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> but software engineering (to say nothing of "programming") is a series of scar tissue in bits Lol. I will use this from now on: A software engineer is a comp

• eastbound 4y ago
  The more I work with The Cloud, the more I feel like software is alive: Things that used to work, don’t, a piece that works well becomes bloated with logs that needs to be saved and inspected regularly, surgery is sometimes needed to hot-replace log4j with 1.18.2, and anything you connect to the internet can be infected by diseases. Can’t wait for AI-specialized psychologists to intervene to understand how its infancy is related to their adulthood problems.
  • andirk 4y ago
    It is often very obvious to those who need to edit "legacy" code, which so often just means bad code; it didn't have to be that way ever.
  • wnolens 4y ago
    Along these lines, you can't attach a debugger anywhere and dissect it like some lifeless cadaver. You have to rely on having taught the system in advance to report what's going on and draw conclusions from a set of signals.