No, the flip side of this wish is your knowledge is frozen in time to when you make the wish and can never be updated. You gradually become more and more outdated as you fail to grasp even the simplest of changes to all languages in current usage.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

So I forever work on legacy systems.

Not ideal, but there's quite a bit of job security in it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

The upside to this is that you can still make good money as a legacy programmer. Just look at COBOL job listings.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

The ol' monkey's paw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Well damn, that's kind of evil.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

At that point your fame as a Rockstar Dev (I hate myself for typing that) will allow you to transition to a cushy ceo position.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Oh no, does this include all hypothetical alternate interpretations of the same code? So, you just look at the screen and go "yep, it definitely could mean something"?