AI is reshaping how we build software, and we’re just getting started. #Polcode #AI

Honestly, this job makes all of us accidental domain experts in the weirdest areas 😂 Keep them coming - what's the most unexpected thing you learned?

💡 What a selective estrogen receptor degrader actually is 💡 How the 5S method works in wine tasting 💡 Which polymer dominates industrial manufacturing 💡 How long is the list of offensive words in American English 😅

Your replies on LinkedIn were too good not to share. So here’s Part 3 — Community Edition 👇 (These are real things people said they learned from projects!)

What’s the strangest or most unexpected thing you learned from a project? Sure, we all have gems.

That’s what we love about this job. Every project is a different world, a new language, a new way of thinking.

🎲 And sometimes project meetings end with a board game because in some domains, that's part of understanding the culture.

🥑 The popularity of avocados? Not an accident, and yes, there’s a story behind it.

📈 Instagram influencers? Their conversion rates are shockingly high.

💳 Card transactions? Yep… some still fly over FTP.

⛏ In open-pit mines, a dead battery in a single device can trigger an alarm, and your system must catch it.

As promised, here’s Part 2 of the “strange things you learn from IT projects” thread 👇

And that’s only half of the strange things he has learned from real projects. Part 2 soon. 👀

🚴‍♂️ Cycling (and endurance training) runs on heart rate zones.

⚡ EV chargers talk using the OCPP protocol.

🏥 Medical imaging? It’s all DICOM, a world of its own.

🧪 There’s a format called SMILES that represents chemical molecules… as text strings.

👗 Fashion collections are created even a year before the season.

Here are some things he learned thanks to real-world projects, not textbooks:

Did you know that ticket gates in some sports venues still communicate… via FTP? 🙃 We didn’t either until our CTO ended up on a project that used it. IT teaches you things no tutorial ever will.

Here’s to the next 20 years, #Symfony! 🥂