Post by @darkuncle@infosec.exchange

2026-09-26 19:10 UTC

@AmenZwa@mathstodon.xyz @skewray@mathstodon.xyz I have thought about this a lot over the last 10 to 15 years; in defense of the new generation, the scope of technology in the world is so much broader than it was 25 or 30 years ago that I’m not sure it is still possible to be a generalist in the same way that those of us who started in the 80s or 90s had to be out of necessity

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@phasorburn@phasorburn.com 2026-09-26 19:20

@darkuncle@infosec.exchange @AmenZwa@mathstodon.xyz @skewray@mathstodon.xyz It's turtles all the way down.

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@AmenZwa@mathstodon.xyz 2026-09-26 19:32

@darkuncle@infosec.exchange @skewray@mathstodon.xyz We would not apply that forgiving logic to a neurosurgeon busting our skull open, never mind the fact that medicine predates IT by millennia and neurosurgery is far more specialised and far more difficult than coding. The typical age of board-certified neurosurgeons is early to mid 30s. A medical malpractice of a neurosurgeon may kill at most one person. If IT had become almost as deep as neurosurgery, and given the fact that IT failures have the potential to kill hundreds (avionics system failure), starve hundreds of thousands (power grid failure), or impoverish millions of investors (trading network failure), perhaps IT practitioners should be licensed and regulated—just like neurosurgeons.

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