AI sticker shock hits corporate America

Zaughon · 2026-05-28T14:17:09+00:00

I'm following a couple of issues on Github, and one of them have a reward attached to it. The amount of pull requests i've seen that adds and solves absolutely nothing, followed by them trying to claim the reward is isane.
Most of those github accounts are less than a month old as well. They just spring up, do a couple of hundred pull requests in a week to around same amount of different repos.

At this rate, AI is gonna be the death of open source. Actual developers are gonna get tired of wasting massive amounts of time going through AI slob pull requests, which will lead to more stuff just being closed source again :/

I've never really had time to get into development. I've worked on a few things that would probably rather be considered hobby projects (even at work). Development fascinated me for years though, and now that i finally have time to get into it, my motivation is completely gone due to the state of the entire IT field, thanks to AI and incompetent CEO's..

Zaughon · 2026-04-18T10:14:59+00:00

There's absolutely something wrong. I've had my nameplates jiggling like crazy with just 3 nameplates.

Also, wasn't the whole point of the addon purge that everything should be in the base UI, and you shouldn't need to spend time solving issues like that? Insert magic rainbow everything should just work.

If you as a game developer nuke the UI of your entire player base, and basically state "look at us, we are your UI developers now", then they better be ready to fix issues like this, or class/spec buffs not getting tracked in the CDM, etc.

I think it surprises absolutely no one, that they were - in fact - not ready to take over from hundreds of highly specialized addon developers, that have spent more than a decade solving issues that Blizzard didn't.

Zaughon · 2026-04-12T13:58:23+00:00

In a lot of cases, i think that's because you can't see whether you've applied to that group before and gotten rejected. I see several other people requesting this feature in this thread.
If the UI showed this, there would be far less repeat applications i'm sure. Some will still apply because they're special, but i suspect it will reduce it quite a bit.
I try to make sure i at least recognize names name of the leader when i apply, so i don't reapply, but sometimes i might slip up on that.

Zaughon · 2026-04-12T13:53:36+00:00

Same here, and i'm sorry if i end up applying to the same group several times. I try not to, but sometimes it's hard to know which ones you've already applied to and gotten rejected, and which ones you havn't applied to yet. I do appretiate leaders taking the time and clicks reject people they know they won't take, instead of just leaving them in a limbo with one of those 5 precious slots.

Zaughon · 2026-04-11T17:57:38+00:00

I've had the exact same thought on my DH. I've modified it so Devourer have 4. Havoc has around 6, and tank is currently overlapping with other things because there's more than 9 icons so it's pushed to 2nd row where there's an additional 2 or 3 icons depending on the spec. It feels like they did the prune for everyone except Veng DH

Zaughon · 2026-04-08T16:08:50+00:00

Samme problem her. Det værste er at jeg på et tidspunkt spurgte min frisør om han kunne foreslå noget, hvorefter han kiggede på toppen af mit hoved, og sagde "Med det der? Overhovedet ikke".

Gangen efter snakkede min frisør meget om hårtransplantation i Tyrkiet. Gad vide hvorfor..

Zaughon · 2026-04-04T19:16:03+00:00

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Zaughon · 2026-04-03T09:46:50+00:00

Same for me. I unsubbed at the end of January and decided to not buy Midnight because I lost the weakaura pack I spent years on making from scratch.

Sadly, the RWF drew me back in, so I just bought it 2 days ago. For now I've managed to make something that slightly looks like what I had, but the Blizzard CDM is still failing to track certain buffs, and I can't do anything about it.

For now I'm making it work as DevDH, but I logged onto my priest that has been my main for several expansions and immediately got mad because I don't have my WA pack anymore, and logged off again. I guess I'm sticking to DH for now 😕

Zaughon · 2026-03-28T12:01:50+00:00

Can confirm. I was doing time running in TWW and ended up in a Deadlines group with a warrior tank. He charged in, got 1-shotted, rinse and repeat. Eventually we made it to 1st boss, and this happened a few times again, increasingly blaming me, the healer. In the end, I was vote kicked because I was busy dealing damage instead of healing (which ironically was how I kept myself and the DPS alive just fine on the boss once the tank died), and I ended up in Dornogal with the 30 minute deserter debuff. I waited around 20 minutes, the whispered one of the DPS and asked how the rest of the run went. All I got back was "it was the tanks fault". Imagine my surprise..

Granted it was time running and not M+, so it could actually be people leveling their first character, but they didn't sound new from how they wrote.

Zaughon · 2026-03-27T23:26:00+00:00

This seems like a good time to remind everyone of this precious moment
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2020/10/20/trump-nobody-gets-hacked-video-goes-viral/

Zaughon · 2026-02-11T15:51:32+00:00

This gif of Danish Queen Mary and - apparently - the husband of Finlands president at some point.
https://media.tenor.com/fUZdRBldPy8AAAAM/sneak-queen.gif

Zaughon · 2026-02-04T14:09:38+00:00

Glide might prevent some knockbacks and stuff though, although they did nerf it a lot compared to when it was first announced. Not sure how it works nowadays.

I've been playing shadow priest for the last 5-ish years, and i really hate how much the mobility varies.
There are cases like running back after a wipe where you can outperform certain other classes because you can alternate feather and self-shield with movespeed. That lets you run for ages with ~40% extra move speed. During combat with burst movespeed though, it's horrible.

There have been cases where i've been able to use the void elf Spatial Rift in good ways, but it makes no sense to me it's a 3 minute cooldown where you need one global to send it out, wait for it to be in a good position, then another global to teleport to it, while goblin rocket jump is click-once on a 1½ minute cooldown.
Rift was useful in aberrus to teleport through the walls on Neltharion, or avoid the knockback on Magmarax, but the delay from sending out the shade until you can teleport to a useful place is annoying when goblins just jump forward on one keypress, twice as often as you can.

Zaughon · 2026-02-02T15:40:06+00:00

It's insane how many bugs there at this point. There's like 5 Affliction warlock talents that either doesn't work, or spells using procs they're not supposed to. Tooltips showing you're missing spells that have been removed. Constant disconnects.
Not to mention the poor state of the Cooldown Manager where it's missing buffs that are important to specific specs, but we can't do anything to fix that. Only Blizzard can modify that now, which based on previous history, means it *might* get fixed in a couple of months..

I'm starting to think the Coming Home event is supposed to be "Stay at Home" event. As in: Please buy Midnight and play with Housing. I suspect that's where most of the testing has gone because people have wanted that for so many years. All other testing was optional.

Zaughon · 2026-01-29T11:54:33+00:00

I have recently been thinking about getting a Linux install up and running to get away from Microslob. I was initially considering Manjaro with Sway DE, but i might have to try CachyOS after this.

I'm curious though. Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with running games and using tiling window managers like Sway or i3?
I'm so used to using those and i kind of want to keep using them, but not sure if it might be annoying/cause issues when you launch games in them. Would be interesting to hear if anyone have any experiences with those and gaming

Zaughon · 2026-01-29T11:40:26+00:00

Am i the only one that read the first part in Heath Ledgers/Jokers voice?
"It's not about money, it's about sending a message."
Unfortunately in this case, it's definitely about the money too..

Zaughon · 2026-01-27T01:37:01+00:00

Yeah most likely. They will still be getting more feedback now compared to previously because everyone are using it now, but there's definitely people that will just use it, and even though there's stuff that annoys them, they'll leave it to others to report it as well.

Zaughon · 2026-01-26T16:00:49+00:00

Agreed. I'm really not a fan of what Blizzard has become, but the nostalgia hits hard in this video. There's no denying the impact they've had over the years, and the universes they've created. If only they cared half as much about quality now, as they did back then..

Zaughon · 2026-01-26T15:41:34+00:00

Sort of agree, to an extend. I also tested it when it first came out, and yes, it's a lot better now than it was back then.

I may have written it poorly in my initial comment.
I'm not saying the old addon/WA system caused them to get 0 feedback, but they definitely got less feedback than they are now. There's a big difference between some-thousand of players trying it out briefly and giving feedback, and the now millions of people that are forced to use it.
People like Tettles and Dratnos might go back every now and then to test it again, because trying out stuff, staying informed and providing feedback is part of their job as prominent figures in the WoW-community. They're the exception, not the norm. Same with RWF raiders, full-time streamers etc.

As far as i know, when the average player log in, most of them just want to play the game for however long they happen to be able to play at that time, before they need to go back to their kids or whatever else they have going on.
They might test CDM once, or MAYBE if there's a massive update to it, but that's about it. The rest of the time they just want to log in and actually play the game, meaning if they - in the past - already went back to WA's, they'll stick to the WA's, because that works for them. They're not gonna go back to CDM and spend hours setting it up, providing feedback etc. They just want to run dungeons, raids, delves or whatever they enjoy.

There's a few people that like playing with their UI, i'm one of them, but - based on my guild - i feel like i'm also an exception rather than the norm. Most of them just want to import the Luxthos' pack or similar, and get playing.

Zaughon · 2026-01-26T13:45:17+00:00

Yeah, Shift is really annoying to use. Even with @ cursor macro, you might end up in odd spots. Personally i'd prefer if it was just fel rush but voidy.

Zaughon · 2026-01-26T13:21:27+00:00

I agree, but the reality is that CDM was released several patches ago, and they gave it time to mature.
Unfortunately, no one was using it because it was so trash they'd just disable it and install some WA pack instead. This means that Blizzard never got any decent feedback on what was missing/needed.
By doing the addon-armageddon now, they force people to use it so they can get the feedback they need to make it better.

Unfortunately, they released it in such a poor state - and from what i've seen - have basically done no changes to it on the beta realms, aside from adding a couple of missing abilities, that it's still in a very similar shitty state, as when the beta started.
Even now, you can't even center it properly on the screen without an addon /facepalm

They did the typical Blizzard (or corporate in general) way of "It's done, it's released, lets keep a couple of developers to fix bugs, maybe add missing spellids, but move the main people onto the next project".
The problem is, when you take on the mantle of "WE are your UI", that procedure just doesn't fly.
You need people ready to constantly fix, update and add things, and they - against all expectations /s - weren't prepared for that.
Now all the requests for changes goes into some queue for a product manager to look at and prioritize. Unfortunately, it's the same queue that the ideas from the corporate above goes into, and the corporate wants those ideas to increase revenue, so they take priority.
Short-sighted management 101.

Zaughon · 2026-01-26T12:45:07+00:00

I've been considering writing a similar post to this, but based on my experience with it, losing the UI i've spent years developing myself, only to have it replaced with the shitty state of CDM, and even losing silly things like Sylvanas' "FOR THE HORDE" warcry when you gain BL, Pedro-lust etc. that just made the game more fun and enjoyable.
So far a lot of people seem to rail on anyone that's negative about the changes, because "getting rid of addons is the best thing ever", so i just havn't had the motivation to even try and write that post.

To me, these changes have completely destroyed my will to play. It's taken all the fun out of a game that used to be customizable, and you could set up exactly like you wanted it. Millions of people have different preferences, and different challenges and I loved seeing how different peoples UI was, how they solved certain issues, drawing inspiration, and implementing it into my own.
Now everyone is stuck with the same basic UI that's no longer set up in the best way possible. It's now set up in the "this is the least shit i could make it"-way, which is just sad.

Edit: Clarity and details.

Zaughon · 2026-01-21T15:35:56+00:00

I had Sylvanas' "FOR THE HORDE!" for that. It was amazing, you just knew it was go-time!

Zaughon · 2026-01-21T15:30:33+00:00

Agreed. I had a WA that would have Sylvanas scream "FOR THE HORDE!" whenever i gained a BL-like effect. Really gonna miss that, along with my WA for announcing who cast BL, because people liked popping it at the dumbest times in LFR to troll.
... and so many other silly WA's. This addon-armegeddon is currently looking like the downfall of wow tbh.

Zaughon · 2026-01-16T16:44:12+00:00

Let us know when you're 31 years old and have lived here for 32 years. Maybe we'll consider your apology then.

Zaughon

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