It is, but it is a useful question. What you really want is not resources by being able to meet a threshold for:

- logic - critical thinking

After that, depending on your particular bent, you want some facility with languages ( some already dead ). In other words, it genuinely may not be for everyone.

For someone not wishing to be an expert or read source material, like the OC, facility in languages is absolutely not necessary. And history absolutely is valuable and can be accessible to everyone.

<< And history absolutely is valuable and can be accessible to everyone.

Shrug. Little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Giving someone tools to create black hole does not ensure that they will be able to utilize that knowledge in a manner that.. is useful.

In other words, it may not be absolutely necessary, but it is.. not helpful to suggest accessibility is key. If anything, accessibility makes it dumber; not completely unlike systemD in linux. It serves a purpose, but it dumbs things down.

Are you seriously suggesting that one can't learn Roman History without learning to read Latin? That it is better to be ignorant of history than read a few books?

I am suggesting exactly what I am suggesting and I opened with those suggestions in the very first post.

By that I mean:

- learn to think critically - learn to apply logic

After that, the world is your oyster, but if you actually want to learn.. and not just.. consume what someone else throws at you, then it will be worthwhile to, you know, learn a thing or two: like, for example, language of the primary sources. I know. I know. There I go gate keeping again.

I will try to narrow it down a little:

"Reading a few books gives you a sketch of an idea someone else had."

Does that help?

Yup. It is mildly funny how we were full steam ahead for building one too until, suddenly, investors realized it could wipe out their other investments..and then it kinda stopped. Instead, Gartner is listing universal orchestrator ( or whatever the official name was ) as a path forward.

Ngl.. I can see the merit and simultaneously recoil in horror as I am starting to understand what linux greybeards hate about windofication of linux ( and now proposed llm-ification of it :D).

To be fair, it is not just him. There is an entire caste of people across the organizations that see employees as a problem. It is absolutely fascinating to watch, because those people tend to be somewhere in management class and appear to derive a fair amount of happiness from said managing ( and we can argue whether those skills are any good ).

This goes beyond just employees.

His comparison devalues the basic value of a human life.

Without going into details, just recently I was able to get pretty decent business requirements from group manager, but it seems the only reason I was able to get somewhat decent idea of what they actually do, is because there was certain level of trust since we worked together previously so there was no need to bs one another. I openly stated what I thought is doable and he seemed to understand that I need to know actual use cases.

edit: Otoh, my boss is kinda giving up on automating another group's process, because he seems to be getting a lot of 'it depends' answers.

I will say, in a lot of cases, they aren't BS-ing/lying with intent. Just the general way their minds work seemingly isn't compatible with the very idea of laying out the process in its entirety (inc. the warts/hacks/workarounds).

So what ultimately winds up happening is, you'll roll out the process according to the official way, and then it is drip-drip-drip of changes as you find out the real-world version.

This. One would hope there human reviewers were somewhat limited and/or trained. Say what you want about banking, but some.. not a lot but..some standardization exists there.

In a sense, self-hosting it ( and I would argue for a personal rewrite ) is the only way to limit some of the damage.

This. Kids already have tons of those gadgets on. Previously, I only really had to worry about a cell phone so even if someone was visiting, it was a simple case of plop all electronics here, but now with glasses I am not even sure how to reasonably approach this short of not allowing it period. Eh, brave new world.

Amusingly, if Microsfot didn't have a such an awful reputation ( both recent and old ), their newly announced phones could have actually been a viable competitor.