You know what’s funny?

Companies say:

“We’re a family.”

Then schedule a “quick meeting” at 8:57 PM.

And somehow the “quick meeting” becomes:

* 14 new Jira tickets
* 3 “minor” production issues
* one database migration
* and a motivational speech about “ownership”

Meanwhile the production server is held together by:

* one Stack Overflow answer from 2017
* an environment variable nobody understands
* and a senior developer named Raj who disappeared two months ago but whose code still controls authentication somehow.

My favorite part?

When management says:
“We need to move faster.”

Brother.
The backend API still has functions named:
`finalFinal_v2_REAL.js`

We are not moving fast.
We are archaeologists.

If your are creating really something completely new, you have a custom idea / algorithm, AI is really against you. So far, I did not really notice it, because lets face it, when are you creating something really new? It`s mostly just all the same, maybe different gameplay, other type of data, but it is still the same. I am trying to reinvent agentic browsing because everyone fails at that. I found the golden hammer. I was so enthousiast that for the first time in quite a while i coded myself again. At a certain moment, i had my skeleton ready and do what i always do: I let AI finish it. That did it completely correct. But then, i went moving on and i started to realize that it was strongly opiniated to do things different > like everyone does > everyone fails.

AI is so interesting, i really compare it to learning C. Everytime you think you master it, you get shot in the foot unexpectedly. With AI it`s exactly the same.

Also, it is just NOT AI. That is ok it is still PARTIALLY useful... Very useful. But the last thing we need is a agentic React and feedback loop. I could write a rant about that as well. Those things are literally a trial on error approach delivering what we are used to from AI. Stuff that kinda works. Slowly, slowly, we find out that we actually don`t want someone to think for us. Maybe that is the great thing and benefit of a computer, it doesn`t think. Maybe the whole concept of AI, the idea of it, is broken.

Just like VR. Lets create a virtual world that looks super closely to the real world. But in reality, we already have a real world and it is not comfortable to be disconnected of it in the form of a headset. I think it will never be comfortable for me.

Some concepts are just better in theory than reality.

Still, I am the creator of the best AI companion / assistant ever! Only issue is, the magic is a bit gone if you create it yourself.

I was reading FreeRTOS documentation today and was reminded of ostream.
"Tasks are normally implemented as an infinite loop; the function which implements the task must never attempt to return or exit. Tasks can, however, delete themselves."

Roko`s balsalisk. Now you`re doomed. You should not have read it. There is no hiding from it now. You`re welcome.

I wonder if I should start looking for new work. I've only been at the current shop for 8 months, I could potentially get them to pay for part of my MBA (although I'd have to stay at the company for a year after reimbursement) and there might be management positions I can apply for once our current massive project goes live.

Still, I hate working with .NET, the AI stuff is making all our software worse, and it's still going to be difficult to get even close to my former pay level with local jobs in this town.

I'm just tired. I actually miss the company I got laid off from, but I'd also never go back there.

Coding privately:
"Ah... :typing:, click, having a look... run... edit... draw on paper.. think about it.. edit.. recompile.."

Coding at work:
"type as fast as possible and make a jumbled mess of everything and in the end deliver something that barely runs and meets requirements, only to have tons of headache from every company layer later, mandated by themselves"

We were told that one of our frontend guys is no longer with the company. There was no notice period. Our manager couldn't really say anything for privacy reasons. I sent him a text but haven't heard back. We don't know if he rage-quit or was fired. Makes me really uneasy.

as i shit here i realized, i havent been shitting blood for a longer time now. maybe even several months or so. my organism healed itself then i guess?

excuse me why are we fighting in the middle east

originally combustion engines used distilled alcohol farmers made in their backyards... which you can make from anything that has a sugar in it

it was more efficient than gasoline

but gasoline "had won" because they undercut the price of alcohol, gasoline lobbying the government to put a tax on alcohol and the whole prohibition thing

why are we even doing green scam. alcohol making has absolutely nothing environmentally harmful on it lol. those windmills and solar panels rot and leech chemicals into the environment, and those lithium batteries are a crazy explosion and toxic cloud hazard

humans, why.

now everyone is bitching about gasoline prices and itching to uselessly go to a war instead of Canada bothering to drill up oil under our territory that could power the world's energy consumption for the next 200 years and that's just the deposits we know about and assume are finite...

I hate humans

the green scam people say ohnooo so much food is wasted at the grocery store, we must use AI to improve the logistics and never make more than the necessary food because waste is so ungreen. ok you could make it into alcohol which is a more efficient gasoline. and no need to lug an extra ton of battery weight underneath every vehicle that now has an explosion radius of 30 meters lmao

it's like we wanna die

@Lensflare I did had an abuse report for discord.app.molodetz.nl > it's just a proxy to fuck over awesomemeest. But abuse indeed, they're talking about all the crawlers. Imagine, the traffic is so high, even discord considers it abuse.

DLSS5 in games looks horrendous lmao

https://nvidia.com/en-eu/geforce/...

Modern web development is fucked. Just absolutely, totally screwed up.

I want to create a simple to do list web app. Look for a tutorial: "OK guys, this is really easy, it just takes five minutes."

First step, install these:
- Git
- NPM
- NodeJS
- Express
- MongoDB
- Docker
- React

Second step, npm install about one million modules. Don't question what they do or why they're there.

Before you know it, six hours have passed and you've got a code base of 3GB and you haven't even _started_ on your app.

FUCK that shit! I can create this web app with Internet Explorer and Notepad.

Man, I always miss Rust whenever I'm using another language ;_;

Exhibit A: Serialization and deserialization

With serde in Rust you just derive the Serialize/Deserialize trait with a simple annotation and now you can magically serialize/deserialize the struct with any serde backend, whether JSON, YAML, some binary format, whatever

Currently doing C# and I just want to cry ;_;

Son of a bitch. You can't have gaps in your CV or you are considered a red flag. Companies want good-working rats that never take breaks in life!

Sick of this shit.