Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

The case here is that software has always been chaotic and barely understood, whatever the clean-profession image suggests -- and that the AI panic, real as it is, distracts from the older truth that nobody in tech quite knows what they are doing. It runs on one sustained metaphor: commanding a ship with broken instruments, missing manuals and a confused crew, where projects move by improvisation rather than any competent plan. Set against that, the fear of AI taking the jobs starts to look almost quaint.

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