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425 points sfarshid | 1 comments | 24 Aug 25 16:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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ssss11 ◴[25 Aug 25 10:37 UTC] No.45012386[source]▶
Foxpro, the horror
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ddingus ◴[25 Aug 25 11:29 UTC] No.45012691[source]▶
This whole discussion is blowing my mind!

When I hit your comment:

1. I thought, "YES! Indeed!"

2. Then, "For Sale: Baby Shoes."

3. The similar feel caused me to do a rethink on all this. We are moving REALLY fast!

Nice comment

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1. ddingus ◴[26 Aug 25 22:12 UTC] No.45032999{3}[source]▶
Sorry all. The short comment parent to mine tells a very suggestive story with high brevity. This is similar to Hemingway writing a story in a few words: "For Sale: Baby Shoes."

The hook aspect of these appears similarly suggestive and brief and I thought that intriguing and thought provoking given the overall subject matter.

And that just gave me some reference to the speed this whole tech branch has.