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I just quit my job. We have a dotnet application running that I didn't write, but I'm the only one who knows a little dotnet, so I took care of it. My handover will be this, or "learn dotnet".
It's okay you don't need to know the language anymore, ai go brrrrr
I just watched the episode of The Office where Michael drives his car into the lake because the GPS told him to turn right. LLMs will brrr you right into the lake and it will be your fault for trusting it
I just watched the episode of Seinfeld where George has the puffy jacket
It's Gortex.
As long as insurance covers it, do we really need to care? If there's a big problem, insurers' lobby groups will get the law changed
Learning .NET is easy, the hard part is understanding the business. You can buy books or training for whatever language, but once the people who thought up the logic of the system leave, all you can do is archeology.
The business:
Sure, but you need to do something for that money. You’ll probably have docs for what, but you’ll often need to dig through the code for the how.
That's my career, right there.
I don’t know what it feels like to unearth ancient Roman artifacts, but finding out that weird process nobody understands is actually just dead code is a lot of fun! It’s not a bad career route.
Should've snapped back and handed them the defintion of a .net TLD