very well might be because not everything should be attributed to malice.

Take for example the revamped Google, Amazon, and other search engines that suddenly decided to return results they want instead of the results that the user wants. Amazon is acting borderline criminal by providing products that do not have anything in common with the search term (ex: alkaline batteries when searching for rechargeable). Google, which used to be highly intelligent, suddenly became dumb and returns all sorts of irrelevant garbage.

Take for example Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence, which insulates report developers from the database, being in the cloud, and only exposes a bugged, slow, horrendously designed UI that is inconsistent, dumb, hard to use, and overall inconsiderate (no progress bars, no syntax highlighting, no timeout timers, and no auto-save, so every 15 min the developer is kicked out of the session w/o work being saved. Did I say it is poorly documented as well?

Take for example the global addiction of developers to Python and other interpreted languages: it looks like all "green" initiatives do not apply to IT, and it is perfectly fine to develop slow code that requires higher CPU utilization, as high as possible. Are developers too dumb to understand it? They could be dumb or simply inconsiderate.

And the above tiny handful of examples of blatantly obvious issues not being obvious to supposedly highly professional and filthy rich transnational corporations' IT departments is only a tip of the iceberg. I face terminal stupidity in IT daily, hourly, minutely.

If the supposedly best of us are so terrible, imagine the not-so-best! These things all occur over the last 3 years. Is COVID to blame for our civilization getting dumb and dumber? Could be.

Posted by: LinuxLies at 09:05 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
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