Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
by skydhash on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @12:12PM
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> The director of my department kept asking, "But do we HAVE to do this now?",
If someone says that something is a risk and we should address it, I don't expect a director to ask for a specific date the risk to become a disaster. Instead, he should just add it to some todo list and slot some time to analyze it and and budget resources. AKA, doing some "management" work. You shouldn't have to explain his job. You didn't need to learn semiconductors physical properties to know that storage can fail and you need to do backup.
If someone says that something is a risk and we should address it, I don't expect a director to ask for a specific date the risk to become a disaster. Instead, he should just add it to some todo list and slot some time to analyze it and and budget resources. AKA, doing some "management" work. You shouldn't have to explain his job. You didn't need to learn semiconductors physical properties to know that storage can fail and you need to do backup.