FYI, the title is shamelessly clickbaity. The actual blog goes into more detail about their survey and some of the alleged pros and cons of using AI coding tools.

You’re getting job interviews?

Last time I had to track time it was on a shitty spreadsheet that had to be printed out and signed by my boss. I was salaried. There were usually no changes from week to week.

They also had a digital time tracking solution that they just refused to use because that would involve change and change is bad.

Return to office mandate and a slice of cold pizza.

In my previous team, we had a structure with four levels of nesting

Those are rookie numbers.

The query speed isn’t quite there but I would say it’s close enough for a lot of purposes, especially with proper indexing. And JSON column fields are indexable. Two things I’ve used Postgres’ JSON functionality for are:

1.) Storing unstructured data. 2.) Storing structured data that would exceed the table column limit.

In both cases, I’ve typically needed to extract the relevant data from the JSON records to either be stored in another table of turned into a materialized view so live query performance on the JSON columns was not that important.

Every time I’m assigned to a project that uses a document database

“So how are you guys handling all your related data?”

Finds collection of massive JSON documents containing all the related data

“Oh boy.”

Letting Elmo & Co. anywhere near anyone’s critical infrastructure would be one of the stupidest ideas ever.

Waiting for DJT to start shilling it in 5…4…3…

I saw this documentary about a device that can concentrate solar energy, called a “Solex Agitator.” The project went sideways when this guy, who looked an awful lot like Christopher Lee, stole the prototype and tried to sell it to the highest bidder.

The British government somehow got involved and sent a spy to…

Wait… maybe that wasn’t a documentary.

Only if it’s not an Amazon branded pole.

Fair point. Of course that’s already a problem with Excel. It would probably have to be disabled by default just like VBA macros.

There are things that could be done to improve Excel. For instance, fully integrate python and allow it to be used to create custom functions. Then, maybe one day, VBA can ride off into the sunset where it belongs.

Adding Copilot to Excel is not an improvement because Copilot and all other LLM based platforms frequently barfs out totally incorrect information about how to do something in Excel.

“You do that using <X> formula.”

No, I can’t, you worthless pile of shit because THAT FORMULA DOESNT EXIST.