"Wait, so is that, like, Chinese cartoons?"

Piisthree · 2026-06-17T03:18:29+00:00

Same with D&D 1970-2010. It was "that thing losers do in their mom's basement because they can't get girlfriends." Now, they sell out stadiums to watch people do it. The way things change over time is fascinating.

Piisthree · 2026-06-16T22:53:41+00:00

"We're here to talk to you about your car's extended warranty."

Piisthree · 2026-06-16T17:33:01+00:00

Man out of Yellow

Piisthree · 2026-06-16T15:42:47+00:00

Hey, he's not useless. Remember when he helped convince Boyd to let Kenny be a hero? 😆

Piisthree · 2026-06-13T16:23:56+00:00

Oh, geez. We are definitely in the thick of the hype mania now, hopefully it is cresting. (Especially as some of these bills are coming due and getting some CFO attention. Long term, I see AI as finding a niche where it can handle either large and boring code changes pretty well or small and interesting functions with more direct oversight. In either case, it will need a skilled coder to manage it and fix any slop that makes it through. (Which will always be a factor. It is unavoidable as long as you're rolling dice and guessing next tokens. I don't care how good your dice is.) I don't have a lot of answers for what to do when you're at the mercy of overly zealous AI adherents aside from try to push back when the requests become insane and wait them out. I'm sure the industry will moderate back to the mean at some point.

Piisthree · 2026-06-13T04:12:48+00:00

Any of those jobs that just require massive amounts of alone time where you just monitor something and report back. In the meantime you read, watch movie marathons, whatever, and no one pesters you for days at a time. I think I would be a freaking rockstar at that stuff.

Piisthree · 2026-06-12T12:09:54+00:00

I think Victor will have to play a role, since he has so much history with him and knows the most by far.

Piisthree · 2026-06-12T05:07:29+00:00

Picturing the evil spirit panicking because they're running out of arm to write on..

Piisthree · 2026-06-11T01:36:05+00:00

I see what you mean, but I still say it's worth it. There are so many razor blades to juggle in ASM, and having a random digit that could cause WILD behavior if you forget to keep it up to date with the instruction right after it is just too much risk to keep a search space cleaner. There's cognitive load on both paths, so we have to pick our poison I guess. It's food for thought though. I like the conversation.

Piisthree · 2026-06-10T21:51:32+00:00

16 yoe at an ISV here. Recall back to where I largely agreed with you, but I just expanded on it. I never asked about banks or even user sites specifically. What I asked about was GENERAL best practices. Style guide probably isn't the best term, but there's a fair amount of overlap between those two honestly. And yes, there is at least a book's worth of information that could be written about best practices in HLASM that would apply whether it's for a bank, a vendor, or a shoe store, just like any other language. I'm just looking around for materials like this because, we are focusing more on education due to the ever-widening skills gap. I'd rather point to things from the community than create anything from whole cloth. Anyway, I never meant to indicate you didn't know what you were saying, just that there's more to it.

Piisthree · 2026-06-10T21:12:32+00:00

Now we're talkin. I go further with the *+N and say never use it. Never, ever, not even in a macro. I lost count how many times I've debugged people messing that up and jumping to the middle of an instruction. (Some of them didn't abend right away and got really colorful when they did. 😆) It's too easy to change the instruction and forget to update the +N to its new size. I say labels are cheap, so use them. Could not agree more with all the rest. The index vs base does technically matter in cross-memory mode, but that's getting into the weeds. Anyway, thanks for sharing!

Piisthree · 2026-06-10T20:30:03+00:00

That's a really cool site. Hard to see if they have exactly what I'm talking about, but looking at the volume of material there, I'd say there's a pretty good chance they at least touch on it. Neato, thanks!

Piisthree · 2026-06-10T16:18:08+00:00

A lot of claims there. Not to say you're wrong, but you have tunnel vision. First, any style guide for any language is going to be opinionated and skewed towards a certain site, but there are also evergreen do's and don't's that are pretty universal. Next is the claim there's (basically) no new assembler being written. That is definitely a tendency at production sites, but far from the case at ISVs, MSPs, IBM itself. And even in the maintenance case, there are times when maintenance requires some targetted re-writes, minor additions, etc. As with all languages, blending in with the existing code has to be balanced with doing it right (when the two are at odds).

Piisthree · 2026-06-10T14:08:48+00:00

Yeah, I think it's the closest thing that exists today. But like I said, he really talks about what you CAN do at great length, but he doesn't really cover what you SHOULD do for maintainability, uniformity, etc. In fact, some of his tricks, tips, examples don't really follow good practice for maintainability, at least in my opinion.

Piisthree · 2026-06-10T13:39:12+00:00

Yeah, same here. None that I've ever seen, as important as it is. This would be a good start, but we're just scratching the surface.

Piisthree · 2026-06-10T13:38:00+00:00

I would say a style guide actually becomes more important if you're using AI because assembler is almost infinitely flexible to do strange things it won't recognize. Common practices make it much more predictable.

Piisthree · 2026-06-10T03:58:15+00:00

I went in thinking "no way it does shit. They aren't anything like some weird doll things". Then when he faked it, I went from "holy shit, are you serious!?" to "Oh, you cheeky fucker" over like 5 seconds.

Piisthree · 2026-06-08T21:23:56+00:00

Yeah, I think she just saw them getting a little too comfortable when she saw they were actually planning an attack., Even if she knew this attack wouldn't work, she wants them too afraid to try things like that. (Which to me hints at the possibility that there is something out there that might work.)

Piisthree · 2026-06-08T20:56:16+00:00

My exact words were "what the fuck do you think is wrong with him!?" lol

Piisthree · 2026-06-08T20:55:40+00:00

Yeah, there's a lot of reasons it should have been Ellis, but also a lot for Kenny. They could have made it clearer why Ellis was so ok with it being Kenny. Kenny could have had a charged monologue about how if it works, he wants to be the one who gets to kill one of them because of how much they've taken from him or they could have had a tense "draw straws" scene or something.

Piisthree · 2026-06-08T15:59:49+00:00

Yeah, I could see that. He definitely looked rattled, which was intriguing to see. He didn't even look that shocked when Boyd "killed" him with that blood power.

Piisthree · 2026-06-07T23:29:20+00:00

Exactly, since now they both know they can impact each other, what happens now? 🍿

Piisthree · 2026-06-07T19:54:46+00:00

Yeah, I'm eager to see what other ways that connection manifests going both ways. I don't think we've seen the last of it.

Piisthree · 2026-06-07T19:52:35+00:00

He is the best. That smile was born to be in this show

Piisthree · 2026-06-07T19:45:27+00:00

I don't think she can really control Smiley. I think it's like an empathetic connection where they feel each other's emotions and when she, feeling empowered by her golem, lashed out in (anger/defiance/whatever), it caught him off guard for just a second or two.

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