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Re:Tech Needs Humanists More on Friday September 25, 2026 @06:44AM (#49842677)
It's not the lack of humanities that got us here, it's the search to increase capital

Things only will get worst to a point where they will be unusable, the "new" and cool thing will get corrupted in faster and faster circles, slop will take over everything and eventually kill "tech"

Re:Working with Git Worktrees in Magit on Friday September 11, 2026 @04:45AM (#49655310)
Sorry git worktrees are a waste of time Just keep multiple copies of the repo
Yes, any other type of psychopath or sociopath would work
Re:AI is removing the middle class of software engineering on Thursday August 13, 2026 @12:49AM (#49281899)
I'm sure everyone reading this article thinks of themselves as a good engineer.
PR and citizenship are different things, one is just to reduce the paperwork and allow some bare minimum benefits and the other is citizenship

The only reason to push language requirements for PR, is to make it harder to obtain it, its politically driven

Re:Where every major LLM stands politically on Friday June 26, 2026 @01:00AM (#48682504)
Yeah this is flawed at best, it more "meme" idea of politics
Re:The Disappearance of Japan's Animators on Friday June 26, 2026 @12:27AM (#48682306)
Teachers, nurses, game developers ...

Companies get away with paying less because they can exploit the "passion" or intrinsic rewards that the jobs give

Re:The 2-Year Apartment Rule on Thursday June 18, 2026 @04:19AM (#48582398)
That apply for jobs too
Sauron doing sauron things
Re:Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @12:44AM (#48289747)
They had some great miss opportunities with Paper and easy storage, but it seems they stopped on the MVP stage
When you get a Open Borders agreement in CIV
Re:Local AI needs to be the norm on Sunday May 10, 2026 @06:17PM (#48088711)
Local LLMs is the only thing viable and probably the only thing it will remain once the hype dies down.

A smaller cheaper local model can delivery most the value for coding, while we still use some services for code review and security compliance.

Once the VC money runs out and they start to charge the real price, the C-level will have to impose budges or limits. The current pissing contest over who can expend the most tokens is both ridiculous and shortsighted

Get ready for the not reading, between people asking for AI and the slop everyone is writing Today communication will only get worst.

Talking to a 'yes and autocomplete' that will agree with everything you say and praise it as a "Great idea!" will make everything terrible

How about replaceable batteries?
Next victims of "AI productivity gains"
Re:We Are Changing Our Developer Productivity Experiment Design on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @11:17PM (#47147300)
What worried me is that LLMs are becoming a crutches for overworked engineers. But instead of reducing the workload it has also increased the expectation and consequently more aggressive deadlines, making it all worst overall
Re:Game Theory Patterns at Work (2016) on Monday February 09, 2026 @09:47PM (#46954724)
Correct the url has 2026, probably a typo
Re:Conbini Wars – map of Japanese convenience store ratios on Monday January 12, 2026 @05:45AM (#46586675)
Seizon Senryaku!
Re:Conbini Wars – map of Japanese convenience store ratios on Monday January 12, 2026 @05:41AM (#46586635)
Sorry but this seems like vibe coded slop

You cant search or change language

Idk what is the goal here, but maybe some analysis with graph would be better, like who has the most territory or something like that? You also might need to disclosure how you got this data

Re:Patterns.dev on Thursday December 11, 2025 @02:52AM (#46228765)
Agreed! The problem is that some 'seniors' never cared to learn patterns in the first place. That’s a huge problem for frontend, where we have increasingly complex architectures and people with very little experience with design.

Even some principles aren't known. I always recommend the book Head First: Design Patterns. It's in Java, but the lessons can be applied in every language.

Unfortunately, we are in a 'post-knowledge' era... I don't know how we can keep things up at this pace.

Two words: Disco Elysium

Maybe you need VA too

Re:Steam Machine on Thursday November 13, 2025 @09:37PM (#45923246)
Storage seems small to how crazy big some games have bee EDIT: Maybe it needs a combo ssd for system + hdd for storage
Re:Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @02:20AM (#45743276)
I have been thinking on dropping Windows, that I use only for gaming, but the issue is that I got a Nvidia graphics card and didn't have time to check if the support for it in Linux got better

But after experiencing the new Windows 11 "always-online" model it might make me stick to AMD in the future

> OpenAI is trying to do something about it.

Ha good one

Svgs, date management, Http, so many simpler things we dont have solve and somehow people believe they will do it by putting enough money in LLMs when it cant count

Why some people understood when they tried it with blockchain, nfts, web3, AR, ... any good engineer should know principle of energy efficiency instead of having faith in the Infinite monkey theorem

Re:The Useless UseCallback on Monday July 28, 2025 @07:21PM (#44716981)
The useRef pattern seem like a code smell, maybe because I had some troubles with refs over the years.

Things were simpler when we had lifecycle methods to manage some of this things. But I`m sure that the next version of react will change everything and make us come up with more patters to try to fix the same problem again...

Yeah, now they have AI, Artificial Insecurity

just another tool to push us to work more for less

It don't work, but you better learn it and use it, because it will replace you and also now you got to delivery 30% more

There clearly some bias, some post critical of LLMs have been flagged [1]

Idk is 3th party actors or an push for "AI"

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3lsukqwhjvk26

Re:The time is right for a DOM templating API on Thursday June 26, 2025 @11:03PM (#44393371)
That's alright now LLM and crypto make this waste seem minuscule
Re:Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome on Thursday June 26, 2025 @09:12PM (#44392985)
Cant await for people to use it for CRISPR an it hallucinate some weird mutation

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