maybe this is what blindsides most developers into disregarding the threat of AI to their jobs. We work off some idealised version of what the industry actually is which we presume AI will fail at, instead of the reality.

I remain surprised at how long people can flog horses I figured would be dead decades earlier in enterprise. Too scared to fix fundamental issues and still running off the fumes of vendor lock-in with exasperated end users.

There was an article on here 15ish years ago to the effect of "everything's broken all the time. Everyone who writes software knows it, yet we all tolerate it."

I'd love to find that sometime. Maybe it's time to ask Gemini once again to look for me.

“…just think, Wally, everything that makes this thing go was supplied by the lowest bidder.”

- astronaut

Referencing the classic https://xkcd.com/2030

"I don't quite know how to put this, but our entire field is bad at what we do, and if you rely on us everyone will die"

"They say they've fixed it with something called <del>blockchain</del> AI"

"Bury it in the desert. Wear gloves"