We’ve all read this post multiple times. Isn’t it just the “young people are lazy” that’s been going around for thousands of years?
https://historyhustle.com/2500-years-of-people-complaining-about-the-younger-generation/
At most it’s a tangent on it…
I’m shocked and appalled! Isn’t the whole point of using Rust to prove you’re a better developer by using an extra hard language? At least that’s what I like about it.
I’m kidding, of course. Whoever has never copied and pasted code they didn’t understand from Stack Overflow can go ahead and complain about using a local LLVM.
Ultimately, what makes a good developer includes understanding and being really good with the tools they use, but the biggest impact comes from identifying problems and asking the right questions to solve them.
If you’re interested in learning more about SQL, throwing EXPLAIN at your query and the AI’s version may be really interesting.
I’m usually perfectly happy trusting my ORM, but even then it’s really helpful to dig a little deeper to figure things out, both in development and in production.
I’m inferring based on the deprecation of YEAR(4) and the conversion time window that obviously needs to be updated at some point.
To answer the part of your question I think is most fun, there is a standard for SQL. There are many dialects of SQL, but you’ll often hear of “ANSI SQL.” The latest version is SQL:2023.
Looking at the MySQL manual entry for the YEAR type, I think we can conclude two things:
The developers consider the possibility of deprecating and removing support for time data type features;
They use “reasonable defaults” for conversions of 2 digit years, based on the current year.
The good news is it sounds like this issue is being taken into account. I’m sure the conversion window will be adjusted in future version and the data type may be changed or deprecated altogether. I wouldn’t be surprised if they added a YEAR2 though. T-SQL has a datetime2, after all.
There’s a lot to talk about from this point alone, but I’ll be brief: having gone through university courses on processor design and cutting my teeth on fighting people for a single bit in memory, I’m probably a lot more comfortable with that minutia than most; having written my first few lines of C in 10 years to demo a basic memory safety bug just an hour ago, you’re way way ahead of me.
There are different ways to learn and gain experience and each path will train us in different skills. Then we build teams around that diversity.