Just useful enough to become incredibly dangerous to anyone who doesn’t know what they’re doing. Isn’t it great?
Now non-coders can finally wield the foot-gun once reserved only for coders! /s
Truth be told, computer engineering should really be something that one needs a licence to do commercially, just like regular engineering. In this modern era where software can be ruinous to someone’s life just like shoddy engineering, why is it not like this already.
Look, nothing will blow up if I mess up my proxy setup on my machine. I just won’t have internet until I revert my change. Why would that be different if I were getting paid for it?
Nothing happens if you fuck up your proxy, but if you develop an app that gets very popular and don’t care about safety, so hackers are able to take control over your whole Server they can do a lot of damage. If you develop software for critical infrastructure it can actually cost human lives if you fuck up your security systems.