Now anyone can be a Larry Wall, and I'm not sure that's a good thing.

This is not exactly novel. In the 2000s, someone made a fully functioning Perl 6 runtime in a very short amount of time (a month, IIRC) using Haskell. The various Lisps/Schemes have always given you the ability to implement specialized languages even more quickly and ergonomically than Haskell (IMHO).

This latest fever for LLMs simply confirms that people would rather do _anything_ other than program in a (not necessarily purely) functional language that has meta-programming facilities. I personally blame functional fixedness (psychological concept). In my experience, when someone learns to program in a particular paradigm or language, they are rarely able or willing to migrate to a different one (I know many people who refused to code in anything that did not look and feel like Java, until forced to by their growling bellies). The AI/LLM companies are basically (and perhaps unintentionally) treating that mental inertia as a business opportunity (which, in one way or another, it was for many decades and still is -- and will probably continue to be well into a post-AGI future).

I was immediately bothered by the picture because of these facts.

Root account for billing and AWS Identity Center. Dev account for all the crap and lax permissions so people can try stuff. Production account with only production and extremely strict permissions where changes can only be made with terraform or a god mode account.

This is like the intro to the Squdbillies episode where Dan Halen makes the octowing chicken, but instead of that is ass lungs.

Welcome to the future, we have ass lungs now.

Hard agree. I've worked both kinds of places, I'm never working in an MS environment again for less than 7 figures.

And companies that use MS aren't paying 7 figures for anything below VP

One of us! One of us! One of us!

If that's your opinion I have to assume you only know PHP.

Some chuds trained an LLM and gave it a system prompt to also be a chud.

Just bad enough

I used to work at AFRL as an intern and a contractor, there were pictures of these platforms in a bunch of the buildings. I also played in a golf league in Newport NY. You could see the platform from a few of the holes.