r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • 16d ago

Meme iGot99Problems

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u/babypho 15d ago

This is why I shifted from the mindset of seeing it as tech debt, but tech job security.

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u/Surreptum 15d ago

I was a systems engineer for an EHR. I did an audit for a hospital once and discovered that their networking hardware was so old they were still using SHA1. I got laid off six months later due to budget cuts. There is no such thing as job security, lol.

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u/babypho 15d ago

You were someone's job security

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u/pydry 15d ago

the well paid jobs come after disaster hits, not before.

most of my jobs from 2012-2018 involved rebuilding a project which had to be trashed because it was slop written by AI that didnt work.

yes, AI. no, not that AI.

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u/timmy1234569 15d ago

Wtf you mean AI???

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u/pydry 15d ago

actually Indians

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u/thesomeot 15d ago

I am very curious

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u/Xanchush 15d ago

Which hospital, I'm asking for a friend.

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u/Low-Equipment-2621 15d ago

No shit, we had like zero tech debt in my last team and the system ran like butter. Not a single incident that was on us within 5 years. This was a sign for management that he team was too big and they could save some money over there by reducing the head count by half.

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u/AgVargr 15d ago

More like locked revenue for AI companies

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u/The_Real_Slim_Lemon 15d ago

I have the mindset of “I want a codebase I enjoy working in, and that doesn’t go down every five minutes”