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i just made this right now, after trembling at my first professional correspondence with an old highschool friend.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 71 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Psst, don't tell anyone, but we're all dumbasses pretending we know shit

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If Stackoverflow and Google go down for a week at the same time, we are all out of a job. And the whole world burns.

[–] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone says ChatGPT can't tell if it's wrong. Well neither can I!

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the answer is wrong, but nobody realises it's wrong, is it still wrong?

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

You're hired! Welcome aboard here at the Boeing Company.

[–] Sheltac@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Speak for yourself.

I don’t even pretend.

[–] RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hay! I know things!!!

Like, uh, javascript sucks! Haha, amirite!?

(But no really I hate js so much)

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Bruh, at least it ain't Java

[–] DarkenLM@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Between JS and VB.NET, give me JS anytime, even if it's ES3.

But modern JS is way better than what it was a decade ago. It's a pretty solid language now.

[–] RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Given I have to work relatively often in legacy VB, I wholeheartedly agree. But I'd kill to be working in C# instead.

Strongly typed is life!

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

And we never stop pretending.