> The kid that learns, by the end of their education, to use the more advanced tools is going to economically out competed as an adult by the kid that got stuck learning how to do things the old fashioned way.

Source?

> What made model training different?

nuances

> I suspect

That's worthless.

> Spotify or Shopify

Both. The post is about Shopify, but some of the comments expanded the conversation to include Spotify as well.

> In a sane society, Shopify’s opinion on anything engineering related would be thrown into rubbish [...].

> This is unfortunately not an isolated case, Spotify for one has the same issue, [...]

fwiw the post mentioned Shopify and Spotify, hence why you see discussion of both

> it will be sure way of selecting yourself out of the work pool

i'm ok with that

It must be nice have no economic needs and have no dependents

It is

> I don't see how that's relevant?

nobody cares

Is that how you got into this state?

> they probably would have explained it by now

why?

skill issue

I posted the screenshot in a reply to the sibling. The skill issue seems to me to be on the part of the web development that led to dark mode themed like that.

> But it is IBM after all.

Then how did you not see that coming?

“I would expect something like this from IBM, but I never expected it from IBM!”