Precisely.

I'm surprised the comment with most sense isn't higher voted.

In a stressful and pressurised environment, most candidates don't do so well. I've seen some who just walked out in the middle!

I'm not testing how much stress they can handle or when they're being watched. Only the logic they use to divide the problem into small tasks using pseudo code, so their thought process.

Sometimes I show them code and tell me to walk through it, but even that, I'm looking at their body language and signs of stress, in which case, I put it aside.

It's strange, employers don't test management positions, HR personnel, accountants, or even electricians/plumbers/builders, we let them get on with the job and assess them in their probation period.

It's been a decade and a half. Just because a person knows how to compile a kernel doesn't mean they can't also be a Luddite at the same time.

Well that escalated quickly.

These points are all flawed, and if I thought you wrote them, or even understood them yourself, I'd bother writing a full rebuttal.

Not half as violent as allowing obsolete approaches and flawed architecture to remain out of some weird combination of concern for backwards compatibility and sentimentality.

Python 2 users were supported for more than a decade after 3 came out, and there was a LOT of migration tooling released. CIOs may not want to be forced to upgrade too often, but if they think upgrading once every 10 years is too much, then they need to quit and get into something more aligned with their expectations. Perhaps blacksmithing.

Man, I'd love to be that blissfully ignorant and naive.

You know, there just might be ways to structure our society so that businesses can be profitable without destroying the whole planet. But I guess that's commie talk.

Holy idiotic assumption from hell batman. And a huge side helping of whatabboutism garnished with the biggest lump of straw man I've ever seen.

That's a SHITLOAD of stupid in one reply. I'm honestly impressed.

Also, MBA don't violently protest, but they absolutely DO lobby government to send in the military to do their bidding. Which as far as violence goes is worse than a riot.

Broken politics, a destroyed environment, debased social fabric, and a degenerate business culture prove his point.

Yes, the planet will eventually recover from our damage. That doesn't help us if that process takes a million years. We need working biosystems now, not in a million years.

Also, you're a fucking retard.

Why the fuck can't we root out this sort of ignorance? It's dumbasses like you voting for dumbass policies that has landed us here. You should not be allowed to vote.

Actually "AI slop" was late 2025 and early 2026.

There's still some slop, but no where near as bad as a few months ago - that's the terrifying speed of how quickly AI is improving.
I'm sure by end of this year, beginning of next, it will be hard to come by.

It's terrifying how realistic photos and videos look, that it's become exponentially easier to create fake content to spread hate and division - it takes seconds to create, and hours or days to debunk and prove it's fake.

I think that's the reason watermarks especially in photos and videos is so crucial.

For context, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.8 were only released just over 3 months ago, and already far outdated in "intelligence" and various benchmarks compared to the newer 5.5 models.
Similarly GPT-5.5 was released just over 5 months ago, and already lagging far behind GPT-6 Astra and 6.1 Sol - in various tasks especially coding and physics.

It's not "speculative layoffs", it's real people and real lives transformed.

A consultancy I worked at has gone through laying off hundreds of developers and business analysts, including many senior developers. Due to AI, you only need a handful of developers now, just to review/test code and at the odd times, make up the shortfall in AI.

Some devs claim AI is rubbish, but in my experience those are the people who used GPT-4 or earlier models and made up their mind, or those that try to feed it endless lines of code forgetting it has a context window.

There's many designers and artists in similar position. Where a company required a content writer/editor and designer, much of it is now done by AI.
An example is a senior manager portraying how great the company is doing with a presentation with pretty amazing side pictures as though it was put together by a professional designer in the consultancy... but nope, it was all AI generated :(