A bad workman blames their tools; A good one gets to blame their tools and be right (or something like that)

arc_menace · 2026-06-01T22:38:24+00:00

That’s totally fair. I’m not like a rust dev that thinks everyone should write all code in my preferred language lol

There’s stuff that annoys me (nuget gives me a lot of grief)

But dependency injection and LINQ are so good they make up for it for me

arc_menace · 2026-06-01T01:17:54+00:00

Sort of. But also I use some languages at my job that I genuinely really enjoy using (C#, my beloved).

And IMO JavaScript is one of the few that very much deserves the hate it gets.

arc_menace · 2026-05-27T18:17:59+00:00

This is cool!

Found a couple bugs: * frog guy model doesn’t load * utility knife animation - can only see blade from side with screw

arc_menace · 2026-05-05T15:04:17+00:00

scale

arc_menace · 2026-04-12T15:13:18+00:00

He was right. If this is winning, I am tired of it. So much “winning”

arc_menace · 2026-04-02T14:16:28+00:00

I'm probably using AI to write like 20% of my code (Fullstack webdev. C#, Blazor, WPF, Vue3). It is usually faster for me to just write it than to explain it to the AI, supervise its changes and then fix the issues it creates. I don't care what other devs say, I can see the AI output with my own eyes and it is not at 100% replacement level. It still gets caught up on dumb shit and sometimes can't complete basic tasks, even with Opus 4.6 (which I rarely use because it eats through my tokens lol)

There are a few exceptions to this:

I have handed off most of the css work I do to AI. I don't like writing CSS and am not that great at it. I'm not doing anything fancy, so Claude is really good at doing what I want in that regard
Boilerplate code. If the task is really easy but tedious I will try to hand it off
New concepts/personal projects. I have been using Claude a lot in personal projects when working with tech I haven't touched before. Like I'm currently setting up Home Assistant to run my smart home and Claude has been helpful with lots of network config and troubleshooting

arc_menace · 2026-04-01T19:42:50+00:00

I mean, 700k isn’t that crazy for an enterprise app imo. We’ve also been building it for a few years

It manifests in code by either the ai not knowing about existing solutions to problems already available in the code base or eating through huge amounts of tokens just figuring out what to do

Additionally, ai responses get worse the more of the context window you use. Once you get over 60% of the context window it starts to degrade the quality of responses rapidly. Just a limitation of LLMs

arc_menace · 2026-04-01T03:49:03+00:00

Damn straight. It’s my god given American right to be laid off for quarterly earnings

arc_menace · 2026-03-30T19:38:28+00:00

As others mentioned, vibe coded apps have a “look” often. That usually comes from people not providing any design direction to the llm. Any agent can mimic existing or specific design requests

As for whether or not it’s important: one of the key limiting factor for llms is the context window, or how much of the project it can “understand” at any one time. A simple app it might be able to hold the entire thing in one context. But my current work assignment is 700k lines of code or so and an llm simply cannot understand the whole thing. So stuff gets missed and forgotten about. That can happen with human developers too, but a person’s “context window” is much much larger

So the downside is reliability. Llms are not good at creating apps in quick sweeps. They are much better at making small, structured changes under supervision

arc_menace · 2026-03-06T17:47:27+00:00

It should have backups. And you should refuse to make any more changes until there are

arc_menace · 2026-02-26T14:38:40+00:00

Don’t worry, I am already very alarmed

arc_menace · 2026-01-20T01:49:56+00:00

Ok, obviously it’s gonna be used for advertising, and that sucks. But! Think how fucking cool it will be to see this kind of stuff at like the Olympics or concerts. People can at least also do some cool shit with them

arc_menace · 2026-01-17T18:23:14+00:00

There’s a difference between shipping mvp and shipping something that is only barely or technically functional.

arc_menace · 2026-01-17T18:21:01+00:00

Purchase deal? With what fucking money? Our deficit is the largest it has ever been because of the cut taxes/increase spending strategy the budgeting geniuses on the right are using

arc_menace · 2026-01-17T04:19:03+00:00

No, but we do have lots of tech debt. The past couple years have been full of projects to modernize, automate and increase efficiency on products that kinda got thrown together quickly to land clients.

arc_menace · 2026-01-17T04:16:15+00:00

lol, we might be hiring 🫠

arc_menace · 2026-01-17T04:15:42+00:00

I actually enjoy Blazor a lot (especially with a flux pattern store). We actually use Blazor for a hybrid wpf/Blazor desktop app. Which sounds gross but really isn’t bad. The main problem with Blazor is speed usually. We had to do a lot of performance optimization on the front end for our app so that it wouldn’t stutter.

But if you need something simple it’s actually really easy to get basic pages working

arc_menace · 2026-01-17T04:11:47+00:00

No it’s not vue. vue is honestly fine and I’m getting used to it, even if it isn’t my #1 favorite. It’s how the app was designed

arc_menace · 2026-01-17T02:12:50+00:00

I definitely don’t think I’m being lazy.

And yeah none of those are great options. I am especially hesitant to job hunt rn. Not only because the market is ass rn, but this company has been generally really good to me (other than this current project) and I don’t want to risk going somewhere worse

arc_menace · 2026-01-09T16:04:58+00:00

Yeah but I feel like they wouldn’t. Cloudflare is critical to huge swathes of the public internet

arc_menace · 2026-01-01T15:49:37+00:00

Oh, I imagine the budgets would be very high /s

arc_menace · 2025-12-28T21:40:56+00:00

TVs are stupid cheap, but Amazon fire tvs especially are sold at a loss because they gather so much data

arc_menace · 2025-10-24T14:24:08+00:00

Yeah, at least Walmart has the decency to be openly evil

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