pies @pies@qoto.org

@jasongorman All projects become either legacy or dead. I think inexperienced devs like to work on greenfield because they think it's easier and have the audacity to think it's possible to do it perfectly :)

@tjdraper AI in most cases just means "better auto complete" and I think it's pretty useful as that. I use GitHub Copilot and it saves me some boring typing of lists etc.

@Researchbuzz @tjdraper @neurovagrant To fool the hiring AI your future employer will use into thinking that you're active in your community.

@grmpyprogrammer There's choice now, Kia, Hyundai, Polestar etc.

@aral We really can't leave good enough alone. Now we need a badge on milk containers that specifies whether the cows were fed actual food or chicken shit? I feel like when I've noticed written on McDonalds packaging for an egg McMuffin "Made with real eggs!" Like wtf would it have been possibly made with instead? What's next, "This food product does not exceed the allowed percentage of rat droppings"?

@Richard_Littler Because sexual assault on a non-spouse is a sin, whereas being sexually attacked is not a sin, so if he confesses his sins everything is A-OK. Christians, you couldn't make them up.

@lcamtuf From my experience LLMs can only do the most banal parts of my work with constant supervision. Maybe that'll change, but right now it doesn't feel like it. I don't know what job, if any, they can replace.

@frauenfelder Chilling.

@emilygorcenski it definitely did something bad in previous life.

@greegreehoist I don't think you're supposed to sleep in leggings? Tight clothing I mean. Although what do I know, I've not had any kind of pajamas in at least 30 years.

@dgar God made people in His image. Except for a tiny tweak that needs to be applied after assembly.
If only God could do genetic engineering he could have made the changes in the source code. It's probably on His Jira board right after not giving cancer to toddlers.

@lcamtuf Until we get AI assistants that can get a human on the line for us.

@lcamtuf Pocket Casts did the same thing, I guess we're going to have to pay the AI tax on every interaction in the name of companies not hiring low level support.

@fox I'm saying this because we've only had one female applicant ever (didn't work out), and we're not hostile at least as far as work environment - fully remote, flexible hours (4 hour overlap with business hours, otherwise as you like) sick leave as needed, hardware provided if needed, generous vacation days, holidays off, extra hours (i.e. on call) non mandatory and well paid for. Not sure what else we could do other than explicitly say "female or minority applicants only" which seems wrong and may be illegal.

@fox 92% of developers identify as male, according to a survey I've seen. So 20% non-male does require effort.
Non-white isn't always possible (i.e. in Poland).

@corbden Honestly, I've just been asking _why_ is that better than going straight to atheism? Is having some idea of God necessary at that point?

@corbden I've heard of many gods, usually characterized by their powers. Again, I don't think that's a useful archetype, but I've never had anything like that to deconstruct, so you may be right on it being helpful in those situations.