To be fair, it has always been like this. People actively became dependent on the Internet, on StackOverflow, fast Internet connection, cloud services, etc.
At a company I had setup scripts to build our packages, and the CI was running those scripts. Someone more junior (only a few years, not decades) found it strictly superior to remove my scripts and replace them with GitHub actions: people could now know even less about it (as in, no need to know how to copy-paste and adapt the recipe for a new package), but now it depended on GitHub. GitHub is down, nobody can build anything anymore. And it happened once every few weeks, so people would just go have a coffee during the outage.
You know what happened next? That person got promoted for their good work. That was before AI.
To be fair, it has always been like this. People actively became dependent on the Internet, on StackOverflow, fast Internet connection, cloud services, etc.
At a company I had setup scripts to build our packages, and the CI was running those scripts. Someone more junior (only a few years, not decades) found it strictly superior to remove my scripts and replace them with GitHub actions: people could now know even less about it (as in, no need to know how to copy-paste and adapt the recipe for a new package), but now it depended on GitHub. GitHub is down, nobody can build anything anymore. And it happened once every few weeks, so people would just go have a coffee during the outage.
You know what happened next? That person got promoted for their good work. That was before AI.