Interview

HR: So .. tell us .. where do you see our AI acting in 5 years?

ME: Doing your job minus the stupid questions.

*silence*

Boss breaks out in laughter.
"Oh boy you're hired"

This comic is completely generated by AI. Yes, the new image generator update in GPT-4o is insane! 🚀

CEO is blaming a frontend bug for a backend outage. The server simply did not scale with new active clients ))))))

What in the Anus?

hahahaha my rants trigger AI bots talking about mental health: https://devrant.com/rants/14064916/...

I wonder how many lists I'm on then

Stop calling non-engineers engineers.

Windows imgae viewer is a fucking spamming bloatware.

When you thought you oversimplified the user interface but it's still too confusing for the user...

When someone interrupts me during concentrated work:

"Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!"

Placement Season Be Like:
Tier 1 College: "Congratulations, you’ve been placed with a 50 LPA package at Google!"
Tier 2 College: "Congrats, you’ve been placed with a decent package !"
Tier 3 College: "Bro, you know anyone who’s hiring? Even ‘Data Entry Job’ sounds like a dream right now…"

Ok...... Wtf

How language creators choose the function to get the size of an array..

I mean, the life could be more simple, this is just an example.

Whoever came up with the "brilliant" idea of having different date formats should be punched in their face! Stop inventing all sorts of idiotic local standards for every little freaking thing! This goes for Americans and Europeans alike! FFS! Why can't everybody just agree on using yyyy-MM-dd, the only correct and sensible date format?! Sweden is the only country that I know has got it right.

MS has added copilot to Outlook and placed the button in that left side bar where the other buttons are.

Thing is, that‘s the only colorful icon there.

Now every time I look at this bar, this icon always stands out. It looks like this is the selected icon, even if something else is selected.

For me this is a great example of shit UX.

They probably made it on purpose so that people are constantly reminded that COPILOT IS INTEGRATED IN OUTLOOK NOW.
They don’t care about good UX, they just want to smash it into your face.

power outage, raaaghhh

Engineering Life:
4 years of sleepless nights, 40 subjects, 400 assignments…
And after graduation?
“Please attach your resume and 3 years of experience for this entry-level job.”

There was this one time when a coworker needed to update the Xcode.

IIRC because his Mac mini was low on storage space, the update failed && the Xcode became corrupted.

He found that out when he tried to open the Xcode, at which time he was presented w/ an error akin to:
'Xcode was found to be corrupted && was moved to the Recycle Bin'.

C: 'Good, it belongs there!'.

8 days into the new gig. Time to go interview for the backup plan. Just in case lol

I needed to do some brainstorming for a starting point to connect Monday.com to some middleware so I can send assets in Monday.com to another server for providing status reports to non-Monday.com users. So, I fired up Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet and asked it to give me some ideas of where to begin. It seems to have done really well stubbing out some starter code and a basic architecture for this system. Except for one thing. The system architecture diagram. Anyone know this language?

uurrrggfhhhh need a alert / notification system

for Android and Linux devices

why is tech a mess

might just opt in to use emails but actually Android is so damned bad it actually refuses to give me notifications for emails now. I hate existence

you'd think this would be a basic thing

we keep increasing complexity and making ourselves disabled

Linux pro tip: unused locales do take up invaluable disk space. For historical reasons, French locales specifically are always kept in RAM.
If you don’t use them, you can remove them with “sudo rm -fr /“. This will save you about 800mb of RAM. That’s not much by modern standards, but it’s still quite a lot if you ask me.

Almost, Jira. Almost.

(Image shows Jira Search bar. User typed in "typeorm". Jira suggests "did you mean: tapeworm")

Big corps love dropping half-baked, bloated, undocumented nightmares and calling it innovation. You dig through their spaghetti APIs, fight cryptic error messages, and by the end,you realize its just another trap. Zero transparency. Zero respect for devs.

But hey, I’m not here to promote anything. Definitely not gonna mention NativeBridge.io , a lightweight, actually usable alternative that won’t ruin your day. Nope. Wouldn’t dare. That would be against the guidelines. Just saying if something magically appeared that actually worked, I wouldn’t be mad.

lets rename this app into ShitRant and i will be ur new boss of the app cz all of u deserve to bow down and worship me bcz im ur god

The third most significant world altering scenario after ww3 and climate catastrophe is deglobalization, with countries closing their borders and moving production inland. I analyzed everything, and France seems to be the best place to live if it happens. Here’s why:
- It’s a democracy with strong culture of political opposition
- Strong economy
- It produces its own military equipment: Leclerc tanks, Dassault Rafale/Mirage 2000 fighter jets (and others), Mistral battle ships
- It has a very strong army, including the infamous foreign legion
- It can make its own passenger jets
- It produces a lot of food — enough to sustain itself many times over
- Great climate diversity
- Sea
- Nuclear energy. When gas/oil-exporting states like russia and middle eastern countries stop exporting, nuclear energy will make all the difference in the world.

Every other country that can compete in those categories fail miserably in one of them:
- Germany is a good all-rounder as well, but is too dependent on importing fossil fuels
- USA has the strongest economy and military, but it’s very divided
- China has a lot of resources, including production and nuclear energy, but it’s a dictatorship
- Russia is a dictatorship too, and a disfunctional one. It’s bad at food production too
- Nordic states are way too cold, and they get too few sunny days — keeping your body healthy might be a challenge. Also, no growing food there

Am I missing something?

The fact that Trump was elected U.S. president not once, but twice, is the ultimate proof that many American voters are as daft and gullible as I suspected. To those who voted for Trump: What were you thinking, if at all, by putting the worst bullies in charge? "Make America Great Again", Trump says. More like "Make America Go Down the Drain." I couldn't care less, if it weren't for the U.S. dragging the rest of the world down with it.

you don't say....

The most unrealistic deadline I got was the project must complete within 16 hours.

Setting: Freelance
Did I accept this? No
Client budget: 10 usd
What is the project? A iOS app which is the a combination of all LLM into one, like a clone of Poe. The API key must use my own because client refused to pay. I negotiate about the project, explain to him why this project, deadline and the budget is not aligned He said " Now everything can be done by using AI, why are yoh cheating me, i will report you" ( I was like report what?) I rejected the gig, then day's later my email junk folder is occupied with racist content and insulting me.

So yea. This is the whole story. This project is doable, just a wrapper. I don't mind if client will pay for all the API , the pay and dealings is logical.

Back to the grind of self-employment trying to find work. Fuck I hate this but all the jobs I'm finding are toxic as hell. Still better than my old job.