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They got caught doing this over a decade ago as well.

Yep I remember the same complaint 10+ years ago. They are jr for a reason.

Yeah I’ve been playing around with rust but most at work know py. And to be fair on my it has fantastic libraries.

I thought python has kinda exploded lately…

Openstreetmaps is an awesome setup just saying ;)

Try opencobol. You may have more success.

Some cobols like rm COBOL require a literal custom Linux header in order to work with SQL. Others work with odbcs natively.

It might be my area. Most COBOL infa got replaced or is on life support. But I did happen to see the good stuff once in a while. There’s a reason it was not touched.

A small part of me thinks it might be the place to retire. Working on old code bases.

I used to work with COBOL. The language isn’t terrible, it’s the 40+ years of no context changes that suck. It even works with SQL… although the most common configuration is using a flat file.

When the worst case is to lose your job and never deal with the legacy code again.

There’s automation and you can do it manually if needed. For example I have a couple of emulators that pull every 24 hours from GitHub just in case nint tendo gets a little lawsuit heavy. I also have one offs from GitHub that pull down when I want.

You can also mirror a public repo from GitHub into a private repo so it does not gets indexed/ai trained.

Yeah it can be that easy. Pixelfed.social is the big one.

Or you can go with one of the others to share the load.

I personally spun my own instance up just to try it out a couple of days ago. It’s neart and very perforant.

On the plus side pixelfed seems to be popping off. And every time one of the big companies f up, we get a slow trickle of new users. Which is much more sustainable in the long run.

Anyone have the text for this one? It’s behind a paywall ironically.

If anyone wants to see it from the horses mouth:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=photomatt

That’s him.

As a dev, there’s still quite a bit ai can’t do and will most likely not be able to do.

AI is good at solving old problems but it’s not trained on anything new. Its good at boilerplate and templates, but not good at original material. If it gets tremendously better, and really does get to the point where it’s better than we are at development, then the industry will shift into prompt engineering. But I can see a huge reduction of jobs.

It’s not the same but laravel is a neat dev platform as well. Lots of community made libraries and relatively drama free.