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Re:GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces by patrickserrano on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:32PM (#28145033)
> If they start off with things like that, there' so much magic under the hood, they won't understand how anything works.

I feel like there's an ever growing tension in software development where magic like this makes us more productive but also more vulnerable.

Maybe we need to develop better benchmarks for "knowing enough" so when the magic fails, we're not starting at zero trying to figure out what went wrong.

Re:GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces by vbezhenar on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @04:43PM (#28147488)
Hire wizard consultant to fix magic and let the rest to rely on magic.