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VincentEvans ◴[24 Aug 25 16:36 UTC] No.45005596[source]▶

There will be a a new kind of job for software engineers, sort of like a cross between working with legacy code and toxic site cleanup.

Like back in the day being brought in to “just fix” a amalgam of FoxPro-, Excel-, and Access-based ERP that “mostly works” and only “occasionally corrupts all our data” that ambitious sales people put together over last 5 years.

But worse - because “ambitious sales people” will no longer be constrained by sandboxes of Excel or Access - they will ship multi-cloud edge-deployed kubernetes micro-services wired with Kafka, and it will be harder to find someone to talk to understand what they were trying to do at the time.

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dhorthy ◴[24 Aug 25 17:04 UTC] No.45005830[source]▶

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When Claude starts deploying Kafka clusters I’m outro

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1. zer00eyz ◴[25 Aug 25 05:55 UTC] No.45010652[source]▶

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I have seen a few dozen Kafka installs.

I have seen one Kafka instal that was really the best tool for the job.

More than a hand full of them could have been replaced by Redis, and in the worst cases could have been a table in Postgres.

If Claude thinks it fine, remember it's only a reflection of the dumb shit it finds in its training data.

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