Subj : Re: Hi all!
To   : DMXROB
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Mon Sep 01 2025 10:51 am

> Personally, I think its a disaster nowadays. Nobody knows how to debug
> anything.  They put out the most inefficient code that is so full of errors an
> bugs that it would make you wince.  Most folks don't even understand what the
> code even does just "ChatGPT told me to use this".

Where I worked, before ChatGPT it would be "the framework did it that way."
 We had quite a few non-mainframe "developers" who couldn't do anything if
it wasn't something the framework would do automatically for them.

> If you ask someone to help/assist with something outside their domain, they
> look at you like you are an alien.  They simply don't understand how to take
> skillset "A" and translate that into at least a beginning knowledge for "B".

Sometimes that is difficult, but many times an understand of general logic
will go a long way to getting you from A to B.  During COVID, we had a
developer pass away unexpectedly.  I am a COBOL programmer by trade.  I had
to pick up at least a basic knowledge of SAS coding (mainframe and PC)
pretty quickly.  There was actually a third language that a couple of
things were in that I had to figure out how to update -- can't remember
what it was now, though.

> As the workforce retires, I am very concerned about the future of anything
> dealing with technology.  Too many folks think because they play Fortnight or
> Minecraft they are "IT" experts.

Indeed.


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