Seriously, all day today I have been in and out of Kubernetes nodes
using vi the whole time. While it is true that all of these nodes have
an NAS drive attached that I can be coding in from another TMUX window
and just change windows back over, it is immensely convenient that I
know vi and not emacs or VSCode or Neo(fucking)Vim. I was
softening on my position about vi after discovering the
containerization making your editor less important, but the truth is,
seriously, you cannot call yourself a “cloud-native” anything — let
alone “infrastructure” or “SRE” — without mastering vi and then
vim. Such people in such careers should be dismissed on the spot for
having a single fucking line of Lua in their .vimrc. People who want
to play around and develop apps are, of course, fine, but not the people
who do what I and most of the rest of the operations careers are doing
every fucking day. Sorry, not sorry. I’m actually pissed that I allowed
myself to soften on this point. This entire day has been absolute,
objective evidence that this job demands vi skills.