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Computers are one of the few things out there that 100% DO NOT run on vibes

I've been told what vibe coding is and, girls, it's worse than I thought

I have a single interview booked next week which is the first interview I have had in...close to two years and I don't even expect to get anything out of it, I'm just doing it because it's SOMETHING and THESE FUCKERS can't even be bothered to do their actual fucking job

Shit I wish I could make 6 figures sitting on my ass doing nothing to contribute to society

I already do that!

@Lady Getting harder and harder to maintain my "Tech workers are working class too" stance...

@coriander well the thing is that no technology which is good makes money. so you have some people making technology which is bad, like advertising, which of course is an industry built on grifting. or you have people making technology which is good, and somehow having to convince universities or governments that it serves their bottom line to fund this thing which will never make anyone any money, which is a different kind of grift. (in the middle there is the group who works on good technology but sells it to venture capitalists, which is 100% a grift.) and this is all very normalized, because software development is not actually compatible with capitalism, to the extent that most tech workers do not even realize that this is going on and don’t understand that this isn’t how ordinary industries operate

@coriander and because everyone is already lying to each other constantly to maintain the shared illusion that software development is profitable in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, it’s very easy for some people to just add a few extra layers of lying into the mix

@BestGirlGrace Yeah, like, I'm having a moment right now because it's just a camel's back thing but I wanna be clear that, like, real actual coders don't count in any of what I'm sayin

@coriander Oh, trust me, I get it.

honestly, it's just the latest step in the distressingly common type of guy who goes online and posts shit like "copied all my code from somewhere else, don't know what's going on or why it works, lmao"

@BestGirlGrace At least with stackoverflow you know some real person somewhere wrote it

But also yeah if I found out my mechanic didn't know how an engine worked, I would be going to a new mechanic

@coriander pretty much

like at least you had the chance to try and learn something from another human trying their level best to teach you something. i've copied code, too, after understanding it and learning what's going on (or, rarely, going 'there's got to be something better than THAT')

@coriander even back in college, i identified that all but maybe half a dozen of my graduating class actually gave a shit about computing and everyone else just picked the major with the best salary that lets you work inside

@coriander my first job out of college, i got stuck with a coworker with my same degree and job title who frequently asked me questions without bothering to read the error message on his screen. shit drove me up a wall

@coriander @BestGirlGrace Yeah, still not sure i made the right choice... but I do really enjoy computers when I'm unemployed?

@coriander i hated that PM and she hated me, but i liked when she rolled a pure CS problem into my enclosure

@coriander I love to make a thing!

@unlofl @coriander Of course, it'd all come crashing down when my beautiful elegant algorithm fell into the hands of my incompetent coworkers, but it was nice when it lasted.

@BestGirlGrace @coriander I've already had management appreciate and suggest destroying my program!

Yeah, it can handle ~1M records in memory, thats only megabytes of stuff once we parse all the JSON. No, it will not handle billions of records, no we cannot just "write a query" to get this straight from the database, thats why I made a script... you know RDSes don't really do trees, right?!?