It’s interesting to see how all these big techs are going from “hiring with best with attractive comp package” directly to “saving the most by replacing employees with something that sometimes does the right thing”.
I’ve noticed that the so-called industry is always fixated on the most crappy language. First it was JavaScript, then Python, now English. They have the common problem of being too flexible and ambiguous, causing bugs that are incredibly hard to find. Yet somehow they always become the most popular, and there’s always a cult about it, mostly consist of people who aren’t real computer scientists.
“This time is different” are the famous last words.
I feel that with non-standard syntax like $100 + 25% tip it become very confusing whether the answer would be 100.25 or 125. I’ll end up spending a lot of time trying to verify the answer.