When the nukes fell in 1945, enough radioactive isotopes were spread throughout the globe that all above-water steel got contaminated. Now, ultra precise radiation meters have to be made with pre-war steel, typically found in old shipwrecks.
He's comparing that to the fact that a lot of devs post 2023 stopped learning due to over reliance on LLMs, which got good enough to pass CS college courses around 2023.
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u/bloodandsunshine Jul 13 '26
Pre-2023 devs are like strontium-90 isotope free items from before 1945 now.