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All companies choose profits over <literally anything>
That's unfettered capitalism.
It's actually PHP's success and simplicity that creates the volume of code (and thus volume of bad code) that gives them that impression.
I wind up using PHP for tons of scripting or internal tools still. :)
Made me think of how many older people are out there who do not have a child or family member type "tech support" person who helps them out. There's millions of them out there. I think there's a large market for that.
Terrible company. Terrible practices. Pathetic.
Profit over all else, capitalism!
If there was a way to factor in costs due to downtime, poor usability, anything like that, might be able to push back and bake some of that in to begin with... but even that is a can they'd kick.
I try to find products I like and then buy a bunch of them (in case they stop making them, etc) and I wound up making a spreadsheet once after becoming frustrated with the inability to trust the same "model number" means the same thing there.
I had imagined I could trigger a dryer cycle while I was away, or just wanted to run a couple cycles before I had a chance to actually empty it. Sadly that requires physical coordination of remembering to set it beforehand and then only getting one spin with it.
The only beneficial thing I get is the notification that a cycle is done, or perhaps an error (haven't got one yet)
Applicants start using ML.
Now we have computers creating applications to be reviewed by computers for a job to get hired where you use ML to try to shortcut the amount of work actually done, while your health insurance claims are judged first by ML and your company's stock is traded by ML...
99.9% of the time.
It's amazing that even if I have 100% miss I'm almost always able to still solve it by the end. I don't know what it is with 5 letters and 6 chances.
There was a version I played that had 6 letters and it was terrible.
I've made my own homegrown ansible type tools and everything else under the sun. But grown organically and not requiring learning a different DSL.
I've worked in the industry so long everything recommends "senior" level to me, which I am eventually in each job I'm at, except I don't have a those two skills that everyone apparently requires, which makes it real weird finding anything.
You should be able to find a lot of SWE jobs with your languages. Those are pretty solid.