Tell me you weren’t around for the early days of compiler development without telling me you weren’t around for the early days of compiler development…
(Actually, for niche architectures LLVM is also pretty bug-riddled. Maybe with AI we can finally fix some of that.)
Exactly. I’ve done “real programming” for four decades; early in my career I was writing assembler and regularly having to review compilers’ output because it was shit.
I do not still do that. You adapt andove with the times, or you find a new career.
The ones complaining now are mainly the people who thought “cutting and pasting stuff from Stack Overflow without ever understanding it” was skilled labour.
Thank you, your vote for “failed state” has been counted.
Just so I can pitch the reply correctly - is it the bad parenting, or the failed state you were born into, that you’re looking for pity for here?
I’ve been around guns since I was maybe 7
The real WTF.
I’m in my 50s (weep), have visited* 60 countries, and lived in 4 of them - and have never driven a car, much less owned one, since the day I passed my test.
People don’t rent a hire car because they need to, they do it because it’s their programmed default.
.* visited == spent at least one night in, not including airports
They don’t even need to be pretty good. They just need to be better than the parade of absolute morons who couldn’t engineer their way out of a paper bag but think they are a Senior Developer because they managed to bluff their way through 3 years in an outspurcing company by cutting and pasting from Stack Overflow. They make up 90% of the software development workforce, and they are the ones that have been burning out the real Software Engineers since the day the first Bangalore development centre opened.
Thankfully, that bar has been crossed; AI is already at the level where you don’t have to explain to it what a semaphore is using stick figures and crayon - this is an absolute golden fucking era for senior engineers and architects.