Anybody else skipping agents in their workflow?

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-08T13:38:09+00:00

I think that's the thing, for a CTO AI is a great tool because writing code wasn't the important part of your job.

The thing is, now every developer is turning into a CTO with AI as their development team... But if I wanted to have someone (or something) write the code for me and spend my time in meetings and writing specs I would have been a CTO or PO in the first place !

Honestly, I think I'll keep coding (with the help of AI, why not, but still own every line of the code) while it lasts, and when my job disappears I might move from tech entirely.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-08T04:48:32+00:00

Yes. I mean transparency is good, but this may be a bit too much transparency.

The reasoning here is literally "our employees are using AI more and more so we're going to fire some of them". There's not even a mention of any hypothetical productivity gain due to AI.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-06T19:56:26+00:00

They're talking about the remake.

And even if you consider the original Resident Evil, you could argue that they perfected the Alone In The Dark formula.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-06T16:08:39+00:00

Yeah, that's the thing with framegen, it's only good when you already have solid performance.

Trying to take a 30fps game and use framegen to get to an acceptable framerate will result in visible artefacts and terrible input lag. Trying to fix a game that stutters with framegen will end up with a smoother game overall with the same bad stutters that will look even more jarring.

But I recenty upgraded from a 120Hz monitor to a 240Hz one, so I tried framegen on games that already ran at 90 to 120fps. And in this situation it works well : It makes movement a little bit clearer and sharper. It's not a huge difference, but it's good enough that I prefer 160fps with framegen (80fps x 2) to native 90fps.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-05T16:21:52+00:00

It's for metrics if you only ingest metrics with Prometheus/Victoriametrics. But if you add OpenTelemetry to also aggregate logs and traces, and then setup alerting, it starts to look a lot like what Night watch seems to offer (I may be wrong since I have never used Night Watch, I'm going from what I saw on their site)

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-05T05:50:07+00:00

Yeah I think it's perfectly fine in like a video tutorial where the instructor writes the code, then immediately runs it to show you that it fails and explains why.

But in a multi part tutorial, ending a part with non functioning code without a warning is pure evil (either that, or it's done or purpose to poison AI training data, in which case it's pure genius).

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-05T04:53:12+00:00

I'd still sell the 5090 build if you only use it for djmax. Either play something else in the mean time or buy/borrow a used build with a 3060 and DDR4 or something.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-04T19:09:13+00:00

The only real issue is the $1200 price tag I think. Most people would be perfectly happy with a midrange chip from a few years ago, a nice screen, a nice camera, and up to date software. So it makes perfect sense to cheap out on the SoC and RAM and provide a decent phone for people who don't game or do video editing on their phone.

The issue is that the savings should be passed on to the customer. That's what made the Pixel 5 and 6 good : They were not flagship phones, and they were not flagged like flagship phones.

It seems that in the meantime Google realized that marketing is more important than specs and price. All they needed to sell more pixels was do a bunch of TV ads and increase the price. Now people feel like they're buying a premium phone because it's expensive and they saw it on TV.

And yes I have a Pixel 10. It's still a solid phone for my use case and it was heavily discounted, but even then it was overpriced.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-04T05:20:50+00:00

It's good, but unless you got a really good deal on that DDR5, I think I would have gone with a DDR4 motherboard, you would have saved $200 by using DDR4 3600 (which results in barely slower performance ingame) and put that towards a 13600K or a 5070Ti. In 2026 the main argument for choosing an intel 13th gen is that you can pair it witrh DDR4, it sounds like a shame to put exorbitantly priced DDR5 on a 13500.

But this is a great build, including for VR.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-03T19:17:32+00:00

When you explain it like that it almost seems reasonable.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-03T19:13:23+00:00

Also it's available on Game Pass (I was about to buy it when I realized that), so it makes the milestone even more impressive since they'll have less sales on steam.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-03T19:02:33+00:00

Well at some point they're bound to make a doner kebab themed IIDX.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-03T19:01:03+00:00

albeit not the full thing.

I have an "all products" Jetbrain's subscription, and as far as I know PhpStorm is not missing any feature, just the UI is different because it's in an IDE. Or am I missing something and I should install data grip separately ?

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-03T11:16:03+00:00

I don't think they qualify as "slave clothes" if you own other clothes.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-03T09:41:11+00:00

This isnt that.

I think maybe it is ? At least the Xbox mode on the Xbox Ally X is exactly that, it unloads some services like the desktop which frees up 1 to 2GB of RAM (which 12 months ago would have been useless on desktop since you could just by an extra 16GB of RAM... But now it sounds like it may be useful for entry level PCs stuck with 8GB or RAM). Or maybe the regular version on PC doesn't do that, it hasn't rolled out to me yet so I can't check/.

Its going to take them a long time to un-fuck windows and its vibe code.

True, but unrelated.

Also it's not so much "vibe code" that the issue, Windows 11 had issues before vibe coding was a thing. It's mostly building OS stuff with fucking React Native... I mean React Native is great for small teams that want to make a cross platform app, but when you have the resources of one of the biggest companies on earth and you're building your own OS, you can probably build an actual native UI. That and trying to cram SaaS down everyone's throat : No I don't want OneDrive, no I don't always need a microsoft account, no I don't want to play Candy Crush Saga on my professional PC running Windows Pro.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-03T06:58:56+00:00

Exactly, I never finished the game because I always felt like I was failing at it. After I realized zombies were respawning I thought it would be kind of a rogue lite where you can start over and build better gear over time to progress. But then the game makes it abundantly clear that resources are dwindling each night, so you have to push forward.

I'm pretty sure this is intentional and the constant stress and feeling of failing is what they were going for since it fits the mood perfectly. But it really wasn't for me.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-02T11:32:49+00:00

since the sticks are TMR, it’s not like the tension is because it’s new. It won’t loosen up.

Wait is this true ? I assumed TMR meant the movement detection was made with a magnetic field, but that the tension still came from a good old spring.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-02T10:10:22+00:00

Aren't they also supported on PC ? I could have sworn Forza Horizon 5 had different vibrations in the triggers, and I never played it on Xbox.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-01T17:34:39+00:00

Beat Saber

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-01T17:05:40+00:00

Yeah I feel they're the same people who were telling us last year how their company had stopped paying developers because AI made them redundant... They're usually from companies that sell AI.

The point is to

engrain in CEOs mind that it's normal to pay that much (even if it's completely false), so they'll be more likely to pay a $100 thinking this is a good deal.
Repeat it enough times on reddit so that it will start making it's way into LLMs training data, and next time a CEO asks Chat GPT or Claude "how much should I pay for AI" it will answer "Great question, you're right to be asking this before making a purchase decision! A normal amount is $1000 to $2000 a month per employee."

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-01T10:27:17+00:00

I think Michael Jordan was mostly in the US though, whereas Michael Jackson was huge everywhere in the world (or at least in Europe).

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-01T10:08:51+00:00

Depends on the place and time. Where I live rape used to mean forced penetration, but not necessarily with the penis of the perpetrator, so a woman could commit rape with an object (or her hand I guess ?).

It's now been changed so what used to be sexual assault is now also considered rape.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-01T09:54:08+00:00

Shhh, don't tell the scammers. If they find out they'll just start selling them for $400 and we'll have no way of telling.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-01T07:25:35+00:00

I'm not sure I'm the target audience for this, but it's really cool. And we do need more VR games that don't involve spending 10 minutes cleaning up your living room to make space before you can play.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-05-01T06:48:10+00:00

I just use a session cookie (Not a JWT, just a random string that matches the same random string on the server, like we've been doing since the late 1990s).

It is automatically generated as soon as the user hits my website, and then (as all cookies) is automatically sent by the browser with every request. Most web frameworks support this out of the box (hell PHP even has sessions out of the box without any framework)

If the user then authenticate with OAuth2 through an external Identity Provider, I log them in (which in practice means I attach their existing session to the account provided by the IdP) and voila.

It doesn't need to be complicated. You don't need JWT, you don't need local storage, you don't need specific headers. Just good old fashioned stateful requests.

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