I think it’s the case of “they’re required to do that by government” or sth like that. Otherwise they would not do it, furthermore they might just have “errors” regularly that takes more money from people

True, but we have to know AI is making it wayy worse. The same people who were barely getting by, are now using AI to write softwares that’ll be used for years to come. And other people that don’t have developer experience and aren’t good themselves don’t have any idea and really trust those developers because “they make things happen” like “magic”. Previously they’d take a lot more time to make something work, it’d be shitty, but it’d be obvious for any developers that come after them. Now detection is hard, and the volume has increased.

I know, I have the same problem after leaving Reddit. I used to get reviews, and users for my programs when I shared it there. In lemmy I rarely get views

And then you’re back to the social media, just on the other side

If you’re sharing graphical elements then I prefer pdfs when you know it’s final, and you want to make sure people see it how you intended, and you want it to be vector format. Similar thing if the information is some complex format/layout. People can zoom in instead of having their device messing it up.

But I agree on simple contents like documents, tables, and such

Honestly if you’re starting from scratch, I’d say learn rust. It’s not that hard if it’s your first language because you don’t have to unlearn stuffs from other languages. Plus the compilation errors will really teach you what you did wrong how to fix things. And using clippy, it’ll tell you how to do things better and remove redundancies.

C is easy to learn in terms of syntax, but it’s hard to write correct code as the program gets more complex. Python is easy to write but doesn’t teach you much. I find rust as easy to write as python, but c like speed.

I was in a meeting with a senior software engineer, who makes a shit ton more than me. While sharing my screen he saw flame graph I had for one program I was working on. They asked “what is that?”, I was taken back, and said it’s for looking at which functions are taking more time. Then I was asked “where did you find it?” I was shell shocked, didn’t know how to answer that. Similar things have happened before where I taught them certain things, and they go “great find”, like dude, I didn’t find it just now. That’s basic knowledge if you work with database.

I am not even a developer hire, I’m self learned, and because the company doesn’t have many developers they gave me some of the tasks and I’m doing it because it’s more fun than my job responsibilities, and when I don’t have enough tasks.

Yeah. I think sometimes it comes from using a lot of shitty softwares that only work with “happy path” so they like to repeat what works and won’t experiment (because that means repeated work).

I have a lot of “we have to do it this way”, me: “this is better”, them: “we always do this way”.

As well as, me:“hey it’s easier this way, I think clients will like this way, even if we do the original they have to switch eventually”, them: “no, they asked for this, we NEED to do this”, me: “can we ask?”, them: “…”, i talked to the clients and they were already thinking about the new one and had no problem, saved us weeks of work trying to back port an already existing solution

Yup I had a HR personally message me saying the person I recommended doesn’t have a certification needed for the job. They have that in a different state, getting it in the state the job is in is as simple as saying “hey I passed the same exams you guys take (it’s national), I’m registered and practicing in that other state, can I get approved here?” And they say “sure”. It’s small documentation and a bit of waiting period, but that’s shorter than the training period of the job itself. I said a bit about that but they’re like they don’t have it in this state. Which I’d understand if it’s just a way to say no without saying that person is not qualified for other reasons. Because most other openings I see in our industry gives the candidates 6months to get the certificate because it’s easy