Managers hoping genAI will cause the skill requirements (and paycheck demand) of developers to plummet:

Also managers when their workforce are filled with buffoons:

…but some nerds are more equal than others.

As an incurable optimist, I look forward to the day digitally licensed media goes under, and analog media makes its grand return

import numpy as np

temp = np.array([22, 21, 25, 23])
sd_temp = np.std(temp, ddof=1)
print(sd_temp)

Vs

temp <- c(22, 21, 25, 23)
sd(temp)

How in the world is R more clunky than python?

Edit: and I didn’t even mention how python likes to break unrelated software packages whenever I’m forced to use it.

I’ll never understand why my classmates prefer python to R.

Not to mention python has a tendency to influence things outside of its domain. I’ve configured my software repos to never update any packages containing python scripts or dependencies, because every time python updates, there’s a chance all those packages will stop working.

Safe code is a skill, not a feature.

7. Never plan on staying at a SE job for longer than a few years. Not in a market that volitile.

The secret to success in software engineering:

1. Lie and say that there is
2. Write or use a conversion algorithm
3. Boss won’t know the difference
4. Collect bonus at performance evaluation
5. Put “AI engineer” on resume

I’ve heard an ex microsoft employee said in a blog once that the windows team has no seniors. Anyone who has worked there for one or two years has left for better employers. Nobody knows how to refactor or maintain old codebases, so instead, they just write new things on top of the old things. The windows kernel has hardly changed since XP.

If choice is our metric here, why not C? That way, you have the choice to use your own implementation of OOP

Nah, coding is one of the few things I don’t find annoying, so long as the language or toolsets I’m using allow for freedom. What I find annoying is when some talking head says all code should be a certain way, and everybody believes them for some reason.

It would be extremely annoying to be forced to write all my code functionally.

But I find it even more annoying to be forced to write all my code object oriented. Looking at you, python and java.

I’ve wondered why programming languages don’t include accurate fractions as part of their standard utils. I don’t mind calling dc, but I wish I didn’t need to write a bash script to pipe the output of dc into my program.

you ever get the feeling that programming has gotten way too overbloated? that good old fashioned engineering has been buried under miles of industry standards, best practices, enterprise services, business methodologies, and managers trying to justify their paychecks?

feels like a giant bubble way too overdue for a needle.

I’m still curious what the reason is, even if its clown logic.

Why is writing code by hand out of the question?