Me, a young, but old fart at heart, writing firmware in C and applications in C++ (just for Qt!) that see everything wrong with the programming world today VS the junior that keep asking why we don't do the thing in javascript so we can have it on mobile as well (we do, we just use a different framework 'cause react won't ever cut it for our needs. It just takes a bit of what is called "effort" to make things look the same on all platforms) and wants emails lists to plan going out for a drink instead of, you know, asking. We're all in the same small office. Same stuff about deploying, we need github (no we don't. private git server), we need aws, woah what is this npm attack you're talking about?

At times it seems he's learning, but then he leans back into GPT and it feels like a lost cause. Yo bro it's crazy, i just deleted 2k lines of code, as if it was normal, with me raising eyebrows asking how many modules were outright deleted and never needed to be there in the first place.

Problem is, GPT and company will happily throw a lot of puke at the project and trust me bro that's essential we plan every single possible feature first and foremost instead of just testing the basics and build on top of them, because we have literally two requirements, so it's taking two months to do something i could do in two weeks, not because i'm more experienced, but because we should be doing what i'm telling to do, and not discuss whatever bullcrap the artificial manager is suggesting, which i would love to have the power to outright ban from our network.

Me and the junior have more or less the same age, just very different life journeys that led to programming