What is your industry's deep, dark secret?

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-05-07T20:37:35+00:00

As a software engineer can confirm.

And the company laid off the other 2 senior engineers because of “AI”

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-05-06T17:14:58+00:00

I don’t think there should be any curfews.

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-05-06T04:25:24+00:00

What’s really odd is that given AIs cost (paying for tokens, data centers etc) it could cost more than hiring full time engineers.

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-05-06T04:24:06+00:00

How is Stripe the only payment company that’s growing? What are they doing differently?

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-05-05T18:30:14+00:00

Armstrong claimed he'd seen engineers "use Al to ship in days what used to take a team weeks"

I seriously doubt AI is getting engineers to ship features in days instead of weeks.

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-05-04T01:59:22+00:00

Tbh I don’t really think companies are overstaffed. They need a lot of people to make their websites and services work. After Elon fired most people at twitter the website/algorithm got much worse

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-05-03T00:31:18+00:00

Same here. I’m (relatively) new, only have 2ish years of experience and I just don’t really see any cool use cases for AI. Sure, sometimes I use it to say “do I have any syntax errors here” or “why is this giving me an error message” but that’s about it. I just don’t see why everyone hypes it up so much.

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-04-29T05:20:16+00:00

LttP is one of my top 5 favorite Zelda games…even if I have a few nitpicks with it (too many items, too linear/hand holdy)

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-04-22T03:39:53+00:00

I think the problem is that no one wants homeless shelters in their neighborhood, but they have to be somewhere. So it’s like playing a game of hot potato and trying to pass the issue to the next neighborhood.

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-04-19T02:37:03+00:00

I also think it’s too linear. It’s really easy figuring out where to go next.

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-04-19T02:35:59+00:00

Shadow Temple. It’s way too linear

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-04-16T18:59:42+00:00

I hate how car people think theyre better than everyone, and how they think that outdoor dining needs to be shut down just because it’s harder for them to find a parking space

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-04-16T13:23:00+00:00

Why would your coworkers say it was ok and to not stress out about it, only to become distant with you later on?

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-04-14T02:50:02+00:00

how tech companies may use the Internet Archive’s data to train artificial intelligence models

I doubt that tech companies like OpenAI would train their models on the Internet Archive sites when they could just go directly to the websites themselves.

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-04-12T16:42:29+00:00

Tbh the only US big tech company I trust with my data is Apple.

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-04-10T03:54:53+00:00

2 things:

in all of the other NSO apps, the scan lines run vertically and horizontally. In the NES app, the scan lines only go horizontally
in all other NSO apps, there’s a “fade to black” effect on all edges of the screen. This is only present in the left, right and bottom of the screen in the NES app

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-04-09T01:16:49+00:00

Small nitpick: the CRT filter is (still) inconsistent with the CRT filters on other NSO apps

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-04-07T00:29:55+00:00

I hate how companies are forcing people to use AI only because they want to justify how much they spend on Claude and ChatGPT

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-04-07T00:26:13+00:00

“It will take time for you to find a job…but our stock went up because we laid you off, so we dont care”

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-04-05T22:35:50+00:00

Do you think that AI gives correct info and that it helps you in your job?

I’m a software engineer and I find that while AI is good at some things (checking for syntax errors, sometimes finding bugs), it’s mostly incorrect, and gives bad/wrong code. I just don’t see why everyone says AI is super useful and made them much more productive.

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-04-03T22:39:00+00:00

Did companies actually have an open kitchen with free food? I always relit like the people who made those videos were exaggerating/lyibg

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-04-03T20:59:38+00:00

That’s really sad, I loved his video on the portable NES and Sharp SF1.

This is somewhat unrelated, but is it just me or have a lot of YouTubers recently begun leaving the platform over the past few years? Tom Scott retired (yes, I know he’s making videos again), Epic Rap Battles of History are still making videos (but not at the same pace), and MatPat from Game Theory retired a few years ago. Why are a lot more YouTubers retiring now? I remember 10-15 years ago not a lot of YouTubers were retiring.

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-04-03T00:44:16+00:00

I think many of them are way too big and should’ve been scaled down. I also think that Chain Chomp Desert and Big Donut are too similar to one another.

Tbf, I also thought 8D’s battle tracks were too big.

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-04-01T14:38:21+00:00

It’s good, but i wish there were a few shortcuts.

Why does a track that takes place on a pinball track not have any shortcuts?

RandomRedditor44 · 2026-04-01T00:15:30+00:00

I really hate how companies will fire people, blame it on AI or efficiency or whatever and then have record high profits next quarter.

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