AI exists and traditional software engineering interviews were already absurd. I propose that interviews now consist of playing a minimum of 4 hours of Factorio together to determine if you'd want to work with someone.

Playboy created a Bluesky account and their first post is to complain about AI. They already understand the Bluesky userbase better than the bluesky devs

Wild linkedin profile

Pretty sure life will change a bunch starting next week.

…if a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent. There are several theorems which say almost exactly that. But these theorems say nothing about how much intelligence may be displayed if a machine makes no pretence at infallibility. - Alan Turing

new AI slop unlocked www.youtube.com/shorts/k3ECS... They're going after the archive footage the US Auto Industry yt channel posts.

no one hates a software dev more than a software dev

Ok so I'm making a new game!! And it's gonna be out soon this year!!! DICE HAVE NO EYES Dreamy roguelike featuring lots of dice, silly little dudes and stars and greed and regret and zero eyes.

It turns out a colleague asked copilot to turn a mermaid diagram into a png, a diagram I am guessing they also generated...

and for the record i'm not talking about making code to create art like a game or something. i'm saying *the code itself* can be art. a perfectly constructed api, a framework that fits together just so, when code comes together in a beautiful harmony, *that is art*, it requires artistry to create!

This is how I make tea now

I have to retract this. Turns out bluesky did it to themselves lmao. Their status page and update were wrong.

I cannot handle this double standard. The same ethical and environmental issue hold for generating both text and images. There's almost a NIMBY-ism going on where genAI is looked down upon but only in the areas you're proficient in, and in other fields it's acceptable.

you know you've been computering for too long when you can recognise what this is

I think someone high up at PepsiCo has fallen to AI psychosis cuz they have now personified flavours of a SECOND product.

People need to stop blaming the last outage on vibe coding. There was a DDoS, intended to bring the application down, so that you don’t use it. Now you have to deal with it, or the attackers win.

I’m starting to think “agile” is an excuse for product owners to be non technical

My fatal flaw is that I think implementing something from scratch is easier than plugging existing things together.

I feel so stupid lol. I'm setting up a new arch install and couldn't get any modern browser running. There was also a weird limit on the number of terminals. 12h and a skipped dinner later, turns out its because I limited the number of processes way too much following the security recommendations

neat golang snippet I'll use forever now. It documents exit statusses, but also encourages you to exit only in the main package and think about valid exit reasons.

My internal clock is even daylight savings aware wtf. I wake up and see 6:30 on my alarm clock and it felt off. So I check my tablet and I see it’s 7:30 already. I would have overslept otherwise.

500 LoC for 1. basic web file caching 2. rss feed parsing and aggregating and 3. writing the output to a silly named pipe so that this feed aggregator is hostable as a feed itself. Using nothing but the Go stdlib. That was a fun aside, but the question is... what was I working on originally?

don't mind me, just calculating how long I can hibernate for using all my savings.

I finally put something on openfl.eu If you want to follow what I, the person, am up to, check that site occasionally.

today I found out openai is scraping my private git instance so I went out of my way to give them HTTP 444 no responses.

A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year

Seeing this irl instead of that diagram is even more disgusting.

The discount bin at the hardware store is my mortal enemy

I love triple blind typing. 1) I’m not looking at my keyboard 2) my keycaps don’t have labels printed on them 3) I’m not looking at the screen.

genAI is dying repost to make it die faster

Work horror story #152: there’s an azure pipeline that creates a docker image by writing the dockerfile line by line in an embedded powershell script.

I filled out yet another AI survey at work today. This time I got a very sensible response out imo. Maybe because I’m burned out from hating on it too much. It doesn’t contain all my opinions, but mostly stuff relevant to a corporation: pastebin.com/raw/V9AJwGyE

It was nice going back to basics. No compiler, operating system, apis, docs, networking, versioning, users, but most of all no genAI. Just my fingers, buttons and a screen.

It’s incredible how much drying your 3d print filament helps. Whatever issues I thought I had with my first layer are completely gone. All I did was store it in a bucket with moisture absorbing stuff.

New thought. genAI is insentivised just like advertising is. It needs to stand out, be flashy and look promising all while the actual value is secondary. That's also how it has been trained/fine tuned whenever human labelers are involved, who are under time crunch.

my new year's resolutions include staying a night here

Surrounded by incompetency and mismanagement.

Unbeatable Stream and Animated PNG Tuber Debut!

#Unbeatable I've been animating my first png Tuber and I think I've been cooking.

When you’re cold they’re cold. Bring your robot lawnmowers inside 😢

Cycling through the snow was so much fun that, except that cars had to ruin it again. #fuckcars

TODAY IS THE FINAL DAY YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN BEING IN THE BAR! If you wanted to come along for a drink now's the last chance! Tomorrow is the final day where everything gets wrapped up!

I realised I didn’t do much this year. Next year will be different haha. No, for real. I’m going to climb a mountain, cycle far and long, and dedicate myself on my coding project.

THERE IS 3 DAYS LEFT IN THIS EVENT AFTER TODAY! if you've been curious to be a part of it please make the most of these final days before the new years!

I love meta programming it's like programming before you actually start programming so you can program your programming. (I'm using go's reflect atm)

Handle the db transaction failure? Nah just implement our own mutex around transactions. How is this company still afloat…

there are a lot of puppy girls in my discover feed lately

maybe we could use another splash screen.