The author argues that the CEO of CrowdStrike has failed upwards. I don't agree. CrowdStrike makes compliance software. CrowdStrike's main purpose isn't to provide protection against cyber attacks. Businesses don't care enough about that. Businesses do care about simplifying their compliance burden and limiting their liability when they get hacked. That's where CrowdStrike excels, and that's why CrowdStrike can charge so much for their services. It's not easy to build a 70 billion dollar business and CrowdStrike serves a real business need.
> I remember times when leaders had dignity and self-respect. They would go on stage and apologize
Etiquette rules change over time, but a constant throughout history is that people in power don't take responsibility voluntarily. The "good old days" where leaders had dignity and self-respect never existed.
> [...] delusional claim how software engineers should bear the responsibility for bugs and outages
The /opinion/ that people /should/ be held responsible can't be delusional. Apparently the author believes that software engineers should bear zero responsibility -- even when their software kills people -- because we don't get enough respect. I don't agree with that opinion but it's a bit rich to call other people delusional when making one unfounded claim after another.
The post as a whole is way too angry and too cynical for me.
> I remember times when leaders had dignity and self-respect. They would go on stage and apologize
Etiquette rules change over time, but a constant throughout history is that people in power don't take responsibility voluntarily. The "good old days" where leaders had dignity and self-respect never existed.
> [...] delusional claim how software engineers should bear the responsibility for bugs and outages
The /opinion/ that people /should/ be held responsible can't be delusional. Apparently the author believes that software engineers should bear zero responsibility -- even when their software kills people -- because we don't get enough respect. I don't agree with that opinion but it's a bit rich to call other people delusional when making one unfounded claim after another.
The post as a whole is way too angry and too cynical for me.