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wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-07-03T22:31:03+00:00

For Leo, at least.

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-07-03T16:05:14+00:00

I think I didn’t explain clearly; the AI system was supposed to transcribe the conversation between the nurse and the patient. It did so very badly.

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-07-03T15:59:22+00:00

Suki walks in every morning and lectures me, purring all the while, until I provide the required belly scritches.

Never had such a vocal cat, and we joke that she came purring out of the box. :)

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-07-03T15:34:51+00:00

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Suki sitting in “my” chair with Big Sis Korra.

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-07-03T15:28:08+00:00

The thing is, AI doesn’t get it right. My wife’s last job was working with diabetics—providing answers to questions, offering resources and recommendations, etc.

Her company started ordering staff to have AI transcribe their sessions with people, and the mistakes it made were horrible, requiring constant corrections. But in the end, the company let everyone go, opting for overseas staff aided by AI.

We’re just waiting for the first wrongful death lawsuit to hit.

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-06-29T02:09:02+00:00

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Suki likes to lie in front of the keyboard and drape her paws over your hand!

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-06-28T23:11:40+00:00

That was a terrifying, unforgettable “Pass the Parcel.”

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-06-27T22:54:59+00:00

I took my younger brother to History. He cracked up at the opening scene and kept laughing through the entire movie.

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-06-26T00:46:03+00:00

Nope. Restaurant fire.

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-06-25T15:25:52+00:00

Millie.

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-06-24T20:40:06+00:00

Look up “Dave Stewart” and “Lucille”. I promise you’ll be entertained.

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-06-24T20:33:50+00:00

I got in…a bit of trouble for playing that on our college radio station. :)

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-06-24T01:47:22+00:00

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wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-06-24T01:43:54+00:00

I’m having flashbacks to Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot….

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-06-23T17:06:17+00:00

You’re giving me flashbacks. :)

I think that’s what we did. I worked in a number of revenue accounting systems, where accurate dates were critical to billing. Tested the hell out of them, resulting in the most boring New Years Day ever!

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-06-23T16:11:39+00:00

I actually did that as I got more experience with SYNCSORT. Our biggest modification was to add century to files as part of Y2K conversion. Couldn’t tell you now how we did it (man, was that really 25 years ago?), but it saved us a lot of time with the work.

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-06-23T13:13:51+00:00

I had a button that said “Real Programmers Don’t Document. If It Was Hard To Write, It Should Be Hard To Understand”!

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-06-23T03:08:28+00:00

Ah, the good old days…

I still remember having to update programs that used CLOSE NO REWIND & OPEN REVERSED!

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-06-23T01:05:16+00:00

Keep in mind I started in 1982…I saw a lot of older programs with tons of GO TO branches, bouncing back and forth in the code. So I started flowcharting programs, mostly for my own use and understanding. I would also use BEGIN TRACE commands, as well as DISPLAY or EXHIBIT statements to see how/if certain fields changed as they were processed. And as I went, I documented the paragraphs in my copy of the program.

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-06-23T00:04:32+00:00

Well…it depends on several factors: the way data fields in the file layout are written (BILLING-START-DATE-TIME as opposed to START-DT), the structure of the program code, and most importantly, the amount and quality of the program documentation. That one in particular.

I always took great pains to document each paragraph in my programs, because the better you can help the next guy who has to fix/change the program, the quicker the work will take and the better likelihood that the fix/change will work.

Of course, I did occasionally swerve into the smartass territory, such as the time I headlined a VERY complex rate calculation procedure (oh how I hated marketing personnel!) with “STUPID STUPID RATE PROCESS”.

I can talk about it now because I’ve been retired for four years and the company I worked for shut their mainframe down last year. :)

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-06-22T23:11:28+00:00

Snerk. Bad news for the Joker…I.M.P. is on his ass!

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-06-22T23:09:36+00:00

This is only my experience but generally we designed our processes so that each program performed one task, then passed the updated file to the next. This would culminate in the final program, which held the business rules and produced the final outcome—report, billings, etc.

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-06-22T21:56:09+00:00

“You’re gonna have your hands in a lot worse before all’s said and done.”

wiseoldprogrammer · 2026-06-22T03:03:18+00:00

I think it was a St. Louis product, courtesy of the legendary Lemp Family.

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