Exactly. I think the key point from the article is: "When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning."

Dude, I'm from that country and I'm slightly offended. I also happen to know one of the co-founders of Avast and the way I see it is the whole company of boy scouts got corrupted by the insatiable greed of private equity. A concept that the land of the free blessed us with.

I get your point but private equity is a squarely European concept lol.

source? does not seem like it based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_private_equity_and_...

There are only a few experiences in life that give me a dopamine rush as intense as when I delete code. I used to think I was weird, but apparently I'm just a senior engineer.

Same, and I'm not a senior engineer. Plot twist!

Exactly. I get OP's point (i.e. you can accidentally include softdeleted records in your results), but for some types of data hard deletes are an absolute no-go anyways, so you just have to live with it.