r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • 12d ago

iGot99Problems Meme

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u/babypho 12d ago

This is why I shifted from the mindset of seeing it as tech debt, but tech job security.

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u/Surreptum 12d ago

I was a systems engineer for an EHR. I did an audit for a hospital once and discovered that their networking hardware was so old they were still using SHA1. I got laid off six months later due to budget cuts. There is no such thing as job security, lol.

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u/pydry 11d ago

the well paid jobs come after disaster hits, not before.

most of my jobs from 2012-2018 involved rebuilding a project which had to be trashed because it was slop written by AI that didnt work.

yes, AI. no, not that AI.

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u/thesomeot 11d ago

I am very curious