I'd assume shareholders value is still increasing, so it wouldn't be a problem for them.

You are right, this isn't real. It's an 'alternate reality corporation'.

Wait, how so? It seems very real.

It's all just one big state machine.

On my current project, any deploy that we want to do to an AWS environment, including dev, takes at least 10 minutes. So, as soon as you have to work on AWS functionality, you are transported to the past, similarly to the programmers of old. I'm not saying this is a bad thing actually, just to note that we still haven't managed to eliminate the "turn-around time".

Funny, me experience is quite opposite. Also in eastern europe, takes me 30 minutes on foot to get to the office. And the walk is quite enjoyable!

Oh, but what if you had a text based implementation of cyberpunk? Where your imagination is the GPU (the best one there is)

Alas, my imagination is also text-based (aphantasia).

You mean like A Mind Forever Voyaging?

Civil engineers actually have liability, they can go to prison. Software "engineers", not so much.

Hm, could we write a program to generate these templates?

Hm, I disagree. I have two desktops that I dualboot with windows 10 and various linux distros, currently ubuntu lts. If you install windows first then linux, it should work ok.

Hm, maybe a Boston dynamics robot could drop a USB in front of NORAD?

No need, just hijack their Uber Eats order. Apparently delivery people can walk right in and find soldiers napping on the job.