> Or do you mean that to you it all reads as yet another case of someone thinking their technology is what's going to right the ship that is society's current trajectory, then bailed when that didn't come to be?

Couldn’t have said it better myself

Desperation is just a manifestation of manic ignorance unfortunately

The only solution to ignorance is education and I’ll go back to my original point which is this precise thing was discussed over and over and in detail over the last half century of computing in multiple places

Most notably one of the most popular well distributed books that discusses this explicitly is Rodney Brooks’ mythical man month

So my original critique is that engineers do not even utilize the core literature for which there is global consensus on these problems