Shortages
In which Rat explains where the bottleneck is
Good time of day, humans!
Transcript:
Rat: — Oh, well. Humans have taught AI how to make websites.
Cousin: — Was there a shortage of website makers?
Rat: — No, not really. However, there was and will be a shortage of humans who can fix broken websites.
More work for these humans. This is not limited to websites — in many areas, making stuff isn’t the problem, repair and maintenance is the hard part.
So true. The chief of the city's plumber's apprenticeship program is taking 40+ year old apprentices. They're the only ones who are both interested and will stay. City road repair schedule is designed around keeping the existing work force employed at full wages for as much of the year as possible. Skilled people are scarce.
I really miss the days of plain websites, before AJAX.
Before all th "aesthetics" nonsense everywhere.
When Jakob Nielsen's Usability website still recommended that all hyperlinks must be underlined to help users avoid fraud. Also, in another color. (Is that guy still alive? He must be like 120 in octal)
The days before the utter evil that was the Java virtual machine, by Sun Corp. a company that didn't kill itself.
Ah, the days of perl scripts everywhere, and the super crappy early versions of php. The days when we were naïve and thought that ms access was an actual database.
The simple days before video, when floppy disks could only hold ten (10) hot pictures in low res.
Those days when you could easily access memory and poke around videogames and have lots of fun crashing DOS games on a dull window of windows '98, that would BSOD every five minutes because of a bad update on the drivers of the graphic card, but you could actually downgrade the drivers or use a cheaper card that didn't crash.
Normies should have never entered the internet. It was too dangerous. We knew it back then it was too dangerous, and still... never mind...