A cautionary tale, dear devRanters:

"My husband was laid off by Microsoft after 25 years — by algorithm. His last day is his birthday."

https://reddit.com/r/microsoft/...

Enjoy life outside of work

I just had the gayest dream. I was having a nap with a dude similar to Ross and Joey on Friends. Then the guy started removing his shorts. I quickly stood up and left. I'm not sure if it had something to do with me experimenting with different AI Assistants on VSCode like Copilot, Cline and Gemini.

Running your own mail server is a lost art

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

Anyone here leading a team? What's your rule on using AI as a coding assistant? I just read this article:
https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-and-learning
new jr devs are shipping codes faster but at a cost (test cases, quality control, etc).

I got cooked by Siri when I told it "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, start". 🤬

Just had a dream: a python but the head is a puppy and covered in puppy fur. I don't know what that means. You guys had weird dreams lately?

So... the US Social Security numbers are type string or something?

Panadol, where have you been all my life?

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