Re: Who Needs Programmers When You Need Hardware Designers?
I imagine that this is where the next tech 'crunch' will come from, ignoring the benefits in the particular mentioned use case in the article, there is the wider massive effort to get people locked into various cloud vendors, Microsoft being particularly active here and being very hostile to IT professionals that may be seen to be resisting their efforts. Coming back to the FPGA aspect, if there is less people that can program them, then it gives the vendor more power. Not to mention ability to add 'code' at a very low level for whatever other interests they have that would be very hard to detect higher up the stack. So cool technology on one hand, but massive enabler of the American dream - that is locking out competition and locking in profits!
In my opinion we need a new 'disruptive' 'Microsoft' to shake up the old incumbents which now are Microsoft, Apple, Google and Amazon? instead of IBM.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
