Re:Vscode.dev: Local Development with Cloud Tools
by patmorgan23 on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:41AM
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Devs being opposed (or not embracing) automation is wild to me. Like that's literally your entire job, to write software that does stuff automatically, reducing the amount of tedious/manual task that have to be done.
I'm also of the belief that every on-boarding is a great opportunity to improve the process, update documentation, etc. You have this person that knows absolutely nothing about your processes/environment. They're going to ask lots of questions, those should be written down and placed in your KB so your not relying on tribal knowledge as much.
This is the hinge. You're in the world of people who see this as opposition technology, as something opposed to your control.
But what about everyone else? How many different chaotic absurd onboarding tech systems do various companies have? We never had a good onboarding at my last job, my current job has two or three various onboarding paths - mine is a fairly fully featured Ansible and it works great but most existing devs piss upon automating our 30+ services & make their newbies go do everything by hand, including asking for .env files over slack again and again and again.
I think there's a general intransience-ness, a stuckness, that many devs have. They see cloud and automation as an enemy of what they know. But they are just stuck, unwilling to grasp for power, unwilling to figure out how to scale themselves & their world wider. It's not that manual slow systems afford better control, it's just that there's a colossal bias against getting better & newness that most people - including devs, those who should fight for mightierness - should be grasping for.