Surely I would have noticed a lack of posting

You say that, and yet here you are...

Happy Trans Day of Visibility

Today is probably my favorite trans holiday because it's about existing and being visible. No more, no less. When I started my transition it was important to me to be visible. Not just within the trans community, but to my cis gendered family and friends as well.

Played my first game of Dandân against my roommate and got wrecked. It snowballs so fast and I love it. Would fish again.

When you unlock pokemon shops and the pokemon clearly don't understand how economies work, and are instead just happy to trade

Huge reason why I love Pokopia more than Animal Crossing - Animal Crossing feels like paying bills and doing chores.

Pokopia is just a socialist pokemon paradise.

Pokopia: Teaching today's kids that solving homelessness is as simple as building houses and letting people live in them.

I really try to put context in most of my tweets so that the picture isn't needed. Or fill in alt text.

But I can't on this one. It's just too soul crushing.

I'm losing it. I'm fucking losing it.

What the fuck is this Claude? What the fuck.

At least with crypto and NFTs and blockchain I could largely ignore it besides making fun of it. At least it wasn't a requirement to participate in society back then.

Now? Even normies are being affected. It's nuts.

Right. Like. If this is going to be my "job" because I have to live in a fucking society, I need to be able to do it. I need to be able to engage with it. But every time I give it the best possible use case to impress me, it does the opposite.

Fuck. I'm so frustarted.

Anyways this is a lot of words to say fuck AI agent coding.

Finding the one word I was missing in my connection string, to enable the one feature I was missing. To enable the one thing I was trying to make work. My commit log is literally adding one word to one line of code. I've been working on this for a week at a time on and off for the past two years.

Finally, when I manually went back to the docs, followed them line by line, comparing them line by line with my code, and my understanding of both. It's one of the last things I WANT to do as a Senior Engineer, because I feel like having to find a needle in a haystack is a feel bad moment.

At best I'm arguing with Claude as I relearn the specifics of what each line is doing and why it's there. At worst it's outright gaslighting me into more and more obscure suggestions wasting my time further.

I just don't get it.

It's frustrating, because I haven't looked at this code in 4 months, and not heavily for about a year. It's not fresh in my mind, and I am aware AI agents have changed a lot in the past 6 months of my unemployment. So FINE. I'll assign one simple task to an agent, maybe it'll find something.

This is 100 lines of code that I fed it. It clearly understands the intent of the code, but it has no concept of solutions to fix it. It feels like the answers it's giving me are the worst answers from stack overflow, when I'm desperate for SOMETHING someone hasn't tried yet. It's never good.

It was recommending things I'd already tried, which, valid, but then it'd recommend things like turning off security settings on the iPad, which, seems like an obvious red flag?

It hallucinated comments. It hallucinated the contents of comments. It openly lied to me, and apologized when caught.

LLMs should be amazing at finding a single nonsense word that's missing in a giant chunk of nonsense words. That's their entire usecase. I found myself going on deeper and deeper rabbit holes because of Claude's recommendations.

I just don't understand vibe coding. I argued with Claude for 3 days trying to find a really specific bug that I've been troubleshooting for a while now. Surely, the one thing an LLM should be good at. As a Senior Engineer, my biggest LLM gains should be fixing very specific bugs.

DLSS5 off: catgirl 3d model DLSS5 on: cats(2019)girl taylor swift 3d model

A screenshot revealing I've played 105 hours or more of pokopia. Taken from the switch app on my phone. It has a picture of pokopia alone with the words saying my approximate play time.

I don't have a problem. I can't stop whenever I want.

Also I got to level 10 on all four main zones. 😤

Anyways, no judgements. Just giving an alternative perspective. I love my personal digital museum. The convenience of being able to have any of my movies or games or music at my fingertips is amazing.

It's easier than it sounds. Once the server is setup, it's just a matter of being organized how you fill it. It did take me a lot of time to rip and dump my collection though. Mostly let it run while doing other things. Very passive process.

Totally agree with the original hardware being the way to play. I prefer it when I can, but sometimes even emulation handhelds or modded consoles can be beneficial experiences. My best friend wanted to play FFX with Japanese voices and English subtitles. I modded her switch and the game for her.

Also, I don't often rely on others' preservation. I built my own NAS. I have 40 TB of storage space (30, technically, since it's striped) that I keep my personal archives on. I backup a lot to a private cloud account too. I'm a digital pack rat.

Assuming the console is moddable, getting ROMs off your own digital collection is generally trivial. Easier than dumping a cartridge, at least without having to buy or build a reader.

I have a big vinyl collection myself, but that's a different beast. There's a quality difference between vinyl and streaming.

They will do everything they can, but it will never be enough. The dark web will always prevail.