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This 1997 ad is basically a prophecy carved in stone. Some marketing genius accidentally predicted the entire DevOps revolution where we automated ourselves into existential dread. The irony is CHEF'S KISS – they were selling computers while simultaneously threatening IT departments with their own obsolescence. Fast forward to 2024 and we've got Kubernetes clusters that require a PhD to manage, CI/CD pipelines that break if you look at them wrong, and AI tools writing code that still needs three senior developers to review. The computers got easier to manage alright, and now we need entire teams of SREs, DevOps engineers, and cloud architects just to keep the "easy" stuff running. The guy in the photo looks way too relaxed for someone who just automated his entire department out of existence.

Ah, the classic tech industry paradox! A grocery store wants a sysadmin with Cisco certifications, Azure experience, VMware skills, on-call hours, AND the ability to lift 50 pounds... all for the princely sum of $23.80/hour ($49,504/year). That's like asking someone who can build a nuclear reactor to also flip the burgers at the cafeteria for minimum wage. The real cherry on top? "Occasional lifting" and "on-call weekends" - because nothing says "we value your 7+ years of specialized technical expertise" like making you haul servers around and fix the CEO's printer at 2am on a Sunday for less than what some entry-level developers make. This is the tech equivalent of "we're looking for a brain surgeon with 10 years experience who also does plumbing, for the competitive salary of whatever we found in the couch cushions."