It's Stack Overflow Survey time! I've participated every year and this is no exception.
We've arrived at the AI section, which is exciting. Unfortunately, this question isn't so easy to parse. I technically did learn how to use an AI-enabled tool, but mostly I've avoided such things. The easy part of the question is that I'm learning for my own benefit and not for some class.
"No, I didn't spend time learning in the past year" is quite the option to include for developers. When the results come out, I'm looking forward to how many people failed to understand the question or are trolls.
When I look for software, there is only one thing that matters other than cost: does it have decent documentation? If so, I can probably live with missing features and subpar UI. Without documentation . . . it's not going to work for us.
Probably not fair, but it bugs me when software leads with chasing some trend. AI today. Blockchain a few years ago. It's ok to add these features, but the core should be something that will survive the latest hotness.
I'm disappointed (although not surprised) that the turn-offs list included "lack of ai" but not "ai"
It might just be me and my sleep-deprived brain, but this question seems to be asking too many things at once.
Grammar nit. The last option should be "I have neither considered nor transitioned into a new career or industry"
By the way, I answered that I considered changing because I was out of work in 2024 and I wanted to have a job again.
Technically I was a consultant, but not a very busy one.
Very disappointed, that in the socials list the fediverse/mastodon is not mentioned (and codidact, but I wouldn't've expected that tbh)
@luap42 Spoilers! ;-)
Uh. Eleventeen? √-1 Let's try listing:
- GitHub
- curl
- Google sheets
- R
- PostgreSQL
- Perl
- Gnuplot
- A dozen shell commands.
- Emacs
I'm not even a developer anymore.
A note here that the context is personal work, but the question still asks about my job.
<img src="https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/593/147/370/473/508/original/53f4eb34d7e2a5a7.png" alt="For your side projects or other personal work over the past year (focus on the project you spent the most time on if applicable): <p>Excluding general operating systems and web browsers, how many distinct software applications or platforms did you regularly use to do your job? Please enter a whole number below with no punctuation, or leave blank."/></p>I left both blank, by the way.
I'm confused about "Linux (non-WSL)" given a number of distributions on the list.
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is great, by the way. You still have to pick a distribution, however.
I'm bemused by "Markdown File" as an option here. I did a search to see if that was a new product or if the question was literally just putting stuff in a Markdown file.
I'm #1438.
I'm interested in seeing the results of this question. I put "read the blog and listen to the podcast" at the very bottom, which is a shame since those used to be the first things I would do before I was hired.
Wishful-thinking much?
So many AI questions.
For a well-reasoned post about why LLMs won't become more capable, see:
https://kittenbeloved.substack.com/p/ai-is-not-coming-for-your-job
Well, that's a wrap. Slightly disappointing, but to be expected, I suppose.
