My LLM can beat your LLM.

We rolled out yesterday a new update out to our Desktop application. The goal was to do it last weekend but we failed for reasons. The update is a success and now we (devs, project manager, QA, COO, support) got an angry email from our CEO, he mentioned:
- He is very disappointed in the whole process
- we released it without a coordinated marketing campaign
- That the devs should have communicated to the customers
- That the devs should have communicated internally more
- That support is getting a lot of new support tickets. I asked support, they counted 0 for this product in the last 7 days.
- Asked us to self-reflect how we can improve.

My project manager (who is currently on paternity leave) responded with an angry email to defend the dev team and pointed out that the CEO fired the marketing guy (again). The deadline is here for months, that the CEO literally ran the update locally and sold the update to new customers. He also called the CEO "lack of self awareness" and "not understanding the update process" and "disappointed in this approach". He also said that he asked the developers not to respond to the email.

Love me some drama between higher-ups

Working 2 jobs is exhausting. In the evening head feels as if it were stuffed with sand. Like a punching bag.

Extra money is nice, but idk if it's worth that feeling...

One day, all down voted posts will be upvoted at once (now they do slowly upvoting the downvoted rants) and devRant will have a spam problem what it can't recover from. More will be spam than not. Thankfully, every comment my bots make is a tag. Based on that, we can filter very accurate on the spam and delete it all when it happens. They smart, but we're smarter. All spam is tagged.

Me coding with my CLI vibe coding tool. I realize how good it works and decided to make it more serious. For example, you see me asking it to investigate the directory and asking read files afterwards. That shouldn't be needed. It wasn't originally designed to be a vibe tool, that's why. But i want it to make changes to an existing project. That's why I let it read the files. But, here, successful change was made: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/Screenc...

Job Offer Letters Be Like:

Page 1: "We are pleased to offer you the position…"
Page 2-10: “Terms, conditions, policies, and consequences if you even think about breathing wrong.”
Page 11: "Sign below if you’re still alive."

Ok...... Wtf

what's the most fascinating book you've read?

When someone interrupts me during concentrated work:

"Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!"

dude1: Some man died from euthanasia.
dude2: He committed suicide?
dude1: No, he was killed by a gang of kids in China.

So I thought of this joke today so its definitely a work in progress. But then I wondered what happened with the suicide machine in Europe. So I found this horrifying account.

https://care.org.uk/news/2024/...

I mean, she got what she paid for...but...this is so fucked. I have seen a few discussions on this and there are complications to this account of what happened. I expect it will take months if not years to sort out what actually happened.

Imagine if it failed due to a dev bug? Who would want to work on such a machine? Seems so fucked.

Fuckers stole my ground. Can't have shit in South Africa

Rank Best to worst code readability
Mine 6,3,1,4,2,5

Damn. Now I really feel old. I forgot I used to do this:

I asked ChatGPT if different races have a different skulls. It says: "That's a sensitive subject blablabla" providing no answer. I asked the same to claude. That one refused to try to give answer on it at all. It's just such a freaking normal question. Information will never be the same. Destroyed by wokies. Why, from all people, are the wokies in charge of all this shit? The worst people imaginable for truth.

Stolen

Welp, I made a chatGPT bot, which talks to Amazon support instead of me lol .

So far there is 48 hours of discussions and my bot insist on pick up on my location to return and thier is you need to print label and bring it to postal service.

I'll let the 2 bots figure it out

If you want to know how bad the job market is in India, a colleague told me that he got offered a job from an employer, where the condition is he has to give 20% of his paycheck back to the employer in their other bank account.

No more CRUD

My manager is complaining I'm committing broken, incomplete stuff.

Before my manager was complaining I didn't commit enough.

My manager is an asshole.

I realized that I am old enough now that the first answer to "name a toy adults use in the bedroom" that comes to mind is: Kindle

Retoor's recent bot army fiasco is why we don't put AI in charge of anything. It wasn't a bug in her code, it was her AI misinterpreting her prompts while having access to the data bots act upon. Essentially, retoor's AI added a lot of legitimate users to the list of spammers, and the issue was in prompting, not in code.

Was over at some friends last night. Their 3 year old was playing with a toy that I 3D printed for her first birthday.

Good feeling, day made

Camel case can't be used in Postgres: table names are case insensitive. Pascal case can't be used too.
Kebab case is readable, but it can only be used in HTML, Clojure and probably some other lisps.
Thus, ugly-looking snake case is the most compatible casing.

Do you know that app where you catch monsters by throwing balls at them?

It's called tinder I think

"Well the tokenizer is usually in another code file"

Fuck you parse means load and interpret!

I received a new gig (matlab), client want me fix the data visualization. Not an issue but WTF

Things I didn't know existed, but now do because of devrant:
1 - calico dicks
2 - naughty trolling C devs that are girls
3 - dev elitists (actual elitists, not just trolls)
4 - superior German devs
5 - starving webdevs
6 - angular anger
7 - forum spam wars
8 - super shitters
9 - pedophile game devs who get banned
10 - you shouldn't say your mom to people because sometimes people's moms are dead

Saw someone complaining not enough dev rants.

I have a coworker who's a good friend. Got him this job. He has good output, smart kid, but our coding styles clash.

I believe in DevEx (since we write internal tools). He sees it as premature optimization.

Example:
He won't validate data from input we don't control because "it shouldn't change that much".

Results:
He codes fast, but delivers shit that breaks in production and others (me) have to fix.

It's frustrating.

In the light of the recent events.....

I've almost made my peace with the fact that I will probably be nicked in the upcoming few years, as well as many others trying to stay free and/or flee countries in conflict. I just hope it won't be too long and agonising.
Thanks to the miracle of the internet, I will still be alive there in a form of online profiles and my posts/rants here. Maybe retoor's dR-trained LLM will be able to mimic me well enough to trick you all I'm still out there :))

just some doom and gloom shower thoughts.. running circles in my head for years now.

If any of you play counterstrike or have friends that play counterstrike, watch out for a scam where a friend might ask you to vote for their logo/team on some bs "varsity clash whatever" site.

The thing pops up a fake steam login window and tries to phish you as far as I can tell. It's even styled as a Window window (which is fun when you're on linux like me)

I made a throw away account just to test it and I got some fun logins from Russia, though I revoked the access fast enough so that I retained control.

as far as I can tell the site only exists for a couple of days according to WHOIS and all the steam login assets are hosted on some unrelated non valve server...

This PSA is not really for the more skilled and careful people here, but I thought I'd stick it here for the possibly lurkers and less experienced users just in case.