there's no female equivalent to "manchild" because women are never expected to grow up

Old devs have already automated everything and don't care about your bullshit "features" or "revenue"

Im living this dream. We hired a couple of younger guys but had to let them go because they were literally r-slurred. I can get by on about 3 hours work a day.

Yikes imagine not burning oldcels to generate power instead.

Men are like “the solution to climate change is to switch to green alternatives, like women’s unpaid manual labor.” https://t.co/vBLdKV0qOY

— Moira Donegan (@MoiraDonegan) September 19, 2024

!edgelords

It's true my worth comes from knowing the arcane incantations to revive a 30 yo database that no zoomer will touch

I somehow managed to land a job where they openbsd in prod, I think they discount how unusual knowing how to use openbsd is

I can somewhat attest. The drawback is that you have to deal with absurdly out of date programming practices- one example that drives me fxking crazy is that one of our Elder Graybeards who refused to ever learn git has a bunch of code like this

/* ---TICKET-NUMBER CODE CHANGE--- */
code code code
/* ---END TICKET-NUMBER CODE CHANGE--- */

He used to comment this shit ANYTIME there was a change to anything so legacy scripts are littered with this

However yes - because they are traditionally slow as molasses to do anything, you are expected to be as slow as them. Simply by using a modern IDE you can probably work 10x faster than them. I have witnessed that some of these older devs unironically code in notepad - and I mean Windows Notepad, NOT Notepad++.

And anyone young willing to take up this work has solid job security. Being the only guy under 65 puts you in a very advantageous position and very few zoomers have the balls to take your place - one look at the stuff you're working on makes them

Absolutely true, that describes my first full time programming job perfectly. I was the youngest engineer by decades and everyone was super impressed because I wasn't slow as shit.

I've never been able to properly gauge whether I'm slow or fast. Not really a programmer though. Just like code monkey because I'd rather automate my job than work it.

This is true but you can also just work in a business that uses lots of indians for the same effect

Where I live, most companies fire programmers once they hit 35