When I see someone post something about a grammar nazi I think about a grandma dressed in a nazi uniform. Where grammar is a substitute for grandma. I wanted to produce this image using AI.

The challenge was to get chatgpt to produce such an image. It will refuse to produce any image with the tag "nazi". (Seriously, we pay for a company to lecture us on morals about imagery. openai stole most of their data and they want to get high and mighty? Also, a whistleblower died in connection with openai. Yeah, they are the "good" guys. lol.)

How did I get around their bullshit? Don't use the term nazi. I told it to produce an image of a grandma dressed in the world war 2 german uniform. That is it. It will happily do this. lol

So I present to you "grammar nazi":
https://devrant.molodetz.nl/grammar...

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.

Starting at CERN in 45 days :D Can't wait!!!

Python sucks

That is all

Your health is the ultimate flex

Do you prefer to pin dependencies to an exact version or a specified major, latest minor version?

If you put Web3 on your resume, I'm rejecting you without even looking at the rest of your resume.

How certain can we be, that AI Code Assistants or the companies behind them are "stealing" our proprietary code?

There is this recruiter who sent me two messages on exactly 2:35 pm on two separate days. And then today, asks for my phone number for brief talk and getting to know me.

Is this a bot, or a scammer or legit? The profile picture is a pretty girl also.

Might just block.

I get scam texts on Line, Telegram, Messages all day, but not on Linkedin so far. So this is new.

Do they forbid music at your office? They do at mine. It's always like a weird atmosphere until the loud people come in. lol. Not a sound, not a peep. If you didn't look around, it's as if people weren't there.

Seriously. It's a bad idea to have music?! I understand that from a concentration perspective, but come on. Let's make business even more boring. lol.

On the other hand, I did work at a place where they had radio playing but they never changed station. It felt like Groundhog day. lmao.

Have you been forced into a futureless role you hate?

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Scrotumborn
(stolen from reddit, but this is some funny shit!)

Here's an idea: don't proclaim you've finished a feature (apparently in a silo) to leadership and then refuse to deliver it to the code repo.

Like, I totally get it, you used a fancy LLM and it spat out something that looks reasonable at a glance, but aren't sure because your environment wasn't actually set up for local testing (ie never actually run). But still, you could commit whatever garbage was spit out and have someone look at (or, more likely, completely re-write) it, but Nah, puffery is better than delivery I guess.

Interviewer: Where do you see yourself in five years?

Candidate: Well, I checked your LinkedIn... and most employees leave in two years.

Interviewer: Uh... welcome to the team?" 😂

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

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!'.

Did anyone here work with WebAssembly? .-. Like for real-life scenarios and not just a hobby
I thought it'd be a bigger deal by now specially for SPAs and corporate web-based dashboards

but i havent seen much of it irl

The perfect LLM doesn't exis...

Old employer sends you a message on WhatsApp 4 weeks after you left asking for your help because they cannot figure out a NEW issue with one of the application servers.

What do you reply? Do you even reply?

(I’m now freelance and charge £70/hr)

I doubt.

I accidently uninstalled a browser in my android phone. Lots of bookmarks lost :-( No Google sync or anything. How to recover?

It occurs to me that the only people left on devrant are shills, bots, racists, and insane people, and I've yet to decide whether to leave or count myself into that last category.

The evolution of website navigation.

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 am so naive about LLMs. I wanted to know if I can just make one trained on text I produce. I don't even know what that means. But I read that it can take a huge effort to train one.

The more I read about this subject the less I understand. I assume some are available commercially:
https://github.com/eugeneyan/...

But I don't even know what that means. If I wanted to make an LLM to handle text interactions with NPCs what are we talking about here? Is it a multi-gigabyte file? Do I have to worry about what it was trained on? I don't want one that has infinite knowledge. I don't want it to have any frankly. I want to provide its reality as the sole creator.

The problem is I don't even know what the question is to ask it properly. I assume I need something that teaches it english, but then what comes after that?

WHO TF STILL USES SVN!!!!!

The current client I am working for has an insufferable CTO who doesn't want to use git, because of some github new privacy terms... We have tried to explain git is not github and that we can host our own git server... He is a knows it all and doesn't want to use git in 2025... although I understand there's different preferences out there... No one in the development team wants to use SVN! ... The CTO doesn't even write code.

AI is dumb and is not going to rob your work as a programmer.
Expanding on this:
https://devrant.com/rants/12459112/...

Don't know about the others, but programming and IT is mostly safe unless you're a secretary answering to mails pressing 1 keystroke at time with index finger.

Bullshit.

I’ve tried EVERYTHING. As a developer, I know exactly what instructions to give and how to explain them. I tried this stuff for years.

I abandoned the idea to give Ai a full blown workspace to vscode with copilot, even with experimental LLMS (Claude 3.5, Gpt4o, o1, as per my linked post, copilot is dumb as a rock), because it fucks up every fucking time so bad.

I tried getting an AI to build a simple project, something that has plenty of samples of code around, something that I was sure it could have been in its training dataset. A copy of Arkanoid, in HTML/CSS/JS, even reformulating the prompts over and over with different LLMs that claim to have reasoning abilities. I provided detailed feedback step by step, pointed out the errors, improvements, and problems in-depth to: o3, o1, 4o, deepseekv3+R1, and Qwen 2.5 Ultra. I even activated web search and suggested scanning GitHub repos when necessary. I gave examples of code after several failed attempts.

And guess what? Nothing. A total mess. Half the time, the game didn’t even run, and when it did, everything was wrong—bricks overlapping, barely anything working the way I asked. Even though the internet is full of similar code, and I gave it part of the solution myself when it couldn’t figure it out.

Don’t worry, AI isn’t going to steal your job—it’s just a broken toy. Fine for repetitive, simple tasks, but nothing more.

It's years that they make hyped up bold statements that the next model will revolutionize everything and it's years that I get delusional results.

It's just good at replacing some junior bovine work like mapping some classes or writing some loops with not too much variables and logics involved.

Sigh. My error was getting too comfortable using it and trusting/hoping that this ramp up in AI developement would have brought an easier life to dev.

Silly mistake.

do you have an innate instinct to respect authority or those with status?

where does it come from? how does it feel? how do you experience it?

I'm a sick to fucking death of reading 'documentation' by developers who assume you know everything they did at the time of writing and so leave out 90% of the context that would make the documentation make any sense.

Listen to me. If you are writing instructions on how to do something you have 2 options.

1. Write steps that are so detailed a person who has never touched the system could do them
2. Give enough information for a person who has never touched the system to work it out for themselves.

NOT. LET ME REPEAT MYSELF. NOT: 3. Give some half assed info that assumes you had already been working on the system and practically knew everything anyway.

If I had already been working in this area I WOULDNT NEED THE FUCKING DOCUMENTATION TO BEGIN WITH.