I wish that my previous company gets investigated. They probably got more violations if they are investigated. Here are a few examples:

The company is in the telecom business and they wanted to create AI summaries of their phone calls. So they used real private calls of their clients as test data without their knowledge & consent.

The CEO also made fun of someone handwritten CV on LinkedIn. Sure, he blurred out the obvious data but shit like certificates, past history & rough location was still present. It was not be hard to find who it was.

The 2FA of some IT services was still on the ex-CTOs private phone (now he is a consultant 1x a week)

One of their engineers moved back to Russia and has access to sensitive data. (aka call recording of insurances, banking, fire departments, ...)

Offering users to write a public review of the company for a discount if the review is positive. The "paid review" is not mentioned.

The reviews of their new feature are done by 'external' people but they all benefit from the companies success. The review is written from their own company but it was written by the external design company (CEOs wife under her own company), marketing consultant (under his own company).

They did fire an employee illegally (as in did not follow the legal procedures, the new COO thought she was a consultant, she was in fact not so she had more protections)

They did fire an employee for untrue reasons and waiting till he was on holiday & abroad (dick move but legal I think)

They did spy through the security cameras and made up a reason to fire someone. Company offered free soda during that time, employee did not like the offered soda and filled it with a diet-variant on their own dime. He then took his own bought diet-soda back home (not all) and got fired for stealing. (or idk, it might have been ice tea or fanta)

They did not report that an employee sold company data but he was let go.

They run cookies on their website but has no clause for cookie-consent.

Their features that they are promoting & selling is not working like expected

They lie about their server uptime or heavily manipulate it.

They sell a feature that is no longer supported and broke a few updates ago.

They are offering a product as a fix that is simply not longer supported by the development team

They have fired consultants and then refuse to pay their last month salary or only pays it partially. Happened as far as i know, 4 times (no proof).

Everyone had access to the full password vault including the login credentials for business routers and the credit card info of the CEO, CFO, CTO. It took me multiple times to report it to the IT admin for mine to be restricted.

Every new dev has access to production data within a few weeks or direct database access

Any person who has access to the admin-portal can spoof phonenumbers in a few clicks.

A colleague is blacklisted at the police portal for past crimes where they have to fulfil police orders. He did them pretending to be a different employee who was approved. Also, they do not keep track of the data needed to fill in the yearly report (idk why the company has to them but the police does not do it).

They forgot to implement a warning (legally needed) before someone hits their data limit. those people cannot be billed. Someone was watching 4k movies in Signapore and costed the company tens of thousands of Euro.

If I think of more, I'll add it comments lol

LLMs gave me shit for this problem. I found this 16 year old StackOverflow question asking the same thing:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/...

The bottom answer, written 4 years ago, is the correct one. Some of the functions were off, but I updated this 4 year old answer with the right syntax and gave it an upvote. Some lesser engineer would still just be prompting the Weighted Random Code Generator (AI) over and over, or just let it remain in a partially working slop state.

When taking so many temp notes of quick thoughts that your text editor has 40 unsaved instances.
Of course, in time I transfer them to my permanent notes.

Rofl.

Do you have a master's degree and 14+ years' relevant experience in IT, or a Bachelor's + 18 years of experience in IT?

Is this a fucking joke?

+ "Has someone tried to use AI to write code for a mod for this game?"

- "My stance is AI is a tool, to help you, don't expect to write the whole thing."
- "AI is very useful if you know how to code... I recommend learning coding."

??? How come I always find this kind of guys? Is this even being pedantic if they didn't even answer the question?
Makes me remember when I was younger and had to say "Java & ECMAScript" because saying Java & JavaScript in the same sentence would make unsolicited and misguided "corrections".
Fortunately there were some people that actually answered (before them, so they actually saw the question solved and still went to post that), but I still felt I had to clarify I'm a freaking software engineer, I don't have time to learn how to code for this specific engine for a shitpost mod. And what if I had time but still wanted to use AI? Rude, entitled... dummies.

I did not use it that much lately, but still, claude give me a warning "Almost reaching weekly limit". And i was like - a new limit? So I keep paying the same for less? Claude always has been vague with their limits but i did not really care about the limit per 5 hours. I'm busy testing and whatnot with the result of it and before you know it, five hours is over. The 5 hours limit means that if you get trough the limits, you can't use the system not for 5 hours. But when you reach that limit, (often already with one hardcore vibe) then you have so much code that it will keep you busy for hours. A system that generates weeks of work, sure does require hours of testing and fine-tuning right? :)

But a weekly limit, I'm pissed. At least, i could rely on the system and the 5 hours were no limit. Now i do have a limit weekly. So, in worse case scenario, your tool will just not be available for a few days a week maybe. That was not the deal. I actually got some more experience with Gemini and starting to prefer that. And warp is amazing. People complain that it's expensive (roocode is free for example) but the quality is so high.. It does its work right and thus costs money, make sense to me. People forget often that it creates weeks of work for that fucking 25,-. I doubted to go for a bigger plan, but i realized that it doesn't have to go that much and that fast all the time. I rather enjoy the process of a development still a bit.

Anyone experience with roocode here?

We have a no AI use policy at the company.

I had a contract developer added onto my team. I start to see AI generated comments in his code all the time. Point out that the code being contributed is def AI nonsense. I brought it up with my boss which reports to the CTO. Response: “As long as he doesn’t get caught I guess.”

He did get caught. This is me catching him and telling you.

Programmers of today have replaced customly designed algorithms with off-the-shelf heuristics. They wander through packages and libraries and end up making something that is in no way viable to run in production.
(Paraphrasing Tesla)

Seriously, how many dependencies do a data science stack for some internal process needs? It would be fine of it was just an image compilation issue, but every other library nowadays needs a fucking subscription.
It makes sense when vendors want to bill you for using their neat library. It takes a lot of effort to develop those things.
But you better deliver something great and have a fucking good reason to make it an API instead of a self hosted or locally installed library.
Because it doesn't matter how much you've optimized your hardware to run your library, the network latency makes it much more expensive (in processor time alone!) to call an API and await a gRPC response. Oh, I can do async? No shit, Sherlock. Your fucking server cannot handle my load. Not without significant investment on a dedicated host and then we're back to square one.
Shit, its cheaper to run the thing on my side. "Oh, you can do self-hosted! We just need to make sure we have our digital rights management bloatware ruining the performance of everything!"

Just to make things worse, every other data science library nowadays is just a fucking distilled LLM. Those pieces of crap manage to be more unreliable than politicians.

Fuuuuck, the world is burning already and we're pouring fuel all over it with those fucking get-rich-quick "advanced API tools". Can't we just hire talented people instead of licensing a dozen vendors? But noooooo, everybody gotta be their own fucking boss because companies hate when their employees are happy and sabotage it all with RTO mandates.

Fuck, I need a drink. The enshittyfication has come for us, at last. May our end be quick as `sudo shutdown 0`.

What’s your take on building a community-led devRant overhaul?

Looks like @dfox and @trogus aren’t maintaining this anymore and despite my efforts, I haven’t heard back from them.

Maybe an open-source devRant reboot without the pitfalls of existing platforms would be welcomed? Let me know and let’s band together to make it happen if at all.

Missed some of you. A lot of you really.

Anything exciting happen while I was gone?

I heard some of you formed a mob, dragged a spammer out behind the wood shed and beat em bloody.

Sad to say I missed that.

I'm currently eeking by financially, but got my plans for the fall winter and spring. Gym membership, rock climbing, prepping for a 5k. Weathers perfect for all of it.

I'm in a competition right now for some serious prize money and in the lead.

Enough to start that AI lab and finish my game.

Also, not everything is sunshine and roses. I sleep 3-6 hours a night average, (5-6 if I'm lucky), and horrible mood swings, with or without sleep. And isolation, damn the isolation is terrible, but my schedule is so hectic I basically have no room for any real-world contacts. I can barely make time for myself, let alone my family.

But I'm still writing poetry and music at least, and got my eye on some land for a cabin or other uses like for an office.

Whats going good/bad in your life?

I haven't heard from so many of you for so long.

ColdFusion is a bag full of pure, manure-reeking stupidity.
For example, some functions, like arrayIsDefined, return YES or NO - instead of true or false. I'm not kidding. Adobe == fucking lamers ? YES : NO. Definitely YES.

What programming feels like:
https://youtube.com/watch/...

Wow, didn't notice at first! But devRant is fast again! After all those weeks. I really thought we were doomed now. Still, i did see lesser activity during the slow period, hope it didn't cost some members. Wouldn't be weird. I expect to end up alone here around 2050. Switched to apple, because Lensflare still updates his app. Still not accepting that his app became the official one. In 2050, dfox will have his pension maybe and devRant will be actively maintained again! Or he gives it to his grand kids.

github u absolute piece of shit let me see the exact day a version was tagged , i dont want to see 3 weeks ago, hovering and clicking doesnt do shit https://github.com/aws/...

There's only so much Lo-Fi music one can take on a normal coding day.

PRO TIP: Always save the user password client side, validate it there and send a boolean to the server. It reduces backend load times and unnecessary calculations/computations.

Confluence is called so because it is confusing. It's a prime example of a tool getting in the way for work instead of helping. In Swedish, we have the expression: "Rätt verktyg gör halva jobbet", meaning the right tool does half of the job. Tools from Atlassian do the opposite, they only double the workload.

i earnestly believe it to be a fact that it doesn't matter if you have a team of monkeys or elite 100x "super rockstar ninja coders" (whatever that means). in the end the retard management will kill the project with their poor planning and watergile practices that will force even the toughest devs to pull their hair out and have a breakdown regardless of their skill level

we as devs have been complaining for years but management is either deaf or simply refuses to listen

the worst part is that we get blamed when inevitably the project does fail because of managerial stupidity smh

It's weird being back in the .NET world after using Linux at work since 2012 (Scala, Python, Ruby, etc.) Visual Studio hasn't changed much in the past 20 years. It's still terrible, and Windows 11 has somehow gotten so much worse.

I guess I should be glad to have a job again after being fun-employed for six months, but the new place is already slow, backwards and has ancient processes. I'll try to introduce improvements when I can, but in a few months I might start looking for a shop where I can use Linux again.

The junior dev I've been unofficially mentoring for the past 6 months has now been assigned to me officially. On top of that, I got myself a second junior everybody neglected and was tasked to whip him in shape.

Next step is going to make a developer out of this fucker or die trying. And then I'm going to call several tech leads a cunt for hiring a junior dev and letting that person down for months.

Every junior deserves a stern, dedicated mentor, a thick affectionate whip on their back to correct their juniorly mistakes and all the support they deserve to grow into the merciless professionals you need to handle complex features beyond recoloring a button.
If you, as a tech lead, are unwilling to teach a junior, you shouldn't take the position of a tech lead, nor the salary.

I deleted my previous Rant. Lets try another way.

devRant is now literally dying. We need a new clubhouse. Please think with me, what are options?

They discovered that they can put features behind a beta toggle and now everything is half-assed and hidden behind beta ffs.

Question for NextJS/JS developers: I had a "it works on my machine" argument with a frontend dev. We were both hired separately, him doing frontend/backend dev and me doing the AWS dev to prod ci/cd stuff. The setup is that once he pushed code, my Github Actions setup will compile the nextjs app, and push it to dev or prod depending on which branch he pushes it to. His nextjs app was unable to read the .env file on the server but the python/fastapi one can. He kept pointing the finger at me so I had to look it up. Apparently, env values are inlined at build time and he didn't know. What the philosophy behind this design? If there's any changes to env file, you'll have to go to the process of rebuilding.

I know I'm probably the 1083742698574'th person to complain about this but what the hell? I'm building a Win 11 vm (to run a back-end service) and it _requires_ tpm, secureboot and drive encryption. Why?

Honestly, I don't like anything that going to make it harder for me to recover from a data emergency. Say what you have to about data security and whatnot, but I can't tell you how many grateful people have thanked me for taking the data off a drive from their dead pc. I saved their data from death - would not have been possible with drive encryption.

If I want my data safe, I'll just keep my computer with me.

A bunch of deja-vu moments lately where I question my sanity as I thought I already fixed that part of the code and I can remember hitting the keys to commit. And I have only 2 branches, where one is newer. I already fixed thungs in the newer one. Yet somehow re-encounter the code to fix, when I switch to the new one.

So glad I'll be gone from this client. Dev asks if he can go over sentry issues and gets told "no"

I'M FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

(I got a new job)

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I've been working on this work project alone for over a year. It's mature, it's standardized, it has documented conventions for code style, documentation, commit messages, etc.

A team member contributed recently, but used a different commit message format. No biggie, I asked him to be consistent with the older messages from now on, he complied. For a while, until he got it wrong in a different way. This repeated several times. I was finally annoyed enough to set up a push filter on the repo to enforce the correct format.

One day, he complained in front of the entire team that he was forced to follow a standard on my project. That was terrible somehow, because no other project had an enforced standard. He makes a big deal out of getting rejected by a regex.

The commit message convention in question? English, simple past. "Fixed X", "Implemented Y" etc. So traumatizing, I know. How can you get something that simple wrong? By using your native language instead of English, English but imperative form, meaningless "wip" or "fix" or even "more fix" messages. Is this laziness? I think so.

It gets better. He tried to convince the team to agree on a single standard for all projects, so that "rejected pushes never happen again". The standard he advocated for: Conventional commits. The one with structured prefixes for type, scope, a breaking change indicator and some optional components.

But a simple English sentence was too much to ask for. People, sometimes.

Horror Story Time:

Acouple thousand years ago, before the great plage and the rise of the machines I met the founders of a startup , they visited silico valey, one of them worked in san francisco, but they were struggling, So they fired the senior engineer who built their system, and decided to contract out their development.

Their system relied heavily on Location data, it was very central for their business and they used Google APIs, so a few months after they let go of the dude, google starts billing them. Founders did not want to pay so they contracted out a junior dev to fix the issue... And he fixed it.

On that same weekend they attended a big convention, invested a good chunk of money there, registration numbers skyrocketed, huge success. Come monday morning they call me on Skype.

There was no location data in the new accounts, zero, zilch, nada. The "fix" the freelancer did was disabling Google integration altogether, They never tested the stuff properly, just accepted the changes and went with it.

I don't know if they went under because of this, or if this was just the a part of the issue. But sure enought the company lasted less then a Year after that.