I remember a 2019 "initiative" at a fairly large international insurance corporation:

"Everyone should code"

This led to a flood of projects trying to get pitched to software, and it also crashed headlong into COVID / furloughs.

That entire C-suite team have been churned, that's how good that idea was.

a torrent of slow claps for Mitt "Say it when it's too late to help" Romney... that's the hallmark of this guy's political contribution.

Some of the older heads here are 100% with you, the notes and comments in this thread should be clear enough indication of that.

But you're right, tools that make short work of ridiculous incantations, 100% good.

We don't sit around trying to re-write arithmetic, but apparently not knowing how to do git pull --rebase is a crime to these smart folks, who don't seem to realize they know very little about getting sh!t done.

United Gangsters of America it seems ... since the people have no say, just a moron with too much luck, too much power, not enough consequences.

They'll come? and the fact that's a question shows American Justice has been absent for quite some time.

use uv ... convince everyone to use uv, convince all docs in projects you use, to use uv.

Reject EVERYTHING ELSE for running / building py pip, poetry, conda ... etc.

If you self host and also write some of your own services, the same requirements are as they always were.

minimal ~ < $100 hardware (Dell, Acer etc mini or ssf pc)

install your linux distro, use your preferred containers, or just run as services on the os.

There's no ads, no ai, no layer of shite, it can't be "enshittified" unless you're doing the shittifying.

more than we already are?!

is the cynicism of saying we’re not cynical enough, not enough?

Well, you know, unless you're a better class of person, then every single thing you post is a backhanded personal attack on the reader.

Stop worrying about the use of words, none of this ridiculous exchange will change who does what.

I wasn't the one worried about it.

No one says it's Normal... they say it works.

Nothing is Normal when it comes down to it, reality is what you can get away with.

If that makes you uncomfortable, then buckle up because reality is what THEY can get away with.