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Irreplaceable Skills

AI Hardware Programming

2 months ago 124.2K views 0 shares

Irreplaceable Skills

Turns out ChatGPT can't actually put on a hard hat and operate a crane. Who knew? Construction workers watching tech bros panic about AI replacing jobs are just sipping coffee and waiting for someone to fix the actual physical world when it breaks. Sure, AI can write your for-loops, but try asking it to install plumbing that doesn't flood your server room. Some jobs require calluses that silicon can't grow.

University Theory Meets Industry Reality

Programming Algorithms Debugging

4 months ago 103.0K views 0 shares

University Theory Meets Industry Reality

That moment when your elegant university CS theories get absolutely demolished by industry reality. The top shows a pristine school bus (your theoretical knowledge) calmly sitting on tracks, while the bottom shows that same bus getting obliterated by the freight train of real-world development. Seven years into my career and I'm still waiting to implement that perfect red-black tree I spent weeks studying. Meanwhile, I'm knee-deep in legacy code written by someone who clearly thought variable naming was optional and comments were for the weak.