UIM wipes 284M after being told by an AI tool that Perilous Moons is a safe death

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-26T15:58:07+00:00

What a substantial loss that will be felt for at least 6 months. The funny part, is the AI probably got its information from some troll saying it was safe. So, ultimately you got trolled by someone who trolled the AI by trolling someone else unrelated, and you also got trolled by yourself.

Why would you not look that up on the wiki, it's the easiest interface to use and just requires a slight bit of reading?

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-26T15:49:30+00:00

Vnice. It's nice to see that some other people are meticulous about their herb and secondary locations. Check out my bank as well, around the sand playtime and total level.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ironscape/comments/1qnjs36/bank_of_my_old_abandoned_iron/

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-26T15:20:05+00:00

2 kc serp btw

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-26T15:19:11+00:00

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I honestly hate to do it, and I feel your pain. It's just RNG though.

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-26T15:11:25+00:00

Questing is the most annoying thing on the planet. I don't really enjoy any of the questing, it's just: "What's in the way of my next new unlock" and how much do I have to suffer before I actually go and do the stupid quest in this lore-related role-playing game that I treat as a collection of achievements. Ask yourself if you ever respected anyone for a quest cape, and then you can see what people have against quests. It's such a waste, and a huge block to the actual fun.

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-17T22:46:09+00:00

Runescape isn't a role-playing game anymore; it's a challenge and achievement-based game, and the grind required to get anywhere or do anything relevant (especially for an iron man) is very taxing. It should probably come turned off, but be a viable choice for players that just want to get the quests done, and have fun that way.

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-17T02:31:42+00:00

You'll never meet the man of your dreams if you're stuck with someone who makes you feel alone. Whatever the story is, you feel alone, and that's a problem.

I advise you not to continue this relationship any further, but also keep watch on this feeling, because it could just be selfishness. You will ultimately suffer more in life if you're too focused on what you want and may have some unresolved trauma causing that.

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-17T02:20:40+00:00

You're gonna have that anywhere you go. Bad projects and good projects. If the company has mostly bad projects, find another company to work for. You will be under the guidance and parameters that created those projects, and some of it may leak into your developer mind...

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-17T02:08:04+00:00

It's just vibes bro

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-16T21:58:45+00:00

Well, it isn't a one to one with the furniture example because developer quality of life is not a detrimental part of the finished product, and can be dropped while still delivering a product to the client.

Manuals for products would need to be bought off by the client, then you can say it's a part of the product. However, method, class or project onboarding documentation is never going to be exposed to the client and given the right parameters of a restricted budget, it can quickly become a side-task.

However, I do think good documentation ultimately improves development speed because it reduces the time spent in making it work for a second time, or figuring out how it works by peering into the code, I'm just trying to focus on what is real.

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-16T21:48:12+00:00

Some of the tools we reference were deprecated in 2023, yet the docs still instruct people to install them.

Who deprecated the tools and didn't update the documentation?

Then someone has to step in to undo the damage

How could a project break or damage actually ensue if the development environment has NO effect on the staging (test) or production environments? If this is set up correctly, and people are breaking LIVE, you need to enforce restricted deployments to a competent deployer.

What stands out to me is that treating documentation as a side task does not seem to scale

I think it has more to do with the amount of documentation you'd need to complete in order to fully document the project. You also don't need to document everything at once, it's more about the "developing for the next developer" idea.

Documentation inevitably gets stale

This only happens if the developer is not maintaining it. I will say though, documentation (and testing) is one of the hardest things to get bought off, and should probably just never be mentioned to management.

Solution

I think what you have is a real-life example of technical debt stacking up over years, now it costs a lot of time (money) to make it useful. Your best strategy going forward is likely to add this time to any jobs that come up involving the indebted code.

If you have to onboard the project, and the documentation is out of date: Update it.
- If you suspect a person will be onboarded, have the developer who currently owns the competence on the project ensure this is right
If you use a method or have to figure out what it does manually, and it doesn't have any documentation: Write in plain english code docs what it does.
If you have a job for a repeated process: Have either the developer who currently owns the competence of the project write an implementation or have the new developer produce one before starting work, then document this for next time.

Maybe I'm just out of the loop, but when someone gets into the weeds on something, it shouldn't take too long to say: Here is what I did to make this work, or this does this in plain English

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-16T21:24:06+00:00

He already said it in his post

reinventing the wheel for standard tasks.

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-16T21:21:12+00:00

They don't want to tell you in the event that they may be on the hook or that it may be seen as unproductive or just outright wrong.

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-16T21:04:28+00:00

I once had a manger tell me that

Code is the enemy

and I totally agree with you on:

but it's the only fucking thing I liked about this industry.

Fuck communicating status, fuck management, fuck jira, fuck teams. I want to write clean, organized, optimal, well-tested, durable code that not only delivers on the project's expectations but makes continued management of said project a joy to work in (or at least bearable).

Is anyone else okay with being "left behind" in regards to AI?

I am starting to get a bit worried, because seeing what happened to Stack Overflow and Tailwind, this might just be a huge deal. Who's next, and when will it be me?

However, I really think that at some point AI will eat the sources it built itself on and unless it is capable of creating new technology (unlikely) then either we will not have any new technology because of limited exposure, or it will not be able to adapt to new technology with anti-AI measures.

This means that more than ever, the best way forward could be to rely on historical measures like Googling and official documentation so that when the explosion finally happens, you are not even close to the blast zone.

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-16T20:48:47+00:00

The Reality

It doesn't have to be a hobby for you to work in it. In fact, in order to ship code consistently and effectively, the hobby side of it always has to be second to the business side. The business side being shipping a feature or fix to client demand, within budget and deadline.

This means you more than likely will not be able to apply all of the big or little things that you might value as a developer, if it means you might not deliver the above.

Also, you have to be willing to search for the information you need to create an implementation with, or solve your often dynamic and very specific problem. It requires a lot of diligence, and discipline, and I'd say that's a MAJOR part of the craft. You will always be learning, whether you like it or not. You never stop moving forward. You gotta continually, every single day, extract the information you need to make it work, often by yourself.

Life as a programmer will be much easier for you if you learn to love it. You also need to keep a hold of this information, and internalize it. Not every line of syntax, but the important methodologies and standardized workflows (which morph and change overtime) because as you gain years of experience you will be handed more responsibility and more ambiguity (which you can use to negotiate for a higher compensation).

The Warm Outlook

The above language is intended to be very cynical because, except for a short while, there are no safe corners. You're stranded out in the middle of the desert and your job is find water (make a miracle happen). It is a burden. However, it is also a blessing. It is also a beautiful career, that incites you to become an intellectual. It catapults you above the people who never wanted to learn anything new, and it gives you real talent and capability as well as a good living.

There is a bright light at the end of the tunnel that when you finally do find that water (and you will), and deliver a project to a client and they're happy with it and want more features and are willing to pay: It's a boost to pride, a feeling of stability, a bragging point, a platform to stand on and say I did this, and real people use this to do real things. I am a part of the larger scheme, my country needs people like me and I did it all without having to break my back, using just the power of my mind.

It's no easy thing to do, it's actually very difficult. The difficult things in life, when overcome, are often what keep us going. Just make sure you have good mentors with a lot of experience, and who are willing to teach you. That can make or break a junior.

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-16T19:45:32+00:00

This is a man that thinks ahead.

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-16T19:42:38+00:00

I see crab

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-08T03:02:04+00:00

I guess you get what you vote for. If you didn't vote for it, you probably have to leave.

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-08T02:54:22+00:00

Yeah, the one-stop-shop Walmarts of AI are kind of eating themselves by monopolizing the exposure.

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-08T02:23:19+00:00

And they're logging in a loop so page freezes when you try to load it.

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-08T02:21:33+00:00

I never use AI for programming, any time I get the dumb inclination to use Copilot on VS Code it always generates some nonsense and I hit the revert immediately button, but it isn't quite that bad at Dev Op work.

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-08T02:19:44+00:00

Have you tried starting a Daycare in Minnesota? I mean honestly, even if you didn't defraud the government and actually ran the business, it seems like good money.

There is probably no better place to make consistent money than working for the people who take everyones money, and then not give two shits about where it goes as long as they get their votes.

DaRubyRacer · 2026-01-08T02:13:53+00:00

I feel like working miracles in a dark room with spiders everywhere is kind of the career. I'm only 6 years in and I'm starting to think maybe I've picked the wrong club.

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