Tester: How is $feature supposed to work?
PM: How did $rival_company do it in their $rival_game? Check it there - that's how it's supposed to work.

...One of the greatest killers of any joy in gamedev is when you hear people want to blatantly rip off someone else's design.

Shopping for fridge with sister in law.

"Yeah that one is nice but it doesn't have an app"

"Why do you need an app for your fridge"

"I don't know, but this other fridge has an app, so I think if it doesn't have an app it's not that good"

"But it's very energy-efficient, silent and spacious. The one with the app is the same size, has a worse energy rating, is noisier and is more expensive as well"

"Yeah I know but if there's no extra features that's kind of boring"

"You are everything that's wrong with modern consumers"

Ads are intentionally produced litter.

I'm rewriting this horrendous piece of software that's like, real ugly, I mean, seriously ugly. A non stop mess of global variables and aliases and logical tantrums and fuck I know what else...

That's until today.

Today, after a ton of time spent clenching 2k LOC of ASS into readable 1.2k LOC, all tests passing, and passing faster if I may...

Then came a horrifying realization...

It downed on me, harder than a naked superman for a young Louis Lane

Tha maybe, just maybe, if them codes 's só shitty then probably so is them tests

So I tried deleting a obviously important conditional and to my dismay... oh boy, tests kept passing

...

DevRant is slow today.

I came in like a laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagging baaaaaaaaaaall, I never hit so haaaaaard in loooooooooove

lmao.

Resigned without any offer in hand. I feel a bit relieved that I need to deal with my company's bad culture for next 90 days only, but also feeling panicked due to market situation. Hope it goes all well ❤️‍🩹

So tomorrow is my last day of my 9 year long commitment to this company.

It was hell of a fun ride! I told myself ~5 years ago that this is the last company I will be working for. And I stand by it. I'm starting [continuing?] my own thing srarting next week.

I wish you all to find an employer [and be employed by] as amazing as I had [technically still have]. There's really nothing else a technitian can ask/wish for :)

Just, non-dev-people. Do I need to say more?

Bossmang wrote a cursor prompt to pull tickets, their SLoC counts, and their average time to completion per dev, then praised or chastised accordingly.

You guessed it: no thought to complexity, code bloat, or scope creep. Just SLoC/day, days/ticket.

What won the statistics award is being assigned lots of small tickets /
tickets without scope creep, committing branches that don’t get merged, writing verbose spaghetti, using AI to write/rewrite large swaths of code, and simply moving large files.

Great job, dude! 💯🎉

Sold my first ever license. :) Months of work paid out.

Burned out but trapped at work for next 4-6 weeks - need survival tips

I'm 31y/o software dev and I'm completely fried and need advice on how to hang on until I can quit.

After 5 months job hunting, I landed a role that turned into a nightmare. 6 months of being bounced between different teams/scopes/projects with impossible deadlines and covering for incompetent managers/colleagues has left me burned out. Problem is, I'm finalizing a mortgage and can't quit or take sick leave without messing up income verification stage. Need to survive 4-6 more weeks.

Work is toxic and unpredictable - not enough resources given, blaming, shifting priorities, undefined tasks, endless meetings. Fake sense of urgency. Never feeling a sense of completion - there is always something extra that comes up. Documenting everything to have paper trail in case shit hits the fan, but honestly it feels like I'm at war daily and it's exhausting. I'm weeks behind on everything.

I have ADHD and my usual meds (18mg Concerta/10-20mg Lisdexamphetamine of Adixemin brand) aren't working anymore. Im able to fall asleep only after taking 0.2-0.3mg of Xanax or smoking some THC/CBD flowers. Constant brain fog, shot memory, never feel rested. Maybe 2-3 productive hours max daily before I become useless - either depressed or too wired and too anxious to function.

Already tried bunch of supplements (all possible forms magnesium, vitamin D, fish oil, my supplements drawer has like 60 different bottles), cleaned up diet, cut dairy/nicotine/alcohol/caffeine, taking strategic vacation days here and there in beginning or ending of a week.

I also suspected some allergies, tried out quercetine + vitamin c + all possible anti allergy meds - didnt help. I even suspected inflammation - tried curcumin and all other stuff - useless.

Anyone dealt with extreme burnout while trapped in a job? How do you function when your tank is empty but quitting isn't an option?

Only thing that helps is that I work fully remotely. Exercise would help but I cant force myself to do it.

Once the mortgage closes, I'm gone. Get a less stressful job lined up. Just need to survive until then without falling apart completely.

client generated our goals and guidelines with Claude
Had a 2 hour meeting trying to understand what they want from us
Now we're using ChatGPT analysing the meeting's transcript to explain to us what the client wants from us

STOP USING AI IN HUMAN-HUMAN COMMUNICATIONS FFS

Just got fired. No money on the side coz my bitch wife screams on me if I dont spend all the money. 50k to pay next year.

Guess I'm going homeless

Job-hunting feels like playing Age of Empires; the cities are guarded by the recruiters.

Rogan? Wololoo.

My scripts are made to be stupid-proof. Turns out I should have written them extra-stupid-proof.

Lost all the lead engineers in my org. Now I'm the most senior.

God help us all.

The symbol for things to avoid in biology: ☣️
The symbol for things to avoid in physics: ☢️
The symbol for things to avoid in IT: ✨

The next pirate bay is just "the internet without stupid age verification", I'm calling it now.

I fully expect to be roasted here, but I, for one, welcome our new vibe coding AI overlords.

I've never been good at coding for one major reason: I cannot commit to memory or manage to effectively use enormous sets of commands, principles, techniques, frameworks, etc., that are often required for this work. I've always been a huge source of frustration for team members who have that innate ability, in that I slow them down, make lots of mistakes, and generally don't know what I'm doing in the context of everything available to me to use. Especially in comparison to them. The only good ability I seem to have is picking through code others wrote, updating it, debugging it, and generally comparing it to best practices to either ask them to fix it or figure out a way to get it done myself. But it takes me a long time, and it's super frustrating.

"Vibe coding" has been world-changing for me in that regard. I know. It's not "pure coding". I know. It's "stealing our jobs". I know. "It's making us all dumb and dependent".

I don't care. I'm trading that for FINALLY being able to realize the vision of all the projects my right brain WANTED to do for so long, but that I never tried because I knew my limited left brain couldn't manage it. I knew the UI and the requirements, but I just couldn't get started. Or, if I got started, I couldn't figure out what to do next. I knew how to explain it, but it would take me many more hours than necessary to write the first working class and functions.

I'm in this to make money. I'll leave the "coding poetry" to the purists. I need an MVP, then a v1, then a v10+ as soon as I can possibly get them done, so then I can get the software to market before some other competitor.

If that makes me some kind of terrible person or shit coder who's "ruining everything" (really?), so be it. I'm due to retire in the next 5-7 years. If I can make that happen earlier with more sold software, all the better.

been noticing a pattern with my brain issues that now when I'm trying to manually critically think people keep insulting me and dismissing me by saying I'm overthinking...

maybe that's why nobody critically thinks anymore. just gets hammered out as "yeah nobody wants to hear that"

well I'm sorry I can't have Internet thoughts inside my own head due to the brain damage. it helps me to talk it out. annoying. and you could contribute to the discussion by actually contributing. who are you to say I don't want to be having this thinking?

I have spent most of my career in dev teams no larger than 7 people. I am soon joining a company where dev teams are around 50. Any tips or unspoken rules?

My board game based on mandavoshka is almost done and if you like to test it via Testflight, please do.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/...

I know, a board game isn’t exactly very exciting but I wanted to do this for ages.

It‘s meant to be played on a tablet with up to four players sitting around the device.
So the controls are rotated to the side of the current player.

You can also select the computer to play for a player, but it doesn’t play very well.

The app icon and the background images are generated by chatgpt because I‘m shit at designing.
It was a real pain in the butt to make chatgpt generate repeatable (tiling) textures.

The app will be free but I added in app purchase to unlock the color picker for each player. It will be the cheapest price of 0.29 €.
I‘m doing it to get experience with iap, not to make money.
You can test the iap for free during the Testflight phase.

This place became a botRant?

Why does everything require an account these days?
I just wanted to try out a simple to-do list app. Next thing I know, it's asking for my email, phone number, and the name of my first pet. I'm not buying a house — I just want to tick off "buy milk."
Whatever happened to lightweight, no-signup tools? Devs, bring back simplicity please.
/end rant

There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who know binary, those who don’t, and those who didn't expect this joke to be in ternary.

So we can't have the testers having slack because slack cost money

Corporate bullcrap I swear

There is never a valid reason for any UI component to respond to touch or click events until it has been visible for at least 500ms.

If AI doesn’t solve your problem, the answer is always just more AI. Thus, AI is the new XML.

I was replaced by AI.

Because I couldn’t be replaced directly, e.g. by using AI to do my job, the job description itself was changed as the business pivoted.

We used to be a software development company. Now, we’re an online AI school. The thing about AI schools is that you can monetize unfinished prototypes — the only thing AI is good at — and the process of making them.

I wasn’t strictly “replaced” — they just found a small-scale way to not need engineers at all.

Well, it’s time to make my own startup!

Internet freedom is decapitated.
I miss the old internet so much, it was anarchy and today is a corporate globalist blob of control and censorship.
I feel it's lost and there's no alternative anymore, at least not yet.