Dylan BeattieJan 2, 2023

Thought Leaders: "Programming will be obsolete within 5 years. All business software will be generated by AIs"

Actual Businesses: "actually we're mainly still on-premise, running on Windows Server 2003 and VBScript ASP, but our two-year plan to migrate everything into a cloud kicked off in 2015 and we're making steady progress."

Show threadMirrors And StuffJan 2, 2023

@dylanbeattie "no one will be coding in C in 2023."

I'd laugh but I'm also going to cry a bit.

Show threadPapa Porkey (He/Him)Jan 2, 2023
@mirrorsandstuff @dylanbeattie It's really funny that you mention this. I'm a student applying for internships and had one company call back asking if I knew Fortran. If it exists, it will never die.
Show threadsmidbotJan 2, 2023
@mirrorsandstuff @papaPorkey @dylanbeattie You can make an absolute killing dealing in languages on Big Bank life support like Q or Fortran
Show threadPapa Porkey (He/Him)Jan 2, 2023
@smidbot @mirrorsandstuff @dylanbeattie "We spent half of our yearly revenue on a shiny new IBM in 1959. I'll be god damned if we stop using it now."
Show threadTodd KnarrJan 3, 2023
@papaPorkey @smidbot @mirrorsandstuff @dylanbeattie It's probably running on modern hardware. The reason ancient code still runs is usually it's got so many decades of business logic baked in and so much documentation and tribal knowledge has been lost that replacing or reverse-engineering it has become impossible.
Show threadGorgeous na Shock!
@tknarr @papaPorkey @smidbot @mirrorsandstuff @dylanbeattie So much of my career has been coming up with ways to run very very old software on very very new hardware. 😩
Jan 3, 2023 at 10:46pmTusky