@dekkzz76 Yo, #BroGrammers are the ones who become #Managers above you and me, after only a few months in the IT industry. Insult? Hardly. Respect, more like.🤣

I consider #CS #undergraduate #education of fundamental import to the survival of #IT in the near future.

Current IT practitioners know our industry has lost its mooring, partly due to our fault and partly due to our paymasters. We no longer have enough deep thinkers, but too many cool-talking code pasters—the #BROgrammers.

Most of today's experienced practitioners are well entrenched in this self-sustaining, growing system. Indeed, they are the flag bearers of this "code first, ask questions never" generation. They will not alter course. So, if we are to make a substantive difference, we have to start before the next generation enters the corrupting influence of industry and is still in the nurturing bosom of academia.

A majority of high schoolers with a CS bent who are moving up to college suffer from the same "do, think not" syndrome, partly due to the imbecilic AP CS curriculum and partly due to their teachers not having CS background but only shallow IT coding experience. So, college professors must spend the first year, at least, undoing the damage high school has done to these kids. Moreover, the final year is spent lolling about or searching jobs. As such, two years is typically all these kids have to learn to think.

This situation may seem untenable, ab initio. But if we look at the long view, it is workable.

If good CS professors can reconfigure the minds of the undergraduates into the thinking mode and anneal their brains to become life-long-learning substrates, these kids can affect the future of IT for the better.

Uber’s culture is a bad fit for building a driverless car

"[T]he team is not moving fast enough due to a combination of risk aversion and lack of urgency."

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1280179

#Uber #driverlesscars #automation #automotive #driverless #cars #techbros #brogrammers #techculture #hubris #AnthonyLevandowski