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Welcome to the new era, where programming is neither a skill nor a trade, but a task to be automated away by anyone with a paid subscription.

• mikert89 7mo ago
  alot of software isnt that important so its fine, but some actually is important. especially with a branding name slapped on it that people will trust
  • whattheheckheck 7mo ago
    The industry needs to step up and plant a flag for professionalization certifications for proper software engineering. Real hard exams etc
    • jacamera 7mo ago
      I can't even imagine what these exams would look like. The entire profession seems to boil down to making the appropriate tradeoffs for your specific application in your specific domain using your specific tech stack. There's almost nothing that you always should or shouldn't do.
      • xenophonf 7mo ago
        All engineering professions are like that. NCEES has been licensing Professional Engineers for over a hundred years. The only thing stopping CS/SE is an unwillingness to submit to anything resembling oversight.
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  • leftyspook 7mo ago
    All software runs on somebody's hardware. Ultimately even an utterly benign program like `cowsay` could be backdoored to upload your ssh keys somewhere.
    • utrack 7mo ago
      https://xkcd.com/2347/ https://xkcd.com/2347/ , but with `fortune -a` and `cowsay` instead of imagemagick