Post #1873187
2026-04-30 11:39 UTC
People complain about software nobody maintains anymore.
https://fedi.lwn.net/@lwn/116477056237142860
They freak about legacy software where nobody is left alive who understands it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8oc_UXgD2A
But they're happy to depend on something an LLM spit out that no human has EVER understood.
At least the unmaintained legacy stuff was thought through and tested.
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@landley@mstdn.jp 2026-04-30 12:10
Institutional memory is a thing. https://landley.net/history/mirror/institutional_memory.html Supply chains are a thing. https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things?triedRedirect=true Increasing efficiency often reduces resilience. 100% utilization of resources means you can never catch up if a demand spike or equipment failure produces a backlog. Can't train new people. (If you can always hire people who "hit the ground running" you clearly do nothing unique. Spherical frictionless business model ticking down patents to expiration.)