“blessed are the πραεῖς, for they shall inherit the earth”

πραεῖς = praeis = meek (closest English word. Not great imo) = Greek word that describes a person who has strength but restrains it. A strong man who yokes himself for the good of his community and for God. Someone capable of force, who is restrained by discipline against their own impulses.

Yeah

There’s a revelation about coding that all programmers realize relatively early in their careers: code is read far more than it’s written.

You write something once and someone is going to need to read it and understand it for years or decades.

Managers never understand this if they don’t need to touch code…

Yes, you can ship product faster. In the coding world we call these “footguns” meaning something ideally suited for removing your foot, sometimes including your entire leg.

I’ve seen AI produced code bases and they’re unmaintainable. I’m not exaggerating… AI is great at narrowly scoped problems but it can’t see the full project context at once to architect a solution like a senior engineer can. It can’t wrap its head around it fully for a large project. You end up with hundreds or thousands of files (where a dozen or less would suffice for a human made version) and insane amounts of duplication and wasteful code.

AI is amazing at making rube Goldberg machines in the shape of a code base…

What AI is phenomenal at is making unit tests and well defined integration tests for your code. Sometimes even regression tests. That is a superpower that can dramatically speed up a programmer.

I firmly believe AI is a tool, not a replacement for programmers. It doesn’t have the ability to replace them yet (not even mythos. Which is going to be more expensive to run than a senior dev who is more reliable in their output.)

Low code solutions always cause layoffs and then a mad scramble to hire devs back, often on the terms of developers. The pendulum has always swung back…

“AI hangover” feels like the right term. They went on an AI bender, shit out a massive unmaintainable code base nobody understands (and anyone who could have was laid off or fired months ago) then suddenly SHTF and they need to hire real humans to maintain it because Claude hiked their token multiplier by a factor of 9X.

I’ve heard of companies hiring interns and junior devs again to do the ditch digging work that’s suddenly too expensive for AI to do with token price increases.

What is AI for then? We already know it can’t do the work of a senior developer…

Men also don’t typically take multiple years off to have kids (as a demographic. I’m aware of exceptions even in my own personal life but the rule is typically the wife stays home, or they both work.) that put women behind their peers career wise. If people don’t take that factor into account when talking about the pay gap it’s disingenuous in my opinion.

The best way I’ve found to sum up the disadvantage boys have in school, is they’re treated like defective girls. The school environment is better suited for girls. Boys have a lot of pent up energy that needs it be burned off for them to pay attention. It was a huge issue when I was in school (and I was one of those hyperactive boys) and I can’t imagine how hard it is now with social media and tablet-babysitters…

Also a lot of universities have encouraged AI use and adoption…

If you’re talking about switching to Linux they should work using the windows executables.

If you set them up through steam (recommended) it makes a virtual filesystem you would need to add your save files and configs to, and there are guides on how to do that. You shouldn’t need to redownload anything.

Yeah you’re right, so instead of half a century maybe we should say they’ve been doing it wrong for the entire history of their company

Is that better?

I’m old enough I only had social media in highschool, and knowing how bad kids are in elementary and junior high I think having access to social media and messaging apps then would have destroyed me. The level of bullying you can pull off with Snapchat or WhatsApp groups is cruel and unusual.

But muh universal healthcare death panels!

In interested to know too. I haven’t played in a long time and I remember it was fun with mods

Oi! Do you ave a loicense to ave these thoughts?

Yeah I was struggling to find a good example to meme with it’s such a horrific situation.

This shit is so much funnier in German than English for some reason.

I also don’t speak German at all and had to translate the image to know what it said but it was funny even before I translated it

These groceries were promised to me 3000 years ago 🥰🇮🇱✡️🧃

I would have paid it and then charged him $1.50/km for the ride

If a chartered plane heading to a furry convention crashed, the entire world’s tech tree collapses in the same moment that plane crumples into the ground.

Oh hi Freagle! And yeah you’re exactly right!

If the petrodollar fails that’s exactly what’s going to happen. The rest of the world won’t miss the opportunity to hamstring the US during their moment of weakness and ensure they turn into an insular, regional isolationist power. It’ll be well deserved too…

Idk I would try this at least once to see if it’s decent.