Heh. As an always angry software engineer, this resonates with me.
Computers are hard to work with, and the majority of us who work with them aren’t qualified in any meaningful way to do so. And yet, leaving that work to other, far less qualified people, would be dramatically worse for everyone concerned.
We should all “get gud”. Most of us are trying every day.
AI will continue to help a little, but about a thousand times less than we’ve been promised.
I hope many of you reading along here, who hear the call to software engineering, and join me in being perpetually not quite good enough at it.
I’m not a software engineer, I’m a sysadmin.
But I often wonder: Does good software actually exist?
I mean software where the devs were given a realistic scope and enough resources, understand the codebase, were allowed to do the best they could, didn’t have to push out premature code with lots of temporary workarounds left in, and the documentation is complete?Cause I sometimes feel that all software except for some tiny suckless tools is cobbled-together and in a constant state of disrepair.
Cause I sometimes feel that all software except for some tiny suckless tools is cobbled-together and in a constant state of disrepair.
Yep! It’s a fascinating mix of bad timelines, bad tools, and most of us not yet having mastered even our tiny corner of the craft.
But I’ve been assured that AI will solve all of that.
oh…god
This maybe in the tool camp, but Aegis is pretty good. Just works, no fuss.