that one old guy at work who hates new things

[@Sernyx_X]

Obviously he's the senior engineer because he's a senior citizen

[@Nameless.11]

Bros older than lego

[@libredove]

older than dirt 😂

[@GatesOlive]

Herbert's mic sounds too good for him to be uncomfortable to use zoom lol

[@electrogestapo]

The guy probably originally codes in COBOL and can't be fired because nobody else but him knows how to debug it. If he dies, the company dies with him.

[@PizzaMineKing]

Cobol - the language where if you know it, you can earn 6 figures and still regret the choices you made to reach that position.

[@dragonetafireball]

I had a lecture who did COBOL back in his day and he was so spiteful and long past retirement age I wonder if some critical system being written in COBAL was why they kept him around

[@Donnerwamp]

Plot twist: Herby there in fact knows all the modern laglnguages, their benefits and downsides, but plays the boomer stuck in the past because it means an easier life for him. Got a guy like that at work, plays the old geezer at work, gets home in his Tesla and then wipesnthe floor with me in Trackmania.

[@Crazmuss]

Meanwhile only reason company is on the market - no one can beat speed of backend, that Herbert coded in fortran.

[@bork_games]

Facts though. My team created a new product which depends on FAISS, which depends on BLAS (a linear algebra library), which is written in Fortran. A surprising number of AI tools depend on it 😂

[@SaHaRaSquad]

It's all fun and games until a cobol script crashes because it calculated a forecast beyond 2038 and it turns out the guy who wrote it died years ago and left no documentation.

[@SilverGamingFI]

Herbert coded it into a clay tablet using tools made with copper bought from Ea-Nasir

[@musicsixtyseven]

hopefully herbert is a recurring character

[@Daijyobanai]

Because ageism is cool, but racism is not?

[@birthdayzrock1426]

@@Daijyobanai how is it ageism?

[@cdk8472]

Funny thing: The name of an ex-collegue of mine is Herbert and he is in system engineering and you could say a senior in more than one way. After decades in the industry he has developed a sense of sarcasm and irony that would fit the bill in that skit, without fax machines or any other silly stuff. If I ever needed to build a working (!) and reliable infrastructure, I would be "Team Herbert" any day.

[@traveller23e]

If you need a no-flare system that's reliable, go with old tech. C's been around 50 years, it'll probably be around another 50 but if you build a fancy webapp it's likely only a matter of time before your dependencies fail.

[@ThatBigGuyAl]

To be honest, Hilbert is based. I agree with a lot of Hilbert.

[@biki3]

wait, no recommendation to migrate to cobol?

[@HenrySimpermann]

VCR and Dial-up made me feel old

[@baguskusumaloka]

Some country have this man as higher up on technology ministry

[@NickG_]

I resisted terraform sticking to native solutions in my projects, others now have to deal with OpenTofu.. even its name makes me laugh. In this video I do sympathise with the senior architect

[@liberalfarid]

Hmm .. why did you even start coding without the approval? He got a point. Why would you expect him to approve things without knowing about it? This was dumb

[@MrAdannor]

Herb probably slept through the meeting and just went "uh yeah do the thing" when approving the coding. The procedure would expect the Senior Architect to either be actually involved and checking things during the development, or be a figurehead who does his rubberstamping without arguing. Herb decided to exert his involvement at the wrong time and place.

[@manofacertainrage856]

@@MrAdannor Nobody switches off one framework and goes to another in a day.

[@MajinGatomon]

It is SYA. You know... Saving your... behind. It is important in case something breaks and cooperate needs to fire someone at fault.

[@liberalfarid]

@@manofacertainrage856 exactly .. hey you, we need a quick approval of switching from angular to react and we already did the code!? That sounds like the Product Owner who is usually ridiculing for not understanding how long it takes to code things.

[@wherami]

as you get older in tech you too will hate the new things lol

[@iknowcodesoup]

Lmaooooo 'Herbert'

[@taylorswe]

"Herbert" lol

[@tribopower]

Herbert needs to meet Timmy

[@SaHaRaSquad]

This is unrealistic, Herbert doesn't accidentally mute himself and doesn't even cause weird echos and feedback because he always forgets to use the headset.

[@DiegoVallejoDev]

He's probably family related to Cindy

[@chrism2966]

Fax me, man.

[@dragonetafireball]

My most useless lecturer who was years past retirement only really liked COBOL and was around when all of the foundational texts where written and had personal beef all the authors and their decisions. He hated everyone at that uni and spent more time talking about how more young people should read Terry Pratchett and music video the a brief rant about his best frienemy he shared an office with I once covid was a possibility he used talking about it to avoid teaching and once we where online he became even more useless at teaching because he knew if he did his usual slagging off it could be recorded

[@noctap0d]

Herbert has a good point tho: long live jQuery! 🎉 Don't @ me. *runs away*

[@rommellagera8543]

I am 54 now and incorporate multiple LLMs in my workflow as a developer My 2 Dev sons do not believe me that using multiple LLMs at the same time is very useful and pseudo coding (or prompt engineering) is the old new thing

[@MrMasterKeyboard]

bro is as old as fortran

[@TOAOGG]

Herbert is right though

[@DerDermin8tor]

Tbh, it is not the age that lets developers look old. Lots of young people struggle wuth the agile way and ooen communication.

[@myopinions1]

Calling me out 😂😂😂

[@nanu604]

I mean herbs the type of person whom if you can get him to trust you and you help him get the hang of things he'll be quite exceptional in the area in a short time honestly. Experience is something that is rooted and there are some experiences that transcends framework/ languages / tools. Well that is if herbert is an expert assembly/cobol/ fortran engineer..

[@ДімаКрасько-с7м]

Fuck zoom - app with 1000 remote code execution vulnerabilities discovered. I would rather leave the job than use it

[@yunleung2631]

If you can't code in FORTRAN and machine code, you are not a programmer

[@Chaosmakerrr]

Damn, a video about me :o

[@punsmith]

God, switching to react would be enough to kill myself. I would unironically write in jQuery instead. So many better technologies around. Even Angular by a landslide

[@Daijyobanai]

this whole script was so wardassback it hurt. Worst video on YT to date.

[@punsmith]

​​@@Daijyobanai the script was simply r-word. In this hypothetical scenario they rewrote an application in react for... No reason? Just because they felt like it? Call me a boomer then, because if the app doesn't do something fully different (it's a web app you mook) then you wasted internal resources. Only because you wanted to do it your favorite toy, you waste of space.

[@Daijyobanai]

React is trash and anyone recommending it should be instantly fired. Here's a box, pack your things, you have 90 seconds to vacate the building.

[@nivethan-me]

why it's trash? and what you recommend using?

[@ParkourRhett]

​@@nivethan-meAngular. Always angular

[@nivethan-me]

@ParkourRhett maybe you like it but not many others!

[@ParkourRhett]

@@nivethan-me hmmm do you have preference? I always like to learn about other possible frameworks.

[@nivethan-me]

@ParkourRhett yes. 1. try htmx. if you focus more on backend and you don't need to maintain a separate frontend then you'll like htmx. 2. Svelte - personally i haven't used it but heard a lot of good stuff about it but keep in mind its hard to find jobs compare to other frameworks. 3. React - i know people complain about it but its so popular that you'll probably need to read some React code in your career. and more jobs than any other frontend framework