We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works

A post on unix.foo examines a troubling reality: a vanishing cohort of engineers understands how some of our most critical systems actually work. As that generation of specialists ages out or moves on, the post raises an uncomfortable question about technical debt and institutional knowledge. Who will maintain the systems when the people who built them—and the only people who truly understand them—are gone?

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