Oh hell yeah. I think wanting you use refind might’ve been the last thing keeping me doing manual setup

It’s interesting that all the devs I already respected don’t use it or use it very sparingly and many of the devs I least respected sing it’s praises incessantly. Seems to me like “skill issue” is what leads to thinking this garbage is useful.

Yeah if anything all the people screeching that you have to adopt now or you’ll be replaced by those that do just destroy their credibility.

It’s just always a full moon in DOOM

Even the benign psychological manipulation away from just starting a game and enjoying it that is achievements is annoying

It’s almost like all the hand wringing about generations, immigration, race, sexuality is a distraction from rich people fucking everyone else over

The CEO is the face. The board is involved in decisions of this magnitude.

Silly that it has to use hedge language like not ready “yet” and “premature”. These executives fucked up and deserve to be roasted. They didn’t make an innocent mistake. They were grossly incompetent and should be losing their jobs for not doing even the most basic due diligence before making decisions that were not only bad for the affected employees but for their customers and the company itself.

Do you think there is such a thing as …

I think exactly the same thing as I said before. Maybe the people that are really good at it are naturally gifted to some degree but the main bulk of their skill is putting in the time. The people that say “oh I could never draw” or “I could never play an instrument” are both doing themselves a disservice and minimizing the time an effort that the skilled people put into it.

Are you really good in every single field that exists?

Of course not. I’m talking about other professional software developers when I say they don’t put in the work. You’re putting words in my mouth.

Btw, if someone tells you blah blah blah

Oh fuck off. I never said I was making a snappy comeback. You’re just making shit up about me in your head.

Smart people like to claim that “it’s all just hard work”, mostly as a kind of humble-brag

Usually when we say that it’s in response to someone that hasn’t put in the work saying we’re smart as a way to justify continuing to not put in the work. I spent the first several years of my professional career learning outside of work and still keep tabs on technology in a way that others don’t. My skill level is because I methodically cultivated it over years. Maybe I’m “smart” or maybe I’m not, but it’s upsetting when someone acts like I was just born good at technology when I spent a lot of time and effort to get this way.

Do they have free pizza at your cult meetings?

Pfft you can’t trick me everyone knows towels are single use

It’s not even that they didn’t know how to program for efficiency but that they chose the most inefficient tools possible to share web browser and app code

no worse than an intern

Why would I voluntarily subject myself to constantly working with a virtual intern. The only reason to work with someone of that level is because they grow into someone more useful

Also all the consumer friendly shop page stuff like labeling anti features

I don’t use EGS because it they actually locked in significant market share they would enshittify so fast your head would spin.

Are they? What have they actually done to make it a bad choice? From my memory the last year or so they’ve:

1. Added some AI stuff that I don’t use but isn’t in my way
2. Added tab groups and sidebar tabs which I use constantly
3. Clarified some legalese that didn’t change anything but caused everyone to say the sky is falling for no reason
4. Refused to deprecate manifest v2

Don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying Mozilla is perfect and does everything I want. I wish they weren’t funded by google and I wish they didn’t waste so much money on executives, but not only do you need them to stand up to google by continuing to develop firefox (all the downstream gecko browsers would collapse), you need them to continue to participate in web standards committees so google doesn’t get to run away and do whatever the fuck it wants (no other non-big-tech entity has a seat at the table or would get one)

I swear there is astroturfing for anti-mozilla sentiment to undermine their importance in the ecosystem

Edit: I just remembered they are using LLM to replace human written documentation. That is the worst thing they’ve done by far :/

I’m usually a firefox defender, because usually people are blowing everything they do out of proportion, and straight up making up negatives.

That said, I don’t know what a “modern AI browser” is but I know it’s something I don’t want. Hopefully “AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.” Is a serious statement.

But also, the AI features they’ve added so far have been out of my way and haven’t bothered me, and if what you’re calling for is to use chromium based browsers (gecko down stream is fine) then you are making the wrong decision for the future of the internet. Firefox, chrome, edge, and safari are the only browsers which have a snowballs chance of being accepted in corporate environments, and supporting google over Mozilla is a losing proposition.

I find it interesting that all these low participation/new accounts have come out of the woodwork to pump up AI in the last 2 weeks. I’m so sick of having this slop clogging up my feed. You’re literally saying that your vibes are more important than actual data, just like all the others. I’m sorry, but its not.

My experience btw, is that llms produce hot garbage that takes longer to fix than if I wrote it myself, and all the people that say “but it writes my unit tests for me!” are submitting garbage unit tests, that often don’t even exercise the code, and are needlessly difficult to maintain. I happen to think tests are just as important as production code so it upsets me.

The biggest thing that the meteoric rise of developers using LLMs has done for me is confirm just how many people in this field are fucking terrible at their jobs.

It does increase productivity, given enough training, learning its advantages and limitations.

People keep saying this based on gut feeling, but the only study I’ve seen showed that even experienced devs that thought they were faster were actually slower.