What is wrong with software engineers that we keep making really stupid basic mistakes like this? Sometimes I think programming should require licensing and regular testing.
We direly need to split things into a licensed engineering field which is necessary for working on security- and reliability-critical systems, and a generic unlicensed software developer field where people can screw around with their 1000 dependency JS frontends to their hearts' content. The two should not be conflated and yet so easily are.
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This is partly why I'm not too worried about AI slopcode.
The human bar is not that high.
I would much rather have rigorous testing than a filter based on the origin of the code.
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I think it's safe to assume anything associated with PDFs is radioactive.
Those are not the "software engineers" but coders, those who like to say that the university degree doesn't add anything in programming.
University degrees are not the difference between an engineer and a developer, universities have churned out millions of people who don't care about programming and have no idea what they're doing, who are just following the script with as little effort as possible because they were told it was the easiest way to make a lot of money.
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a small wonder the wunderkinds of computer science were at all capable given their lack of computer science degrees
one and the same