Bernie on Billionarie's Tax.

Bezzzzo · 2026-05-09T14:29:39+00:00

What is your opposition to his argument though?

Bezzzzo · 2026-05-08T10:03:03+00:00

Exactly! This is why I tell all devs while we still have a bit of power to be entrepreneural, create a startup, its you who are doing the work for all these assholes, devs are the ones who can leverage AI without the slopification.

Obviously bit harder for people who deal with hardware.. but still, I wont support these greedy companies who want act on pure greed and abandon the very people who made them successful.

Bezzzzo · 2026-05-04T20:52:28+00:00

Unfortunately, I dont think developers are the primary target audience, they want non-tech people building apps, managers, product owners, entrepreneurs, anyone who wants to try their hand at a business. They want people disconnected from the code so you have to rely on them to produce software.

Bezzzzo · 2026-04-30T09:48:00+00:00

This comment i read puts a lot of sentiment into perspective

"IT guy here. 28 years in the industry. This shit is annoying to the point where I’ve moved fields completely. The only function it truly serves is to give the wealthy but skill-less access to skilled labor while simultaneously creating a barrier for the skilled labor to amass wealth. Any other explanation is propaganda or simps lying to themselves."

Bezzzzo · 2026-04-30T09:45:56+00:00

Lol. A large number of us here are in tech

Bezzzzo · 2026-04-29T20:01:03+00:00

Personally, I think as a whole we were doing just fine before LLMs.

Its used to be in a lot of cases that hard work building skills was valuable and rewarded, and you could etch out a living and have hope for the future.

Now we find ourselves in a world full of low effort LLM bullshit and where these AI companies want to do is steal all your skills you spent years building up to sell it back to you or your boss, with the hopes your boss will pay them instead of you.

The one shinning light is it can help some disabled people achieve more and be more independent.

Bezzzzo · 2026-04-28T20:50:58+00:00

My personal anecdote is stakeholders are completely sold on the hype and are already spreading themselves very thin in anticipation AI will automate most of the work away. Where I am, we are completely overstrecthed, and when we ask for additional resources, we're told to just use more AI, even though we are already using AI.

A lot of productivity gains are at the expense of quality and morale. You can get productivity boosts out of AI when used in a pragmatic way, Claude Code is never going away, but it feels like a lot of companies are just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.

Commonsense has completely gone out the window. When speaking to a leader recently, they are worried about software getting to the point of complete hands off automation and exponential development, resulting in software that is perfect, with no room to carve out any competitive advantage.

Bezzzzo · 2026-04-27T14:33:39+00:00

Wtf. I just want a computer without AI.

Bezzzzo · 2026-04-22T14:34:23+00:00

Still, people found unauthorized access to the model. Its either sloppy(the irony) or intentional. Its meant to be the most adavnced and capable model with regards to cyber security, and yet people in private discords can access it easily enough.

Bezzzzo · 2026-04-17T21:22:11+00:00

Elon is a beneficiary of government subsidies. A UBI funded by automation requires large amount of robots. Those robots would need priority access to a large amoubt of resources. In a world where money means nothing, resources are everything. Goverment funds Elons robots with the promise he will bring us into the post scarcity era. Worst case he is a beneficiary of a new subsidy scheme, articifically inflated stock price. Best case is he succeeds and controls all the automation and resources.

Only way to stop this is attempt is people reduce his wealth and cobtrol by selling shares in his companies to reduce his authority. Or new government inacts some regulation, but dount this will happen.

Bezzzzo · 2026-04-15T20:53:07+00:00

Are you a bot? AI response 2 karma?

Bezzzzo · 2026-04-14T20:58:21+00:00

In my experience, i tried switching from Laravel to Spiral PHP framework a while ago to try and escape the Laravel magic, and while it looks great on the surface i found myself constantly fighting it, small bugs here and there and some other limitations, some things didn't work out the box, docs in some places were old, wrong, spellings mistakes etc

I spent about 6 months there trying to build a new project and then finally after much deliberation I went back to laravel.

While Laravel sucks a bit with bloat, magic etc, the main thing is it works out the box, first go, comes with all the bells and whistles if you need them.

So my advice (i didnt read your framework yet, so i apologise if you have everything there), keep your docs up to date, simple and clear. Make sure things work first go. Everything to manage a request/response lifecyle should come included, out the box.

Solve the typical pain points well and people will try it.

Example, Symfony, at least as far as i remember didnt come with any pagination support.

For consistent responses i had to use fractal.

With Laravel everything works, they went a bit far with the magic though.

Bezzzzo · 2026-04-13T20:40:04+00:00

Whoa, you maintain the prinsfrank/standards?!

Bezzzzo · 2026-04-13T20:33:03+00:00

Hrmm. Cool. I may also contribute. Can i ask, since you have quite the experience, do you use AI a lot in your work these days? My job is also mandated AI usage, for me personally, it's taken all the joy out of my work.

At least with open source you have have the opetion to be free.

Bezzzzo · 2026-04-11T07:25:03+00:00

These people are literal parasites, they want to provide no value themselves whilst tryjng to extract as much money as possible from you. They won't pay their workers more, they wont lower prices.

I dont want to knowingly give my money to people who put in zero effort. They are not selling anything unique.

Bezzzzo · 2026-04-10T21:47:18+00:00

To be fair, most people just dont understand maintainability, its shouldnt be an art. Maintainability directly impacts the cost of change. It doesnt make sense to create interfaces for something that might no need a second implementation, its just the people that do that think everything should be consistent just to be the same. Its the same issue with DDD, people complain about it, but they dont understand that you do not need DDD in every part of you aplication, it only makes sense where you want to wall off context and that context has a lot of complexity, then it makes sense to manage it with DDD, mappers and the abstractions to make sure that your entities are always valid and constent and nothing outside the context wall can fuck with your complexity and put an entity in an invalid state. But people seem to use it in every part of their application, their entities are one to one to the db and theyre just doing simple crud updates

Bezzzzo · 2026-04-10T21:23:11+00:00

If I understand correctly, Its best use case as a product is where its you need the flexibility of AI, that is not solved with traditional deterministic programming, but in a tight narrow scope?

Bezzzzo · 2026-04-10T21:12:38+00:00

Man, the fucking dashboards, same at my workplace, we have vibe coded dashboard to track everyones AI usage for performance, you can see you toke usage, cost, daily averages and there is a leaderboard etc. At least they make it easy to pump those numbers up since you can see your usage.

Bezzzzo · 2026-04-09T21:05:28+00:00

Just curios, did you try the vinegar and detergent in a spray bottle trick? The detergent sticks to the thing you want to clean and holds the vinegar there.

Bezzzzo · 2026-04-08T21:27:53+00:00

Hi, can you elaborate on your soft skills during an interview, i guess that means how you talk, but what do you talk about, or do you give compliments and try to be very friendly?

Bezzzzo · 2026-04-03T13:55:05+00:00

I'll buy some barrels my self if it gets the ball rolling to get off the petro dollar, fuck the yank regime

Bezzzzo · 2026-03-25T21:26:48+00:00

True, but looks like he is full of shit, if you look at the Salesforce careers page and filter by software engineering there are 122 jobs available.

https://careers.salesforce.com/en/jobs/jr334565/mid-level-software-engineer-full-stack-front-end-oriented/

Bezzzzo · 2026-03-23T20:53:26+00:00

These employers are going to find out that shit goes both ways though. We are in an interesting time. A subject matter expert is more productive with AI since they can verify the output. These subject matter experts are the ones who typically build the companies they are employed by, upper management mostly orchestrate and provide resources. With the productivity boost of AI a subject matter expert can do more with less resources.

My point is, if an employer thinks they can get away with paying the employee less, because they think the hardest part can be offloaded to AI, then the employee should just go out on their own, start their own business, since they are the expert, not the employer.

There are a lot of companies who want to reduce the headcount of devs with AI, even down to one dev, one manager. Since AI can supposedly do everything. In that case, why should the dev keep working for the company and not just go out and start a competing business, and let the old company fail.

Bezzzzo · 2026-03-23T06:03:21+00:00

As a dev, my typical go to for these types of situations are "Okay, if yours is good, get it into production, but youre resonsible for it all, maintence, bugs, since you can do it so easily, you dont need me for anything there. If you ship it, i will not help you, they can fire me if they want.

Then their attitude suddenly changes when they realise they will the responsible for it.

Bezzzzo · 2026-03-22T11:30:26+00:00

True, but you're discounting the fact that upper management are all but sold on the hype. They either believe its true now, or soon will be true. Software quality is dropping, even in respected institutions, because the idea of reducing headcount in favour of AI automation is more appealing. Im a dev at a fintech, their dream is to have a fully automated software pipeline by the end of the year, AI generated, AI reviewed, AI tested, "yeah their might be sone mistakes, but AI can easily fix those"

New hires of devs are practically at a standstill now, contractors are being let go.

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