I really enjoyed this deep dive on how far video games have come. Also with ~900 views this video is likely to be buried too quickly for the HN crowd to see it otherwise.
yes! couldn't agree more with your long post.
Especially this part:
"(This is exacerbated when components of the automation require internal-only tooling—the poor data scientist now needs to go read through a bunch of half-written, out-of-date documentation about tools they simply don't care about to do a task that is not a core responsibility for them.)"
"Vertical integration" in my experience has just been turning a group of simple tools into a complex monolith that no one understands and is extremely difficult to debug
Sorry to pile on but, the google sign on also turned me away. I have a google account and usually use it to sign up for sites I'm interested in but when it's used to gate content that could be accessible without a login I just feel like my data is being harvested.
If you really want to keep the login then maybe a message like we won't spam email you unless asked and only want your to log in to protect against bots would help.