Last week, Dan Blanchard, the maintainer of chardet—a Python library for detecting text encodings used by roughly 130 million projects a month— released a new…
Companies will then eat shit when trying to maintain code after firing the developer prompt engineer that wrote inspired it.
I think management rarely understand why they pay people, but with tech is becoming super clear they don’t understand that they pay us to maintain apps not code, and a huge party of that is understanding the app, which is why LOC is a bad metric, why riser4 was never merged into main & AI code isn’t visible long term.
Companies will then eat shit when trying to maintain code after firing the
developerprompt engineer thatwroteinspired it.I think management rarely understand why they pay people, but with tech is becoming super clear they don’t understand that they pay us to maintain apps not code, and a huge party of that is understanding the app, which is why LOC is a bad metric, why riser4 was never merged into main & AI code isn’t visible long term.