Once again admiring whoever determined that the "serving size" on these chocolate-covered espresso beans should be 1/4 cup.

I'm at the point of 100% of copilot review comments on my PRs resulting in comments of "fuck off bot". So that's how good your motherfucking genAI code is. If you're using genAI for code in any form whatsoever, you're absolutely a fucking idiot and should not be permitted near any fuckling code.

Sometimes I think that one of the things really killing large video game projects is the overwhelming push for documentation for everything. Need to add a small simple system that'd take you 30 minutes to build? Have to write a TDD first and get it approved by a half-dozen people.

Obviously it was DNS.

Reviewing pull requests from heavy AI "programmers": "Why did you open a PR for half of an update? Did your AI just give up partway through and you didn't even notice or bother to test? Why are you wasting my time?"

This isn’t gonna post anyway is it?

Quote posts are disabled because as they stick their fingers in their ears, the blue sky dev team is a testament to how fucking stupidity vibe coding is.

Fucking clown show

Me: here's the standard format for new entries in this release notes document
genAI user: ignores standard format, creates entirely new sections, screws up existing entries

FedEx is once again bad at actually delivering packages. "Sorry we couldn't deliver your package because business was closed or nobody was home." Motherfuckers I've been waiting on that delivery, and per security cameras zero drivers came to the door. Want support? Here's a useless AI chatbot.

I do wish all the online tax filing options weren't either a giant evil company or something that looks like a site someone's nephew built in a weekend and was created solely to scam some government funding.

Time for my annual rant about how absolutely fucking broken the US tax system is. The government has owed me 6 figures for the past 15+ years for massively overcharging me one year, and yet every year due to the way they limit deducting that, insists I have to *pay them* a substantial amount.

Reviewing a pull request on a project that lets programmers use genAI: a bunch of unrelated comments were changed just to replace hyphen with em dash. No human would ever have done that and wasted the reviewers' time having to filter through that for the actual changes.

Had basically the same response from my rep when I emailed him a year ago that Trump needed to be impeached and removed. It's just nonstop excuses for why they're not doing their jobs.

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See my prior post about the "we're fully aware it's unethical, but it's okay as long as it's not user-facing in ways that would cause backlash"

Blacksky currently uses large language models and “agentic coding” tools (primarily Claude Code) in developing its software. While we resist the usage of AI in other, primarily creative, domains where deep human involvement in every stage of the process is fundamental to the end product, software development is a field where AI has been transformative. Used cautiously and conscientiously, it enables experienced software developers to create software without requiring anywhere near the resources they needed before. This is not the case with other fields. It is, however, with software development. Nearly the entire industry has shifted over to using agentic coding to accompany software development, and it is widely accepted sentiment among developers that this represents the future of their work. Any software that you use now has likely been developed with some level of agentic coding. None of this is to say that these tools do not come with other ethical issues.

why is it that every """"reluctant"""" usage of AI by programmers ends up indistinguishable from its most passionate evangelists

My take on projects where AI-generated code is accepted but AI-generated art is not: they know it's bad and players hate it, but don't care. All they care is about the part players will see because it'll cause backlash.

I swear if I see one more fucking artist submit a pull request of AI-generated code I'm going to start replacing all of their art with programmer art.

This is also an improvement over the code coming out of the handful of vibe coders on this project I'm working on.

At least today is making the cat shitting on the floor instead of in the litter box look like a positive improvement on the day.

Anyone else having a really difficult time finding the will to file and pay taxes this week?

Every one of Karyl's posts is now hidden from view as Rude (Account).

I guess this is how bluesky deals with calling them out on AI bullshit.

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption:

"The highest quality video of the moon was just released…
so beautiful

* Artemis II"

It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.

If they really wanted cybersecurity contacts, the first thing to do is reject anyone who clicks the link in the email.

My first thought on receiving an email insisting that I must log in to my account via the provided link to add a cybersecurity contact is wow that looks like phishing.

There was an in-game solution, but young me took it seriously and instead ran the game in a debugger to find the password.

In this era of "reducing friction" and "player onboarding experience" I think back to one of the games I enjoyed when I was young where the entire starting instruction was a "Login please:" prompt.

Yeah. Our in-game reporter attaches a full current game state and history of the game - though that history is only really possible because it's a reasonably short-match turn-based game. It also includes any log messages from the game session. All of those have been very handy in tracking down bugs.

One of our games has an in-game bug reporting tool that automatically creates a ticket in Redmine for us, which in turn notifies a Slack channel. There is no connection between the issue tracking and the repository, other than a custom "commit sha" field to fill in when resolving a ticket.

I have always been confused at how anybody can ever get any actual work done in organizations that have scattered meetings every day. I either have a calendar up and am constantly watching it instead of working so I don't miss a meeting, or do work and ignore/miss those meetings.

This, or has ceased being produced at all.