Oh meu Deus! Just saw someone asking for docker tech support on a popular internet forum.
Their docker file doesn’t work.
The file was written by ChatGPT.
10 seconds examination showed why: it was trying to download resources that don’t exist.
I have never written a docker file (just getting into it myself), but the problem was still obvious.
The guy needs to do what I’m doing: buy a fucking book instead of trying to get a bullshit fountain to do the work for you.
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Sarah Brown
in reply to Sarah Brown • •This is the problem of the IT industry writ large: there are small numbers of people who understand the system and can work out problems, and then large numbers of people who are, for want of a better description, cargo cultists.
I’m not talking about googling specifics on Stack Overflow here, that’s fine as long as you still have the understanding and the results you get aren’t just treated as magic runes.
But too many people don’t want to go to the effort of just buying a goddam book and fucking reading it.
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Essjay 🏳️🌈 :flag_ace:
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Even worse, they don't want to sit down, think and analyse.
Start talking about Kepner-Tregoe and '5 Whys' and they'll just look at you blankly.
Too many people in IT are solely focused on a technology.
Too many programmers who think it's just a matter of learning syntax.
I even came across one self professed Perl 'programmer' who hadn't even discovered the concept of loops. Unbelievable.
Mel Jane
in reply to Essjay 🏳️🌈 :flag_ace: • • •This was one of the biggest problems I found my software engineering students had!
I even had to resort to Top Gun inspired memes while helping them to debug:
"That was some of the fanciest programming I've seen yet. Right up until your program crashed. You never ever break out of a non-conditional loop!"
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