IT has been dieing since IT began. Every new technology is the end of the world. Saw it with client/server replacing big iron in glass rooms, saw it with the interweb and thin clients, saw it with outsourcing, now hearing the same crap regarding omg "The Cloud".

There will always be a requirement for true Comp Sci people. Do you need that to succeed in IT? No, not at all. There are other skills that are just as valuable, creativity for one. Plain old common sense is another.

The shocking thing to me is the dumbing down of IT. Everything is fine when things are running well, but the second something goes wrong these people are at a complete loss. The bar is so low its almost comical.

When you ask a "developer" to troubleshoot a bug in a system *they wrote* and the answer you get is "I dont know, the computer just did it" something is terribly wrong. I should never have explain to a programmer that computers dont just do stuff, they are programmed to do stuff, you are the programmer, therefore the computer is doing *exactly* what you told it to do, right or wrong, on purpose or inadvertently. Anybody that thinks computers are magic should not be any where near the IT industry.

Can you tell you've hit a nerve? 🙂