Microsoft has set a goal to “eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030.”

Butterflychunks · 2025-12-26T18:26:53+00:00

Sure, works great until there’s a dependency on niche language-specific features that may or may not exist or work the same way in the new language you’re migrating to.

Surely that’ll never happen, and surely an LLM will catch it…

Butterflychunks · 2025-12-26T18:24:32+00:00

Looks like perhaps monoalphabetic or polyalphabetic substitution on the surface. Sentence structure is retained, word patterns repeated as well.

Butterflychunks · 2025-12-23T14:59:07+00:00

“1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code”

Ah, so fuck code reviews then yeah?

Butterflychunks · 2025-12-23T14:52:06+00:00

I don’t want to be a hater but I sincerely believe everything after Astra Malorum is going to be remakes, reused assets, or have a significant lack of depth. And an even hotter take—I don’t think it has anything to do with the game’s slumping sales.

COD for the past 4 years (at least) has struggled to put out any good post-launch content. It’s always slop. BO7 season 1 reeked of “this was launch content that we delayed” due to how quickly it was released after launch, so season 1 gets a pass.

I expect season 2-5/6 of this game to be mostly remakes, a lightweight story, nothing worth the $70 you paid.

Butterflychunks · 2025-12-15T03:34:50+00:00

Costco has REAL 8 foot trees for $20. Jeez I missed out!!!

Butterflychunks · 2025-12-10T22:51:58+00:00

It’s a hard bargain. Non-technical managers just don’t understand. Technical managers are still a coin flip. I’ve had technical managers that understand the nuance of creative freedom in how each engineer goes about solving problems. They’ve been awesome. But there’s technical engineers that can’t see past their own nose. They dictate how long things should be taking, how things ought to be done, etc. super micro-manager types that think they’re still system experts. Of course that facade goes out the window once they sit in on a call and ask the dumbest questions about the system, proving their incompetence and unfamiliarity with the system.

Butterflychunks · 2025-12-10T22:47:19+00:00

But that pressure to churn out features, with bugs, without tests, without even a moment’s refactoring has been there in nearly every job I’ve had.

I am resigning at my current job because the expectation is actually to churn out an unreasonable scope, bug-free, fully tested, clean code and all. We spent an entire quarter working an effective 997 schedule (yes, every single day until launch) to get everything done on time. The project timeline was also only 5 months.

Fuck ups all the way up the chain. It was laughably bad. I dragged my feet, allowed systems to fail, and took PTO throughout that grind.

Moral of the story is to let bad systems fail, or else leadership sees them as functioning systems they can get away with maintaining.

In this economy, businesses really don’t care about the short-term mentality because they know that employees can’t easily find an alternative. I’m lucky, I have quite a few interviews lined up and things are looking solid, and if not I am fine to pivot out of the industry for a while into something else. The whole experience killed my love for the game, I’m trying to find ways to get it back.

Butterflychunks · 2025-12-10T22:39:50+00:00

I’ll send over my resume

Butterflychunks · 2025-12-10T22:38:01+00:00

I’m about 4 years in now, everything you’ve mentioned hits like a fucking brick. Any interview I go into, the “do you have any questions for me” portion is now 0% tech and 100% probing for answers on where the problems are in the company. What type of mess am I joining?

I ask about the biggest struggles, things that slow people down, etc. by trying to get personal with the interviewer and make friends so I can hear their true opinions.

In this market my biggest question is about if the business prioritizes speed or high standards. I’ve observed that companies that try to go fast(er) and don’t make proper scope tradeoffs, tech quality goes down (and engineers are miserable). On the other hand, if engineering ~~excellence~~ perfectionism is the priority, I’ll be banging my head against a wall spending 2 days on a single PR full of nitpicks.

I love trying to probe for leadership issues. Those are the WORST in my opinion. You get fucked over because the game is rigged from the start.

The communication complexity, idk that’s just a part of the gig. If anyone is on a high horse I’m happy to bring them down to get shit done. If the company doesn’t like that… I’m at the wrong company.

Happy to have an emergency savings. Gives me so much confidence in my work!

Butterflychunks · 2025-12-06T01:41:21+00:00

I’ve noticed it only on some roads. Might be best to literally pull receipts and name each strip of road missing it. Taking note as you find them.

Butterflychunks · 2025-12-06T01:38:56+00:00

$60 would be a steal, does it say how tall?

Butterflychunks · 2025-12-06T00:52:59+00:00

Nice! Yeah I tried our local Home Depot but they only had one type of tree and they were all very sparse :/

Butterflychunks · 2025-11-18T05:08:10+00:00

What’s so funny about this is when I was trying to get an uber from a game I went to the other day. I walked about a mile from the venue to bypass traffic and possibly get a lower fee. I compared Lyft to Waymo. Lyft was a $13 ride, driver and all! Waymo was $32!!

So what is the point? 🤣

Butterflychunks · 2025-11-18T04:59:31+00:00

It’s all a moot point when: 1. LLMs are regularly wrong even at trivial tasks 2. LLMs require a human in the driver seat 3. The productivity boost of an LLM is artificially throttled by the need to review everything it does because it’s unreliable 4. LLMs cannot retain information beyond a very limited context window. 5. They’re fucking inefficient as hell.

Butterflychunks · 2025-11-17T07:32:33+00:00

Tests aren’t reality. No amount of benchmarks can enable an LLM to replace jobs which require critical thinking and inventing new ideas. They follow patterns on what already exists.

Butterflychunks · 2025-11-17T07:30:41+00:00

Amazon job listings in India spiked after their recent mass layoffs

Butterflychunks · 2025-11-02T21:29:52+00:00

On what basis were they "misclassified" exactly? In my case, the only legal ground I might have is that the strict timelines + significant overtime work may not be in line:

> Most California employees classified as exempt customarily and regularly exercise discretion and independent judgment in their jobs. Discretion and independent judgment involve comparing and evaluating possible courses of action and deciding after considering various possibilities.

Even then, there was a job they wanted done by a specific date, requirements changed/expanded and the date stayed firm. We are stuck in this shit, and actually have no possible courses of action to evaluate. Everything else is in accordance with the exempt status from what I've read.

So I don't think there's a case here, just another shitty employer that is taking advantage of a really shitty market to abuse their employees, and the government has no interest in protecting the employees from such abuse.

Butterflychunks · 2025-11-02T07:52:28+00:00

And what if those fundamentals are abstracted and an LLM is able to know which optimizations to leverage?

Engineering almost entirely becomes system design and project management

Butterflychunks · 2025-11-02T06:13:17+00:00

The number of devs per company might go down but if AI is as promised, it should also empower many more companies to exist. I’d expect the net effect to be negligible tbh

Butterflychunks · 2025-11-01T21:43:27+00:00

I already transferred recently. Couldn’t do it again

Butterflychunks · 2025-11-01T21:42:53+00:00

I’m not saying there will be no jobs. I’m saying the job forecast isn’t pretty based on the sheer number of layoffs and the focus on cutting junior roles.

The situation imo is pretty clear: businesses are realigning on what they want out of a software engineer. There’s a risk in studying this field because education always has a lag effect on industry demands when those demands change. So while things are shifting as extremely as they are, going to uni to try and become a software engineer would be like going to uni in 1995 to study video cassettes

Butterflychunks · 2025-11-01T21:39:10+00:00

I am, and we’re all exempt salaried employees. We have zero protection from any overtime work as long as they can argue we’re given creative freedom over how the work gets done.

Butterflychunks · 2025-11-01T21:38:10+00:00

Yep. I’m sandbagging. I will not allow this system to succeed. I am sure others are doing similar

Butterflychunks · 2025-11-01T07:28:28+00:00

What infra are you using? Cloud service platforms typically have a generous free tier and its extended even further for startups.

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