alt Hacker NewsThe hell with with whatever speed boost I might get. I still write all my code by hand every day, and own what it does. I know it. And I don't have to worry about atrophy.
Could've outsourced a long time ago to humans, if I wanted to deal with reading code most of the time instead of writing it.
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Do you have management pressure to use these tools? I don’t have any data but me and virtually every software engineer I talk to regularly is feeling or has felt pressure to use these tools.
This mentality never worked in IT world. We've always had high pace of change and endless learning and adaptation to new tools and approaches.
Real quick, how does paging work?
yup. no effort - no bliss. and for rare bouts of wanting to shepherd cats I just got meself some actual cats. At least they don't pretend to be engineers.
If programmer speed and efficiency was truly such a significant competitive factor, we wouldn't be packing them like sardines them in noisy and stuffy open floor plan offices.