21 august 2025
I got an interview for a position as a VoIP technician at a local company. Hopefully I'm able to land it, to be able to stay out of unemployment. Unemployment is very risky nowadays for me, as someone on a student visa. Oh well, I think I'll be fine. I hope I do well on the interview.
Should I tell them all the shenanigans I was up to with tilde.tel? The OTP system written in sticks and rubber bands, Flask/WSGI and Asterisk? It's unbelievable that I was able to do such things way back then. Nowadays, someone else could probably do it with AI in a split second. ._. Then again, they'd have to think of it first ;) so I still hold the edge on them that way.
I don't think AI will replace programmers as a whole. There's always going to have to be someone who has to come up with the idea itself. The logic, the general guidelines and the specifications. Plus, AI still makes GROSS mistakes, writing insecure and buggy code, or plagiarizing (which could get employees in some really hot water.) Who knows, though? We'll see, we'll see.
I've otherwise been doing alright, maybe a bit lonely but less so now that I let myself enjoy life and all it brings. My next goal after employment would be to go get my driver's license.