[aizk]

My first exposure to professional programming was writing VBA and SQL (yes, together) at a massive manufacturing facility that had really old equipment. Now with AI it's much easier to replace the code but VBA still has a stranglehold on legacy systems.

[HPsquared]

I think with AI and the continued availability of VBA, people will create a lot of new monstrosities.

[aizk]

Kinda disagree. The code I had worked with was super unoptimized and difficult to run because there was just enormous amounts tribal knowledge that was just gone over the years as the company evolved. Also basically all the original devs had left. LLMs can help with that so much they know random minute details of lets say ADOdb and whatnot.