The Last Pull Request
With apologies to Tom Lewis
M’father often told me, when I was just a lad,
A coder’s life was very hard, the code was always bad,
But now I’ve joined a startup, with a sub to latest Claude,
And now I find a coder ain’t a coder any more!
Chorus:
Don’t think on the code, don’t think on the arch,
If you do a refactoring it might be your last,
Get your CV ready for another run-ashore,
A coder ain’t a coder, ain’t a coder any more!
The ‘Killick’ of our team, he says we’ve had it soft,
It wasn’t like this in his day, when he was writing lisp,
We like our bunks and sleeping-bags, what’s Hickey’s hammock for?
Thinking on design ideas or lying on the floor?
Two slices of pizza a day, that’s your bleeding lot!
But now we gets an extra two when they lay us off,
So, we’ll put on our civvy-clothes and find a hackathon,
A coder’s still a coder, just like he was before!