The other angle is the majority of Devs are just… Not good…

A good Dev in the situation you mention will design the solution needed now not the one you hope for later.

I’m saying this as someone who has been mired in scope creep and over engineering solutions many times in my life because “what if 5000 people need to use it at once?!”

In most cases all you need is a database, a single thread and a simple API. Build it and then as the problems come grow with them. Try to take into account issues of scale but realize you can’t and shouldn’t solve every scenario because there are too many variables which may never exist.

Of course Perl is in there lol

My favourite for myself is garbage man. Shit rolls downhill so it always ends in my lap.

Another good one is fixer like the mob.

Spez truly got that little dick energy going on

In Canada and something similar. My aunt got breast cancer and my mum has since been diagnosed with leukemia. Of all the stresses they have dealt with, money has never been one of the things.

It’s absolutely cruel that we would do that to a human being in such a tough time. Why any nation would prioritize profit over someone’s well being is beyond me.

That said, Canada isn’t perfect either my son is diabetic and we still have a lot of profit inducing flaws. It’s just when you compare them with “the greatest country in the world”… Well nothing really compares.

Edit - changed pancreatic cancer to leukemia. No idea why my brain wasn’t working this morning. Point being fuck the BRCA2 mutation.

The code on SO is rarely specific to what the use case is IMHO. Any code I’ve gotten from there has had to be reworked to fit into what I’m doing. Plus I can’t post some stuff on SO because of legal reasons but can on an internal ChatGPT portal.

Trust me, it’s gonna get a lot worse.

Matter of fact, I look forward to the security breaches of developers posting company code into ChatGPT for help lol. We already had that issue with idiots posting company code into the public GitHub.

I can’t wait for my future coworkers who will be coding with AI without actually understanding the fundamentals of the language they’re coding in. It’s gonna get scary.

I would love AI to replace me and anything I can do to speed that up I would do it.

You’re not anonymous online either FYI.

To expand on this. If you are talking about anything online it is not private. That doesn’t matter if it’s in a WhatsApp chat, a telegram chat, a Lemmy post, a Facebook feed, etc. as soon as it hits a computer if someone wants to see it they will. There’s just hurdles to get it.

If you want anonymity stop using computers.

Didn’t own a lighter? Fucker never heard of or played “the lighter game”? The goal was always to leave with the most lighters at the end of the day.

Man I miss those days.

You never knew anyone who lit their cigarette with the one they were finishing? Shit is so common with bad addicts.

Calm down Quinten

Trust me. You do not want to watch Halo.

Amen.

Flip side with twitch I saw a girl get gifted 500$. It was awkward as all get out because there’s a feeling you need to perform and you could see her struggling with what to do. Money makes things unduly complex and I don’t like it lol

FWIW even if it was FOSS I’d still care. For me it’s more about intent. If your business model/livelihood relies on stealing from people there’s a problem. That’s as true on a business level as it is an individual one.

Doesn’t mean I have an answer as sometimes it’s extremely complex. The easy analogy is how we pirate TV shows and movies. Netflix originally proved this could be mitigated by providing the material cheaply and easily. People don’t want to steal (on average).