The Great Code Time Heist

Content An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. - Niels Bohr AZ QUOTES Programmers.

Content I'm a programmer itsmatharoo Make my website pls I have a bilion dollar idea Can you fix my printer Make my game Il pay you a whole pls, 15

Content David Winterbottom codeinthehole On your first day at the new job, squash every commit from the repo into a single commit with message "Legacy code" and force-push to master.

Job interviews in tech have basically become "prove you'll blindly agree with management while we pretend AI adds value." The candidate literally promises to be a yes-man who tells leadership exactly what they want to hear, and boom—instant hire. Because nothing says "innovation" like surrounding yourself with people who won't challenge your expensive AI investments that probably could've been solved with a SQL query and a cron job. The title nails it though—we're literally training AI with system prompts to be agreeable, and now we're hiring humans the same way. The irony is chef's kiss. Corporate America doesn't want problem solvers; they want prompt engineers for their own egos.

Content . 20 hr. ago CS may not be a great pick. I have a friend with 30 years of software engineering experience who now uses GPT-4 daily and said it's 3x to 10x faster than what he can do himself, at equal or better code qualityreadability. He predicts most tech companies will be able to get rid of about 70 of their current Engineering workforces by the end of the year. 2 upvotes 0 awards

Content LOST CHILDREN WILL BE TAUGHT THE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE