Now that the hottest new programming language is English, true senior engineers…

July 3, 2025

Now that the hottest new programming language is English, true senior engineers must also be fluent in Austin, Derrida, Saussure, Deleuze, Foucault, Barthes, Lacan, Kristeva, Butler, Habermas, Benjamin, Lyotard, and Žižek.

Of course, the 1000x systems hackers also know Carnap, Quine, Putnam, Ayer, Tarski, Lewis (all of them), Kripke, Ryle, Frege, and Wittgenstein.

Saw this yesterday in a job posting: Ideally, you’ll have experience resolving merge conflicts in post-structuralism, rebasing on différance, and deploying signifiers to production. You'll fit in with our team if you can survive 10 minutes in a debate with our CTO about the rise and fall of logical positivism.

Dmitrii Kovanikov@ChShersh

As a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience, you should know:

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