I want to become a software entomologist, you know, so I can study all their bugs.
this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
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This is an issue I have as an ops guy. Things will ask about language experience and its like well I have done shell scripting and a bit of javascript and python but its ad hoc. Its small scripts or editing existing things. So its like yes im knowledgable about how to code and the syntax of some language but I have not written full time. So im like look im not a coder. I have not written code for >50% of my time at positions at any point. I can see why it would attriphy. Ironically reviewing code or making small changes is more in line with what I have done in the past.
Muhaha. Those morons were never software engineers in the first place. A software engineer would neither benefit from LLM any more than from a deterministic assistant (tenplates), nor would they be stupid enough to label a stochastic slop generator as "AI".
(Yes, this is a "no true scotsman" kind of argument, yet I stand by it. People who call this bullshit AI, as well as people who claim it is better than coding stuff yourself, should not be let anywhere near any kind of software more relevant than a mobile game, and probably not even those)