More afraid of having to write / test code on windows than anything.

Brb, updating my linkedin. I’m dead serious.

FWIW you can use C++ on Arduino.

C is a 100% valid language to spend your time on.

This is such an incorrect take for real. C is far from useless and still used all over the place in all kinda of professional projects. And I’m talking new projects started this year, not just legacy maintenance.

Yes exactly.

“Implement a first order lowpass filter in C”

LLM has no issue.

“Implement a string reversal function in Wren”

LLM proceeds to output an unholy mix of python and JavaScript.

Even though the second task is trivial compared to the first, LLMs have almost no training data on Wren (an obscure semi-dead language).

Hope are you finding work right now? Shits rough out here haha.

I’ve been an engineer for over a decade and am now having a hard time finding work because of this LLM situation so I can’t imagine how a fresh graduate must feel.

I agree, the terminology used gives it away.

Kinda hard to find jobs right now in the midst of all this but looking forward to the absolutely inevitable decade long cleanup.

This is an actual problem and causes headaches for a lot of beginner programmers. The only solution aside from finding well written guides, is to just look everything up as you go like you are reading a legal text or something. Eventually it gets better, but also doesn’t because programmers are terrible at naming things and making assumptions.