Papers please

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I took a step back from the internet, which is constantly buzzing. Especially now there is a lot of buzzing about the job market and how it is shifting. It felt like watching a rope pulling contest, of people trying to get ahead even faster in engineering, and lot of people stressed about the future of programming. And that is on top of the already buzzing internet, full of opinions or whatever.

Then there is one shady looking dude under a tree, reading a book or a newspaper. Just in their own reality, relaxing, looking around, not giving a flying f*ck about the world around them. I wish to be more like that, just doing their own thing they are good at.

Innovation

In software, it might be the start of a new era, a new dawn, a new way of working, as they say. That combines modern computing with the classic IT we used to know and run, increasingly focussed on higher security standards.

Development of Artifically Intelligence does make it easier to get output, and challenges the security of existing systems. Just saying “papers please” and seeing green checkmarks on the security audit feels even more insufficient that it did before.

When I see the recent developments in IT infrastructure currently, I cannot express the excitement at the same time, so much to do now. Perhaps more open-source software in public infrastructure, it would make sense to me, so that is also an avenue I am looking into. More development of semantic web technologies and IT automation inside regular infrastructure, that seems the most likely to happen now.

Finding that sweet spot

At the same time, organizations have their standard work that needs to be done. These changes, if they do happen, take a tremendous amount of time. It has been challenging to match that slower pace, but slowing down gives the plans time. Time for the processes around that work to adapt as new technologies are adopted. The honest answer is that it takes a tremendous amount of energy, and will probably still fail.