The Last O'Reilly Just Dropped

The Last O'Reilly Just Dropped
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After 10 years of watching AI "disrupt" the industry, bootcamps promising six-figure salaries in 12 weeks, and every company claiming they need "rockstar ninjas," someone finally made the O'Reilly book we all need. "The End of Software Engineering" – subtitle: career pivot to plumbing.

Look, plumbers make bank, their pipes don't get deprecated every 3 months, and nobody's asking them to "do more with less" while simultaneously being "data-driven" and "agile." Plus, when a plumber fixes something, it stays fixed. No production incidents at 3 AM because a dependency seventeen layers deep decided to break.

The dead boar illustration is *chef's kiss* – perfectly captures the current state of the profession. At least plumbers get to see actual shit instead of dealing with legacy code from 2003 that nobody dares touch.

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