Just, non-dev-people. Do I need to say more?

Bossmang wrote a cursor prompt to pull tickets, their SLoC counts, and their average time to completion per dev, then praised or chastised accordingly.

You guessed it: no thought to complexity, code bloat, or scope creep. Just SLoC/day, days/ticket.

What won the statistics award is being assigned lots of small tickets /
tickets without scope creep, committing branches that don’t get merged, writing verbose spaghetti, using AI to write/rewrite large swaths of code, and simply moving large files.

Great job, dude! 💯🎉

Oh dang, now that the individual components of Orchid are nearly complete, I should probably improve this ratio.

A PCIe gen 7 1x slot has roughly the same data rate as a gen 3 16x slot.
Let me guess what that much bandwidth can ever be used for? AI 😑

people really do seem to be trying to tell you as hard as possible that being happy should be illegal

found something that makes you happy? here's an excuse why you shouldn't do it. biiiitch

if the excuses don't work then let's try fearmongering, laws, "suggestions" as if they're your parents... know better than you... since when? you're not in my body so how are you qualified or would even be accountable for making these suggestions at me? what kind of nonsense is this?

I bought a melting neon colored skull shirt that glows in the dark 😏

the image will be complete

Sold my first ever license. :) Months of work paid out.

Like many of us, tired of hearing the expressions: "infused with A.I.", "powered by A.I.", "augmented with A.I.", "A.I.-first", etc.

Me and my bug are having dinner date

.rep:

Fixing old bits of code for my build tool so I can extend the damn thing and I'm throwing away so much shit. Can't stop man.

Pretty crazy as this code is, IIRC, 2 to 4 years old at most. And I am sure that I was feeling like an absolute legend when I wrote this ignominious fucking garbage, as in it is quite clever, just in a downright dogshit kind of way.

So I'm hacking away at this eternal monument to the abstract gonorrhea-infected bleeding and fully dilated defecating anus that are my past decisions, and I'm wondering, have I actually learned to write simpler code or am I just gonna repeat this process a few years down the road and get stuck in some kind of funky chronodisplacement self-sodomizing limbo.

Well, for one, I *am* very much simplifying the code because most of it I'm just outright deleting, and what I have to replace or rewrite is fairly succinct, so I'm feeling good about that. Second, and get this, now I have the advantage that I've actually used this piece of shit for a few years so I have the benefit of knowing where I fucked up from a user perspective, which is invaluable.

Yeah, I think I nailed it this time. No more fucking around; pinky-promise.

jmp .rep

Is this so different from tech startup presentation?

Our revolutionary platform leverages next-gen AI, decentralized blockchain orchestration, and hyper-scalable cloud-native microservices to synergize collective intelligence and unlock a paradigm shift in human potential. By gamifying sustainability through tokenized social impact layers and deploying frictionless API integrations across Web3 ecosystems, we’re not just disrupting legacy infrastructures—we’re architecting a regenerative future. Our mission-driven, community-centric, and data-sovereign approach empowers Gen Z digital natives to co-create resilient value networks that transcend borders, democratize innovation, and ultimately save humanity from systemic collapse.

If weed can damage your short term memory, imagine what weed can do to you.

Stay away from weed!! It does something to you but I forgot what.

Guys, chatgpt seems not to be working. Princess is able to answer all your questions! It's grok, so less woke and has rant context. It is possible to say: @princess, fact check what @whimsacle said in last message. Who is the most accurate @pony or @pany? Questions do not have to be related, it's just optional info that it has before answering your question.

Yo Amazon Music! Seems like it takes a LOT of resources just to play music.

Who coded this?

(Only using it because of the lossless FLAC, but still, damn, it's a heavy power drain.)

> These "AI doomers," as they've become known, > represent a growing faction within the artificial intelligence community convinced that humanity is running out of time to implement safeguards against potentially catastrophic AI systems.

Also rock music will be the death of civilization and turn our kids into satan-worshiping pedophile. A friend of mine killed himself because of dungeon and dragon and I lost my mummy to candycrush

I swear, people can't recognize a social panick when they see one.

Do you really like Google's material design? I find it really ugly...

Beat arkveld first try! Hammer only lol.

I discover every day some new annoyment with Windows 11. So far, I haven't found a single advantage over Windows 10. Windows 11 is a 100% downgrade.

Burned out but trapped at work for next 4-6 weeks - need survival tips

I'm 31y/o software dev and I'm completely fried and need advice on how to hang on until I can quit.

After 5 months job hunting, I landed a role that turned into a nightmare. 6 months of being bounced between different teams/scopes/projects with impossible deadlines and covering for incompetent managers/colleagues has left me burned out. Problem is, I'm finalizing a mortgage and can't quit or take sick leave without messing up income verification stage. Need to survive 4-6 more weeks.

Work is toxic and unpredictable - not enough resources given, blaming, shifting priorities, undefined tasks, endless meetings. Fake sense of urgency. Never feeling a sense of completion - there is always something extra that comes up. Documenting everything to have paper trail in case shit hits the fan, but honestly it feels like I'm at war daily and it's exhausting. I'm weeks behind on everything.

I have ADHD and my usual meds (18mg Concerta/10-20mg Lisdexamphetamine of Adixemin brand) aren't working anymore. Im able to fall asleep only after taking 0.2-0.3mg of Xanax or smoking some THC/CBD flowers. Constant brain fog, shot memory, never feel rested. Maybe 2-3 productive hours max daily before I become useless - either depressed or too wired and too anxious to function.

Already tried bunch of supplements (all possible forms magnesium, vitamin D, fish oil, my supplements drawer has like 60 different bottles), cleaned up diet, cut dairy/nicotine/alcohol/caffeine, taking strategic vacation days here and there in beginning or ending of a week.

I also suspected some allergies, tried out quercetine + vitamin c + all possible anti allergy meds - didnt help. I even suspected inflammation - tried curcumin and all other stuff - useless.

Anyone dealt with extreme burnout while trapped in a job? How do you function when your tank is empty but quitting isn't an option?

Only thing that helps is that I work fully remotely. Exercise would help but I cant force myself to do it.

Once the mortgage closes, I'm gone. Get a less stressful job lined up. Just need to survive until then without falling apart completely.

client generated our goals and guidelines with Claude
Had a 2 hour meeting trying to understand what they want from us
Now we're using ChatGPT analysing the meeting's transcript to explain to us what the client wants from us

STOP USING AI IN HUMAN-HUMAN COMMUNICATIONS FFS

"We weren't able to come up with a solution before because we were using GPT-3, and now GPT-5 has come out which is so much better"

"Even if the issue's unique, it's the context that matters. Had we put in a higher level prompt, we would've fixed this issue already"

"We absolutely need to implement an AI-first system because Amazon laid off so many engineers because of AI, it must mean that we are not using it properly."

"I'm gonna put a $1000 into trying Devin, and if it doesn't work, we're gonna keep trying over and over until we eventually reach the solution"

sigh....

The symbol for things to avoid in biology: ☣️
The symbol for things to avoid in physics: ☢️
The symbol for things to avoid in IT: ✨

Great documentation

Classic micromanagement.

My internet connection was kinda bad and I needed to have meetings with the IT manager about handovers with hosting stuff. So we decided to have me record videos of whatever is necessary. Now I hear from one of the bosses videos aren't good enough, we need meetings. And record the fucking things again. Seriously...

They just want to make me do redundant shit for the next three days until I am finished with this job on Wednesday.

Zig needs to get its shit together frankly.

I know the guy wants to perfect his little design, but has he never considered the fact that the shifting sands of perfection will never align for him?

Instead of working on making progress with the design he already established, he just keeps going back and changing fundamental parts as he sees fit and never making any forwards prog-

oh my god he's me.

What is the worst thing you have seen on a new job?

can society, friends, jobs stop shaming me for having purpose on my life

it's so strange

I want to 3d print this badly. It freaks me out

when will my brain become one with rust already

sigh

My scripts are made to be stupid-proof. Turns out I should have written them extra-stupid-proof.