DOS? That’s ancient technology! Who still uses that relic!? Lol.

I like some assembly

So, do you work with minimum spec hardware, or are you just a masochist?

I once saw an application, I think some sort of old computer emulator tool, on a smartphone, read a punch card using the camera. Which made me think, QR codes are a difficult for humans to read way to put code onto a physical sheet of paper and them pass it to a computer, just like punch cards were, when it comes to technology, there is nothing new under the sun, and on a cycle, everything old is eventually new again.

Tbf, if you’re good at that and getting paid decently for it, it probably wouldn’t suck that bad. There’s definitely people out there who enjoy fixing/rewriting broken code. Fixing broken stuff is a real thrill for some folks.

But it does suck that programmers good at other areas of programming, who prefer working on stuff that already works or coding new things from scratch, will end up being expected instead to fix chatbot slop.

And you only even try to set up #1 after #2 causes a catastrophic data loss, or costs you five times as much wasted time finding a file that’s causing problems.