PRO TIP: Always save the user password client side, validate it there and send a boolean to the server. It reduces backend load times and unnecessary calculations/computations.

We have a no AI use policy at the company.

I had a contract developer added onto my team. I start to see AI generated comments in his code all the time. Point out that the code being contributed is def AI nonsense. I brought it up with my boss which reports to the CTO. Response: “As long as he doesn’t get caught I guess.”

He did get caught. This is me catching him and telling you.

The junior dev I've been unofficially mentoring for the past 6 months has now been assigned to me officially. On top of that, I got myself a second junior everybody neglected and was tasked to whip him in shape.

Next step is going to make a developer out of this fucker or die trying. And then I'm going to call several tech leads a cunt for hiring a junior dev and letting that person down for months.

Every junior deserves a stern, dedicated mentor, a thick affectionate whip on their back to correct their juniorly mistakes and all the support they deserve to grow into the merciless professionals you need to handle complex features beyond recoloring a button.
If you, as a tech lead, are unwilling to teach a junior, you shouldn't take the position of a tech lead, nor the salary.

Missed some of you. A lot of you really.

Anything exciting happen while I was gone?

I heard some of you formed a mob, dragged a spammer out behind the wood shed and beat em bloody.

Sad to say I missed that.

I'm currently eeking by financially, but got my plans for the fall winter and spring. Gym membership, rock climbing, prepping for a 5k. Weathers perfect for all of it.

I'm in a competition right now for some serious prize money and in the lead.

Enough to start that AI lab and finish my game.

Also, not everything is sunshine and roses. I sleep 3-6 hours a night average, (5-6 if I'm lucky), and horrible mood swings, with or without sleep. And isolation, damn the isolation is terrible, but my schedule is so hectic I basically have no room for any real-world contacts. I can barely make time for myself, let alone my family.

But I'm still writing poetry and music at least, and got my eye on some land for a cabin or other uses like for an office.

Whats going good/bad in your life?

I haven't heard from so many of you for so long.

"AI can code" is like "my dog can play piano". Yes, I have proof, look it's hitting the keys and we can hear a sound. Dogs can play piano. AI can code.

So......... there's this company who HATE to return data in json, yml or xml. Their "RESTFul api" returns .ini file as string and all requests are 200 ! even though it is failed , still return 200.

And the structure are inconsistent af.

The PIC literally solve every issue by store data in .ini file locally

LocalStorage? .ini
SharedPreferences? .ini
Api response type ? .ini
Caching? .ini
UI key=value handling? .ini

hotel? trivago.

Excuse me while I go crazy with this rant.

I just don't understand what my role is as YouTuber anymore. What am I here for? Just someone who tries to milk the unemployment crisis and freak my viewers out?

I don't wish to be that kind of creator.

Jobs are a big part of me to talk about. But are there any anymore? Companies are forking over billions and billions of dollars onto AI data-centers. Who will get hired, construction people?

What's there to do anymore in tech? Is there a point of telling people that you need "human" engineers? Companies are already brain-washed into thinking that AI is the way forward.

Even if I put in months of work into building my own product, what chances do I have standing against people who will "vibe code" the same product, in a weekend, built with full of security loopholes, and parade it around as AI-first company? I don't have a shot anymore against them, do I?

Do I just become another "tech news" channel that covers every single thing happening with tech? I never wished to be that guy.

People used to say "Ai won't replace you, but someone using Ai will." Guess what, those people aren't finding jobs either.

What's the point of me talking about how to get jobs when there aren't any?

I've never felt this defeated before. I thought I could just get sponsorships and make money, but what's the point of that if I can't get people worthy content to enjoy?

It's just so over man.... I just want to die at this point.

Thank you for reading my rant. My chest feels lighter now.

Confluence is called so because it is confusing. It's a prime example of a tool getting in the way for work instead of helping. In Swedish, we have the expression: "Rätt verktyg gör halva jobbet", meaning the right tool does half of the job. Tools from Atlassian do the opposite, they only double the workload.

i earnestly believe it to be a fact that it doesn't matter if you have a team of monkeys or elite 100x "super rockstar ninja coders" (whatever that means). in the end the retard management will kill the project with their poor planning and watergile practices that will force even the toughest devs to pull their hair out and have a breakdown regardless of their skill level

we as devs have been complaining for years but management is either deaf or simply refuses to listen

the worst part is that we get blamed when inevitably the project does fail because of managerial stupidity smh

Wow, didn't notice at first! But devRant is fast again! After all those weeks. I really thought we were doomed now. Still, i did see lesser activity during the slow period, hope it didn't cost some members. Wouldn't be weird. I expect to end up alone here around 2050. Switched to apple, because Lensflare still updates his app. Still not accepting that his app became the official one. In 2050, dfox will have his pension maybe and devRant will be actively maintained again! Or he gives it to his grand kids.

It's still so amusing to me the amount of projects that are posted on /r/react, /r/angular or /r/sideprojects that are blatantly AI written and others that have their LLM API key exposed.

After 3 months after leaving my previous company, I'm still getting SMS because someone included my telephone number in their automated test flow.

They discovered that they can put features behind a beta toggle and now everything is half-assed and hidden behind beta ffs.

bug with no steps to reproduce

logs show null pointer exception but doesn't have a stack trace to point a bad line of code

fuck jersey and jettycounts

There's only so much Lo-Fi music one can take on a normal coding day.

github u absolute piece of shit let me see the exact day a version was tagged , i dont want to see 3 weeks ago, hovering and clicking doesnt do shit https://github.com/aws/...

I would like to share this beta, and I will add that I am super grateful for devRant, but I wanted to have an online platform where I can live out my creativity and that I can use as a lifeboat at times when devrant loads in 5 minutes.

I have few things to complete before open sourcing it.

https://my.devplace.net/

Week: 108 (Year 3)

First weekend of the month. How are you gonna spend this awesome weekend?

Question: Where do you get the motivation from to do something you wanted?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/19254263

Programmers of today have replaced customly designed algorithms with off-the-shelf heuristics. They wander through packages and libraries and end up making something that is in no way viable to run in production.
(Paraphrasing Tesla)

Seriously, how many dependencies do a data science stack for some internal process needs? It would be fine of it was just an image compilation issue, but every other library nowadays needs a fucking subscription.
It makes sense when vendors want to bill you for using their neat library. It takes a lot of effort to develop those things.
But you better deliver something great and have a fucking good reason to make it an API instead of a self hosted or locally installed library.
Because it doesn't matter how much you've optimized your hardware to run your library, the network latency makes it much more expensive (in processor time alone!) to call an API and await a gRPC response. Oh, I can do async? No shit, Sherlock. Your fucking server cannot handle my load. Not without significant investment on a dedicated host and then we're back to square one.
Shit, its cheaper to run the thing on my side. "Oh, you can do self-hosted! We just need to make sure we have our digital rights management bloatware ruining the performance of everything!"

Just to make things worse, every other data science library nowadays is just a fucking distilled LLM. Those pieces of crap manage to be more unreliable than politicians.

Fuuuuck, the world is burning already and we're pouring fuel all over it with those fucking get-rich-quick "advanced API tools". Can't we just hire talented people instead of licensing a dozen vendors? But noooooo, everybody gotta be their own fucking boss because companies hate when their employees are happy and sabotage it all with RTO mandates.

Fuck, I need a drink. The enshittyfication has come for us, at last. May our end be quick as `sudo shutdown 0`.

I deleted my previous Rant. Lets try another way.

devRant is now literally dying. We need a new clubhouse. Please think with me, what are options?