Maybe AI will boost open source development more than commercial development since open source devs don’t have the privacy concerns.

I like php. I can get stuff done in it.

There are two types of programmers, those who write buggy code and those who never do anything.

That’s part of the nature of programming. Half-finished might be good enough. If you’ve made an awesome wheel but I need a kink in one of my spokes and yours doesn’t do that, making my own wheel might be cheaper than modding yours.

OTOH, there’s nothing more frustrating than looking for a particular wheel, finding ten really great ones that collectively have the features you need, but individually aren’t good enough.

Much of the job is dealing with the unknown. A surprise in scheduling can either shorten a task or lengthen it. It can’t be shortened past the time it takes to recognize it’s finished, but it can be lengthened indefinitely.

It also greatly improved readability of the language. Since switching to the standard of using 4-space tabs, I’ve not had any problems except when dredging up someone’s old Python 2 code.

And when it does matter, there’s never a perfect fit.

I work at a small organization where code reviews are good, but I’ve noticed that the larger the code review, the faster it needs to get done in order to avoid merge conflicts, which means large code reviews are much less effective in proportion to the size.

No, but I once wrote my one git bisect without realizing git bisect existed.

I used it to track down a commit that caused an old bug. The commit didn’t pop out on a cursory check, and I was getting lost in tracking the test results.