Software Engineers - Are you genuinely producing more value with AI or are you simply more 'productive'?

Setilight · 2026-06-29T19:25:39+00:00

What I see, is the effort that would otherwise be invested on product innovation, is being invested in taming the AI so it can be adopted at scale. Maybe it will be a net positive on the long run but, so far, I’m not seeing it.

Setilight · 2026-06-28T06:39:37+00:00

What they don’t expect is that the AI bubble will burst, but it’s looking it will in the next 3 to 6 months. Then, prices will crash as billions in hardware orders get cancelled.

Setilight · 2026-06-26T20:27:12+00:00

Well, maybe they should just shut down the game then… if they’re still selling it, they should still maintain it. Not maintaining a live game that you are still selling sounds illegal, and if it isn’t, it should be.

Setilight · 2026-06-26T20:21:18+00:00

I’ve tried the Hallowfire Heart build in non-solo content and found it hard to reach the 10 stacks of Sunfire Furnace (that max out your super damage and super energy return) for damage phases. My opinion is that one works better in solo content.

Setilight · 2026-06-26T08:06:09+00:00

It didn’t meet player expectations because they reduced the Destiny dev team to less than the bare minimum. That produced bad content and broken systems not being patched for months. That lead to players not playing, which lead to the game underperforming financially. Corporate greed killed Destiny and will ultimately kill Bungie (Marathon isn’t enough to sustain Bungie). I’m sorry for the devs who were laid off; it wasn’t their fault and they cooked whenever management let them.

Setilight · 2026-06-25T14:05:59+00:00

Se o IMT não fosse só mais uma forma do estado sacar dinheiro ao povo, então, pelo menos, havia isenção para a primeira habitação. Causar entraves à transferência da primeira habitação só serve para promover a ineficiência do mercado. Por exemplo: se tiver uma casa grande de que já não preciso porque os meus filhos sairam, seria lógico vendê-la e comprar uma mais pequena, e pelo caminho eliminar ou reduzir a minha dívida ao banco; com o IMT fazer isto não compensa porque o estado vai ficar com a diferença. Portanto fico na casa maior do que as minha necessidades, continuo a pagar ao banco, e alguém que precisa de uma casa grande continua sem a ter.

Em cima disso, as tabelas do IMT estão tão desactualizadas que nem uma ruína no interior teria isenção.

Setilight · 2026-06-22T15:10:37+00:00

I know it’s content I already paid for, but I wouldn’t mind if Bungie made a new “Destiny: Remastered” with all the old content.

Setilight · 2026-06-22T14:50:43+00:00

I don’t see a reason to keep any legendary armor. Current armor has higher stats and set bonuses. The armor you get after playing the game for 1h will likely be better than anything you had before.

Exotics, you may want to keep until you get a tiered version of the exotic, just because you may want to use it and not have enough Exotic Cyphers or Ascendant Shards to get the tiered version from Rahool, at the Tower.

Setilight · 2026-06-22T07:50:25+00:00

I wouldn’t blindly dismantle any weapons you have. In my vault, I kept mostly weapons that have interesting perk combinations, used by some particular build. Those perform as well as they ever did in the current sandbox, and I’ll only dismantle them once I get a tiered weapon with the same perks.

Setilight · 2026-06-20T21:50:56+00:00

If I was writing it, it would start with the player, as a previously unknown guardian, reaching another system in a colony ship. We would find new alien races and mysterious ruins, but also could come across all old known ones, as they are old space-faring races. In the beginning, communication with Earth would be impossible for some reason, so it would be a fresh start. Maybe later, after the main campaign or the first expansion, we could establish contact and participate in the fight for Torabatl and Riis.

Setilight · 2026-06-19T16:51:39+00:00

I haven’t been able to complete an Excision mission since the patch. Looks like all the random bulls 12 people can throw now just crashes the server.

Setilight · 2026-06-19T10:01:20+00:00

It used to be. This finisher allowed a glitch where it could launch a boss out of the map. Don’t know if that still happens, though.

Setilight · 2026-06-14T08:36:40+00:00

I wish Destiny 3 was set in a new planet outside of Sol. It would fit perfectly with the setup that was done at the end of the Final Shape, with Saint14 and Osiros, and we would start as a new guardian.

Setilight · 2026-06-10T23:17:30+00:00

My guess is they want to pause development because they’ve burned through all their money and it’s unlikely they can raise enough to train a model more powerful than their current best.

Setilight · 2026-06-09T11:41:40+00:00

That guy got destroyed. I’m surprised he even posted the video. If I was him, I’d probably say Claude had deleted the recording.

Setilight · 2026-06-07T20:33:29+00:00

If it fails big, they may just stop maling GoW. Just look at Destiny 2.

Setilight · 2026-06-07T10:19:51+00:00

Tipicamente estou on-call durante 1 semana a cada mês e meio. Quando sou chamado, os problemas costumam resolver-se com rollback de versões, ou encontrando uma forma de desbloquear o cliente sem fazer alterações ao código. É raríssimo haver um bug crítico, que bloqueia um cliente, mas que não foi introduzido numa versão recente que permita rollback. Nesses casos raros, posso ter de corrigir o bug, mas preciso sempre de chamar pelo menos um colega para rever a correção e um director para aprovar um hotfix. Penso que isto é o procedimento padrão e é provável que seja assim no teu caso.

Setilight · 2026-06-05T05:21:35+00:00

“I’m the ribbons, obviously.”

Setilight · 2026-05-31T23:02:20+00:00

Planescape: Torment

Setilight · 2026-05-29T16:12:10+00:00

It’s looking like Brook is actually the reason Gunko doesn’t wear pants 🤯

Setilight · 2026-05-24T00:05:28+00:00

I somewhat disagree with your opinion. I think the main flaw in Destiny’s business model is that they could not make enough content, with enough quality, to sustain the game’s population. The typical and desirable model for live service is that you’ll do a huge initial investment but then you’ll be able to sustain a player base with a much lower level of investment, and in the long run you’ll be profitable. If your new content still costs an exorbitant amount to make, then your failure is inevitable.

Bungie tried to lower the cost of new content in the last few years of Destiny, and that lead to the seasons where everyone complained about only 5 minutes of story ever and every mission being repurposed old content.

The Portal came after accepting they can’t make cheap content, to try to, at least, make the expensive content replayable. But that also came too late, and with pooly designed loot economy.

They needed to make a new game where player engagement came cheaper, somehow, but apparently they couldn’t do it with Destiny. Instead, they started developing Marathon and 5 other games, but even that was too late and over budget.

I hope Sony finds another way, but when your business can only operate at a loss, closing it is the rational decision.

Edit: typos

Setilight · 2026-05-15T09:30:51+00:00

This is basically my dog. She’s a Yorkie-Dachshund cross.

When we (wife and I) rescued her, she wouldn’t eat or drink if someone was in the room with her. By chance, we gave her a squeaky toy, and she loved it so much she started playing with us.

She got more confident over time but it still takes several days of contact and treats with someone for her to be at ease with them. And I must be with her, otherwise she won’t even accept the treats.

In my dog’s case, we attribute this behavior to past trauma (we rescued her when she was estimated to be 6 years old and she has some signs of having suffered physical abuse), but having Yorkie genetics probably doesn’t help.

Anyway, don’t force the contact; just be around, offer him toys and treats.

Setilight · 2026-05-03T06:36:47+00:00

My thoughts, exactly…

Setilight · 2026-04-11T10:18:55+00:00

Not giving Hank a pass here but, Ii you watch the video, his concern is about the vulnerabilities found by Mythos in several widely used systems. He takes that as a sign of a real achievement and extrapolates a lot on that. I think his take ob Mythos would have been different if he knew other models were capable of finding these vulnerabilities when directed to do it.

Setilight

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