Just saw an article about a failing attempt at the UK to create a nationwide parking app.
Mostly because the many, *many* parking meter app operators in different markets don't want a single, interoperable standard.
But, there is one all of them must support or stop working entirely.

It is the "room temperature at sea level" standard for any western user interface: point and click, text input, English UI text.
Can't AI be a front-end for that?

This is also a rant about AI. There are sooo fucking many modules for siri or Alexa to be compatible with apps like uber or Spotify. Uh, why? Shouldn't the AI, that claims to he capable of recognizing images and text, just open the app and click on the right buttons?

I know why siri and Alexa and Google assistant and and chatgpt aren't capable of that - because it would free users from UX lock-in, and the corporate overlords would rather shut down the entire fucking internet.
But now with DeepSeek and other open-source moderately useful LLMs, could we finally be nearing the day when we can ditch the millions of marginally different apps and let the AI take over the piloting of their redundant GUIs?

Because then, even if app vendors don't want to work together and end up fucking up the aggregate UX for every smartphone user, we can just flip them the bird and let the AI blur their entire brand identity in the background of a "please wait while I operate some second-page apps to realize your request" message.

I want to open a private rehab where I would delete your social media accounts, take your phone/laptop/internet access away, get you treated by a psychiatrist, make you take your pills on time every time, make you work, then spend your free time on quality things like reading books or making art, or exercising, or just sleeping, and when you disobey and say this and that — I'll beat you with a fucking whip. Oh, and you'll have a normal balanced diet with no junk food, sugar or sweeteners.
I swear to god that 90% of people's problems are solved by therapy followed by cattle prodding.

Presenting your work and disabling all breakpoints sometimes feels like a driving license test but the brakes are disabled. Just pray nothing unexpected happens.

was looking for this for months, now I'm a happy kid =]

when you think you're being helpful

Missing a meeting because I was reading devRant. Worth it.

Why does the girl in the Google Meet permission dialog have anal beads for hair?

Got to stage 3 of 5 of an inteview and just discovered the person at stage 4 decides who is qualified to continue, interviews are crazy this days, am lucky i got a job and am not desperate else i would be screwed by this assholes 😡.

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My god why are all parser combinator libraries in Rust so bad??

Is it too much to ask for to parse a normal ass programming language with error recovery???? That's like 99.99% of what people need a parsing library for and somehow error recovery is always some weird after thought bandaged on after the fact

For fucks sake, I'm finally getting over the urge to reinvent the wheel all the time, but now all the libraries suck ass so I have to. Arrghh!

Fuck SAP!
I honestly can’t understand how anyone considers SAP a good ERP software. Either they’re brain-dead, or they actually enjoy the mind-numbing, repetitive work that turns them into the top rat in the race. AAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!

It’s an inconsistent mess—counterintuitive, clunky, and filled with absurd navigation and unnecessarily complicated database links.
And when people praise it like it’s some divine gift to humanity, I can’t help but wonder just how miserable their real lives must be.

There are some list views where you get to something you want, if there is some incomplete data in the list.
There’s a "POSITION" button to help you find what you need—but not everywhere.

Some fields require you to save at a certain step, while others don’t, leaving you to realize halfway through the next step that you forgot to save something.
Want to cancel halfway through? Too bad. You’re stuck unless you TCode your way out—because YOU HAVEN’T FILLED ALL THE FIELDS.

Every option, and its cousin, has a separate TCode.
Even for a simple concept, you need to memorize five different TCodes, create five similar-sounding tables, link them together, and at some point, connect one of them to company data—even if there’s only one company.

Why is it so complicated?! And don’t tell me “it has a lot of modules”—that’s not an excuse. Every menu is complicated on its own.
Instead of designing a logical workflow, they just wing it, throwing in sub-options as they go, then expect the end user to figure out how to link everything together.
Why not take a top-down approach—link all company-related data in one place while still allowing independent options to be linked elsewhere if needed?

I mean, you can’t even use Ctrl+Backspace to delete a word. The UI is that fragile.

And then I remember—it’s German software. That kinda explains it.
Speaking of which, the TCodes—the backbone of the system—are still based on German, even though the entire software is in English.
So the rest of the world is stuck trying to memorize bullshit codes with no logical reference.

FUCK ANYONE WHO SUPPORTS THIS SHIT.

Yes, i like to rant.
Yes I confirm this:
https://devrant.com/rants/13046679/...

Yet they produce bold statements about AI being in the 50 top programmers and shit.

LMAO

I tried vscode copilot insider both normal and with agents up to o3-mini and all other models (gemini, claude, etc)

I just had to do 2 things:

1) Custom angular table component which follows usual angular standards and custom columns are available (button columns, date columns etc). Asked to add an accordion column and test it in a component.
Given other samples from my code and internet.

Totally fuck up. Column never appeared and never worked. Tried to refine prompt and context 10 times each model. Nothing. it just spits shit in the chat console and tries to do backflips in resoning (agent mode) and also in edit mode.

Sometimes it even gets stuck and just goes into edit mode and refuses to modify files and just spits the code in the chat LMAO and I have to reboot vscode to make it work again.

2) Tried some unit tests with jest, given PLENTY of samples of working tests from my code.
Told it to strictly adhere to every syntax, rule and detail it sees in my tests.
Yet it adds unwanted imports, fucks up stuff and invent things.

what a delusional shit

I literally said to myself: "Sigh, I want to believe this shit will relief me from the unbearable pain of dealing with this shit angular code and this utter shit jest crap idiotic framework for testing.
I will allow myself 2 days to waste time on this retarded shit".

2 days wasted, ai = useless and bug shit.

Heck at some point i thought I was unable to write prompts and let another ai write my prompts for me to feed into copilot, but it didn't change anything.
I read an article that said you shouldn't talk "robotic" to ai and you get 10x results and i tried to talk to it like i was explaining to a colleague, then to a kid. Nothing.

Again work is safe. They are years away from making anything really replacing any human programmer with decent experience.

Outsourcing company offered me a 6 month contract....

The freelancing is pretty slow right now so I basically have to take it. Only thing is the interview was so long ago I can't remember where or who the client is

- AI (LLM)
- quantum microchips (https://x.com/satyanadella/status/...)
- flying and electric cars (https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/...)

what a time to be alive!!!

$149???

My senior systems development manager created a pull request for the API. The PR has some database changes such as new columns, as I was testing it locally, I found out that those new columns don't have any migration file (which we're always doing when doing database changes).

So I asked why we don't have any migration for those new columns.

Then he answered that I should run some SQL script to add the columns and he doesn't have any migration and is proud to say he's using the central DB (test and live).

I also checked the Live database and was so surprised to see those columns...

Then again, I asked why we already have the columns in the Live database where in the PR isn't merged yet.

Then he answered again, I should think ahead. there are many ways to add the columns.

Like WTF??? Don't we need any migration?

I asked, if we use a fresh DB, what happens if there is no record of those columns in the migration files?

@Lensflare I don‘t need to go to whatever websites that you are linking.

You can‘t experience the state of being dead, by definition.
No amount of drugs or spiritual bullshit will give you an actual experience of being dead, because nobody knows how it is to be dead, because it‘s fucking impossible, again, by definition.

Just because your drug trips give you the feeling of "woah bro, it’s totally like I‘m dead, bro" doesn‘t mean it‘s actually like being dead. Fucking imbecile.

I really want this whole industry to die. I want it to happen from the bottom of my soul!

Their whole job ad was about web technologies where they were asking for a 7-10 years Symfony developer.

One would think being a programmer for 10 years should superseed your shitty LLM prompt crafting requirements.

Truly, there never was a better time for global EMP to happen..

The year is 2025.

WSL2 still makes it a major, excruciating pain in the ass to expose a port over the network without having to look up the fucking command and think about the stupid cancerous networking model every time.

All I wanted to do was run some experiments with AI models on my gaming laptop using its GPU, and expose an API to my other laptop, having the latter as a client.

Guess I have to get fucking rid of Windows forever if I want a fucking usable computer.

It's hard to at all times view yourself from both your own eyes and the eyes of those who oppress you, trying to measure yourself by their tape as they spit in your face.
English is not my language, and the West is not my civilization. Even if I finally get to live in Europe, I will never belong there because of my roots. The place where those roots grow from first imbued me with the sense of being subhuman to the western guys, and then exiled me altogether because of who I am.
I never felt home anywhere. I wasn't home at home because of my so-called parents, now I'm not home because I live in a limbo where I did leave Russia but didn't reach my destination yet, and I know full well I'm not going to feel home when I'm in Europe. If I ever get there that is.

> Americans: THOSE ENGINEER KIDS HIRED BY ELON ARE BRILLIANT AND AMBITIOUS, THEY ARE SO SKILLED, THEY'LL DO WONDERS FOR THE COUNTRY
> me, knowing full well the average dev is a retarded mongrel I wouldn't trust with a hotdog stand, without even going into the whole "Musk is a schizo" story

When the inventor of CSS said "Damn I have this great idea..!" somebody should have told him to chill and tell him "no worries, someone else will do, too."

What no one told me was, as a senior resource how much context switching I need to do.
It's not even 12pm and I have been in 5 meetings, about 4 different projects
-- streaming platform but blockchain (Node, Golang) > planning + deployment issues meeting
-- goodreads but lighter > frontend approvals and ideas
-- custom node module development in C++ for internal db > debugging
-- SD card ETL tool > estimations and planning

My university sent me a signed paper. The signature was the ugliest, handwritten, version of a name. It was like a child signing their name for the very first time.

I am so happy, I am not alone with that problem. Thank you, university administrator, for sharing my plight.

Well, my boss is officially unhinged.

He threatened me in a call. He thinks I ratted him out to HR for living over seas. Funny thing is I don't give a rats ass, he's got the wrong guy.

Going to HR now though, see if I can move teams to minimize the damage he can afflict on me.

Ever tried opening up x15 IntelliJ IDEA's sessions with all different repos at the same time after 3 months, so all of them would trigger reindexing?

There's the first time for everything I guess...

Been having stomach pains since I read my boss's email, giving me new tasks.

This is becoming regular btw. It happens even when I run into him.

Any advice for how to manage?

I hate tech.

Trying to find a solution to problem in tech:
- 5 to 10 minutes searching for the correct terminology for the problem you are having.
- 5 to 10 minutes trying to find a solution.
- 5 to 10 minutes trying to find the correct terminology because the first terminology was wrong.
- 5 to 10 minutes finding the correct solution for your platform version.
- all the while dodging sketchy AI results
- Either you find a solution or you find it can't be fixed on your platform because X vendor is a POS.

So, this is not quite what happened today, but it pisses me off. I cannot imagine not being non-technical trying to use any platform this day and age.

I am trying to access data off of a backup. The data I want is in a user directory on a windows backup. I cannot get to user content because the user for the machine the backup came from is not known. I try with explorer and it says I need to elevate priv. So I do. It sits there and just spins icon doing nothing forever. The volume for viewing the backup is read only (actually a good idea, but annoying, can't change permissions).

So I remember that explorer artificially enforces permissions on folders. So I get Q-Dir which has worked in the past. So I get it installed and it fails to elevate privs. WTF! Everywhere I search I see no solution and shitty AI results. Then from the back of my mind I remember. Run Q-Dir as admin (which doesn't work on explorer due to artificial enforcement). So I do. It can access anything from the backup regardless of location.

WHY THE FUCK DO THESE BULLSHIT BARRIERS EXIST? It only causes frustration from users and locks people out of their data.

I hate technology.

I think I’m slightly gay

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