It can become pretty bad quickly, with just a small project with only 15-20 files. I’ve been using cursor IDE, building out flow charts & tests manually, and just seeing where it goes.

And while incredibly impressive how it’s creating all the steps, it then goes into chaos mode where it will start ignoring all the rules. It’ll start changing tests, start pulling in random libraries, not at all thinking holistically about how everything fits together.

Then you try to reel it in, and it continues to go rampant. And for me, that’s when I either take the wheel or roll back.

I highly recommend every programmer watch it in action.

I met a guy who would say “pan forward” and “pan it in an angle”.

You folks still say bot? I my company, we say AI.

God damn it now I cant unsee it

My pro open-source teacher in HS pushed for all of us to use the handful of Linux computers and recommended GIMP over Photoshop. He even said we can download GIMP at home for free.

Back then, searching for GIMP gave you bondage suits.

And because we were immature fuckwads, we played real hard into that joke, to a point where the principal had to send a letter to parents about how to actually find free open-source software with links.

I don’t know what half those things are but I laughed at the words “Breast Mints”. No idea what it means.

But I want AI to convert my mp3s to Oggs and vice versa 😭😭😭

Not some stupid “conversion library” or whatever that is

I know so many people in the iPhone treadmill. Like they buy a new phone because they have a iPhone 10 and now the 12 and the iPhone 15 Pro Max SSJ3 turbo Championship Edition They’re on 16 now?

I refuse to be part of that BS and I’m watching all the Steamdeck competitors release yearly iterations. Real sad.

Yeah but then you have to learn MATH and I’m not doing that.

You’re not the only one. I bought a Steam deck because why not. I didn’t have a use case.

But every month for a year, I continued to play more and more on Steam deck over PC.

It’s reaching a point where if i had to choose between upgrading my graphic card or buying the next iteration of a Steam Deck, I’m going for that next Steam Deck.

Me hooking up my PC to the TV. 🤮

Me using Steam Deck to play on my TV. 🤩

https://m.economictimes.com/magazines/panache/instant-karma-employer-who-replaced-his-tech-team-with-ai-asks-for-new-developers-on-linkedin-heres-what-happened-next/articleshow/116625826.cms

IT team is in charge of backups. They swore up and down that everything was fine and backups are working correctly.

For my department because I believe in Happiness, asked them to send me a backup. It was garbage data.

Then I learned how they verified the backups were working if the file size was bigger than 0kb.

I’m struggling to understand this story.

I get the idea. But the way it was written has a “I heard from a guy who did a thing that looked like this…”

Maybe it’s written that way to protect the privacy/trade secrets. But it also makes it hard to have any takeaways beyond why a dev team approved of pushing code like this to prod with minimal testing.

In 2000s, website builders were supposed to make websites so easy, a grandma could make a website. Look how that turned out.

Also right now, I could argue that as a engineer, i can use AI to create mockups and I don’t need a designer. But designers aren’t going anywhere.

Devs/designers using AI to support our workflow is going to be the norm.

Don’t put too much trust in so called “certificates” from these schools.

Absolutely this.

During an interview, an applicant bragged about how he was at the top of his class in computer science and could not stop mentioning his GPA. I turned off my video because I couldn’t stop laughing.

His portfolio was dogshit too.

We just hired a former musician who spent his 20s-30s in a band, and his 40s playing in dive bars.

He took a 2 year bootcamp and he’s currently one of my juniors in his 50s. He told me the salary at the junior level was 2x more than he ever made.

Maybe he’s lucky. But if you’re obsessed with programming, you’ll make it. It’s a tough industry right now. But in two years, who knows? Maybe they’ll be a hiring spree again.

I was doing vanilla JavaScript and using code sandbox, because I was doing it with my coworker.

But now I’m considering switching to Typescript.

Imho, ‘cheapest’ and ‘useful’ are rarely a great combo for a VPN.

Yeah I never understood why people have this mindset.

Like looking for security, but then buying the cheapest option?

I remind my team every year that even seniors struggle at times.

I’m now 15 years in and at least twice a month, I’m coding with 40 tabs open trying to piece together the best solution, often just throwing spaghetti at the wall.