Had a tech drive an hour and half to a site where the onsite staff couldn’t get a server to boot last week.
Somewhere between scheduling and actually driving down (half a day later), someone came to work that understood how the power button works, but didn’t bother to let anyone know that it was already booted back up and working.
I’m sure it’s a mixed bag, with plenty of small companies jumping in.
I own a very small company, but I also write a lot of our code, and we’re not touching anything “AI”. Not in our code, not in our products, not in any system we can keep it out of: We just migrated our last server from Azure a couple of weeks ago, we’re dumping MS Office this year, and starting the long slow migration from Windows desktop to Linux as an option for our customers (we’ve long been Linux on our servers, but have a lot of desktop software that needs to stay on the desktop).
But it’s everywhere. I had a call from our phone system vendor a couple of weeks ago. He kept trying to sell me their new AI call attendant, and couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t subject our customers to that BS. It’s been forced into our accounting software, billing software, cloud backup, everywhere you look it’s there now.
Xcode seems to get worse with each release.
The really basic things that it’s missing are frustrating too, like bookmarks. This has been a feature of every other IDE I’ve used since '98 when I started programing in VB6.
A few versions ago they removed the ability to tear a tab out of the IDE to have it open separately.
The local .NET user groups in my region have dried up over the last decade, but we used to have a few great ones, and yearly regional code camps. The community that I’ve dealt with has always been great.
We have a binary file that has to maintain compatibility with a 16 bit Power Basic app that hasn’t been recompiled since '99 or '00. We have storage for 8 character strings in two ints , and 12 character string in two ints and two shorts.