Post AwLDs4gEtP9cdKzN4q by nyx@social.xenofem.me
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 (DIR) Post #AwLDY595S9RYHiwtt2 by meltedbrain_y2k@social.xenofem.me
       2025-07-20T16:07:57.674819Z
       
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       This rings extremely true in my experience:https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-remarkable-incompetence-at-the-heart-of-tech/I see some ppl here that do real interesting work in tech and I feel like I'm utterly behind because I didn't start reverse engineering games at 12 or something, people with deep systems programming and reverse engineering knowledge seems to be the only ones doing any kind of work in tech where you actually get the apply the fundamentals of software engineering and grow your skills, for me, developing in a consultancy made me feel my skills actively atrophy, spent far more time copypasting shit in and out of excel than coding, two lines of code every 3 months was common. Software would run with blatant bugs for years and no one would care, the correct values would be calculated manually and inserted into the database also manually. Software was a layer of bullshit that just added more bullshit work instead of automating anything. It's so fucking bleak. I feel like a few godly freelance engineers that fix the messes  the industry leaves behind when they turn to be critical are the only ones with fulfilling jobs. I should have become a cook or something.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwLDs4gEtP9cdKzN4q by nyx@social.xenofem.me
       2025-07-21T00:28:48.305655Z
       
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       @meltedbrain_y2k I have been saying for years that the tech industry is full of systemic incompetence at basically every level, at the *highest levels* of the biggest and most highly valued tech companies. it was about a decade ago when I first realized this from talking to someone from the Lainchan IRC in mumble who worked at a fortune 500 and the more time I've spent in tech, the more knowledgeable I've become about programming and sysadmin, the more the horrors have revealed themselves to me. it's absolutely shocking
       
 (DIR) Post #AwLFeHzIopS5lBSZwu by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2025-07-21T00:48:48.450882Z
       
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       @meltedbrain_y2k Reading the article it also links https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-accidentally-saved-half-a-million-dollars/And damn, I know exactly that kind of corporation, the kind where you can write/spot a bug when you enter the company, know it's a single-digit lines of diff, yet can't fix it for months to the point where you can leave the company with all your bugs untouched.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwLGTxeVfca3kWNDMm by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2025-07-21T00:58:06.395023Z
       
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       @meltedbrain_y2k Also, while fedi has a lot of people doing great stuff technically, I wouldn't be surprised if most of them are somewhat unemployed or have an unrelated job (after all "dayjob" is a common term).
       
 (DIR) Post #AwLUPbBAgLD0FYSrgW by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2025-07-21T03:34:12.588663Z
       
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       @xarvos @meltedbrain_y2k Yeah and it's pretty much why classical corporations are so broken, because you end up with a lot of people doing the minimum they're told to do. And sometimes get punished if they do more, as seen here by making the others look bad.And in some fields like tech it's specially bad because problems end up staying there.