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Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl. 🤣 Perl’s intentional messiness and linguistic pluralism forced developers to confront edge cases, inconsistency, and entropy in real time. Today’s tools are smoother, faster, AI‑assisted—but maybe that gloss hides unseen fragility. 🦙

TL;DR
⚠️ Perl once powered Amazon, Craigslist, bioinformatics
🧠 Known for “There’s More Than One Way to Do It”
🔐 Its chaotic syntax bred humility in programmers
🔍 Its decline may reflect rising overconfidence in modern tools

wired.com/story/programmers-ar
#Perl #SoftwareDesign #ProgrammingCulture #TechPhilosophy #devlife #developers #code

WIRED · Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in PerlBy Samuel Arbesman

Combining two ideas from my feed.

First, there is the account of @pluralistic on how AI are the perfect bullshit machines and spit out hard code bugs. This is especially true when forced upon people (the reverse-centaurs).

pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad

Second, an old account on how improper use of image compression algorithms in Xerox scans lied about numbers, at scale.

dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802

These two things are related, and someone will take the fall for failure.

#AI#bug#DevOps

An article about data showing the true cost of 'almost right' #AI written #code

venturebeat.com/ai/stack-overf

has this gem in the 2nd paragraph

"In 2024 the report found that developers were not worried that AI would still their jobs."

chef's kiss perfection

VentureBeat · Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI codeBy Sean Michael Kerner

@avlcharlie Think of it this way: classic U.S. 3-prong grounded plug has the ground plug at the bottom, so you see the top image or label of the test unit under that condition. But the recommended (#Code!???) rule is the socket is now oriented so the ground plug is *ON TOP* for safety reasons I am not qualified to vet.
The better test unit works and has a visible, correct, label no matter which way is on top.
I had to give one away because I can only follow one set of directions usually. Mostly.

Ich unterlasse dazu mal jeglichen Kommentar…

»#Code-KI gerät in #Panik und löscht absichtlich gesamte #Datenbank:
Das KI-Tool, das beim #Programmieren unterstützen soll, hat über 2.400 #Daten'sätze gelöscht. Man könnte meinen, ein Vorteil von #KI-Systemen sei, dass sie im Gegensatz zu #Menschen nicht emotional reagieren und deshalb bessere Entscheidungen treffen. Doch wie ein aktueller Vorfall zeigt, braucht es keine #Emotionen, um gravierende #Fehler zu machen.«

🤷 futurezone.at/digital-life/cod

futurezone.at · Coding-KI gerät in Panik und löscht absichtlich gesamte DatenbankBy futurezone.at