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Programmers are no longer needed! (lemmy.ml)

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[–] expr@programming.dev 21 points 3 days ago

Yup. It's insanity that this is not immediately obvious to every software engineer. I think we have some implicit tendency to assume we can make any tool work for us, no matter how bad.

Sometimes, the tool is simply bad and not worth using.