so what do you old farts that don't go into management actually _do_ to keep up with the arbitrary churn and escalating complexity in the software and hardware world? pandemic probably has something to do with it but at 46 i feel i'm hitting a wall
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my "retirement plan" has been to focus on better tools. focus more Haskell and Rust for instance but i keep getting drawn into embedded C land. i feel incremental changes are not going to cut it and i need to make some choices. cut some things out. not clear how.
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sorry for calling you an old fart
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i guess the problem is just scope. considering to move more deliberately to testing. that's where i've found most "tool freedom", and it's a domain that is seriously underestimated
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there's a lot of interesting stuff going on around formal verification right now
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you know my first response was: i wish i could actually use formal approach in my work. this fermented into: maybe i should just stay away from work where this is not possible
because if i zoom in to what exactly made last couple of years so difficult, it is all about unpredictable hardware issues. "side problems"
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and overall legacy things that are broken and can't be reasonably fixed
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