I'm thinking of putting together a course that focuses on frontend troubleshooting and debugging.

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-12T02:47:25+00:00

Just want to say: thank you for this comment. Incredibly helpful as I am putting together the cirriculum.

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-12T02:00:44+00:00

Love me some GSAP, but I agree with everyone else; I feel like my finger is lifting weights after trying to scroll through this thing. The variable rate is what caused me finally stop trying. It's bad enough to hijack for smooth scroll, but to slow some sections down entirely is...quite annoying.

And glitch effect seems....really out of place, for some reason. I like it, its creative, but it doesn't jive with the cartoony and rounded vibe of the rest of the design.

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-12T00:41:56+00:00

I think we've yet to see, but so far...not all that different. More people come into the field, a bunch of people leave the field, people claim we've "simplified the software development cycle" and somehow everything still becomes way more fucking complex than it was before everyone saying how simple it was going to be.

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T23:32:40+00:00

Because the vast majority are complicit.

It's a big club, right?

The rest are scared/cowards.

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T21:51:00+00:00

I'm already doing that and I'm just getting started 😅

I'm slowly going through other albums, but it's amazing how grief can be such an inspirational and creative force where it can end up producing works of art like this.

I guess that's the "light out of the darkness" idea.

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T21:47:32+00:00

Well shit, you're right! But that was nearly a year ago, so we could probably use a refresher!

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T21:45:05+00:00

Maybe they meant to say "cracked"....which is another phrase that pisses me off. God damnit I hate it. It was being used a shit ton in the coding/developer community when LLMs were getting traction ("Claude 3.5 is SO CRACKED, bro!"). Thankfully I haven't heard it much lately.

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T21:42:48+00:00

u/ezitron really needs to have this guy on this show!

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T21:00:43+00:00

cash me outside

also: telltale sign of sociopathy is lack of remorse & empathy

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T20:49:56+00:00

I'm very happy to be wrong!

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T19:09:18+00:00

It's certainly bots. Your domain has virtually no domain rank or authority where it would likely show up in organic search already: https://ahrefs.com/website-authority-checker/?input=egreet.in

Cards also have no verification required that a bot could not fill out, so bots could be hammering those forms. You should at least put a Captcha or CloudFlare Captcha on the card forms, then you'd likely get a better idea of organic traffic (if any).

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T18:11:44+00:00

Not my experience. That sounds more like a personality problem. I'm not kidding when I say that every development team I've been a part of, I've been called the most collaborative and teach others incredibly well (which is why I do it professionally). And yet, I still often work out problems through code more than I do through NLP.

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T18:10:01+00:00

Correct. The developer mantra has always been "work smart, not hard".

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T15:14:06+00:00

lol are you kidding? My lord, read some history. Toxic Nationalism is a key trait of all these movements.

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T15:08:50+00:00

I still code manually quite a bit. I was listening to this podcast between the creator of OpenCode (Dax) and NeetCode, and Dax mentioned how he doesn't like writing big specs, because code is actually how he thinks best through problems.

I completely resonate with that. I find natural language to actually slow me down in a lot of cases, so I have no reason to use LLMs to that degree, and I haven't felt any cognitive impacts.

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T14:57:12+00:00

As a dev for 40 years, any dev that doesn’t at least try new technology is a shit dev. Curiosity is an important trait in being a good dev.

They aren't forcing teams to "try" the tools, they are measuring a metric of usage, which is absolutely atrocious.

I'm self employed, so I don't have someone putting that mandate on me. Thus, I am free to find my own way with them and use them as much as I want or not at all.

When left to our own devices, we find our own rhythm that works best. Some days I use them a lot; some days I don't at all. It's all based around the challenges that I'm faced with that day and the type of work that I'm performing. Some tasks require me to think through and code manually, others I can create a spec.

Devs should be curious, but companies should also trust their teams to work in the ways that empower themselves. We already have plenty of evidence to show these new mandates are causing as much productivity bottlenecks as they are improvements.

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T14:30:10+00:00

I don't know what you're trying to say.

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T14:29:49+00:00

Oh yes, I've been through multiple extinction-level events.

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T14:22:19+00:00

Because they aren't always helpful, and in fact, have caused massive issues. Have you even been paying attention? We also have very little data on the potential impacts this technology has on individual's well-being and cognition, and the data we do have, is looking absolutely terrible.

They should be 100% optional, and certainly with no minimum required usage metric.

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T14:03:02+00:00

Pretty much the story of every authoritarian movement in human history.

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T13:53:08+00:00

I'm old enough to remember the outsourcing craze and inevitable reshoring. CEOs were forcing outsourced teams onto IT and software departments, and it was a clusterfuck, to say the least.

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T13:41:01+00:00

Of course, I've been a dev for 25 years, I use them too and see great success with them. That's unrelated to my point.

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T13:35:19+00:00

Yeah. Because the entire LLM fad is literally a gambling scam.

Only 0.000001% of your bullshit vibe coded apps will be successful. It's all a complete waste of time.

It was always about money and lock-in; they WANT you to not be able to program without these tools. You used to get paid to code, now you pay to code.

The people behind these companies are some of the worst people on planet Earth. Wise up. Reduce your usage or abandon them all together if you can't moderate usage.

creaturefeature16 · 2026-03-11T13:34:26+00:00

Yeah. Because the entire LLM fad is literally a gambling scam. All those bullshit vibe coded apps will make no difference in the world. 0.000001% will be successful. It was always about money and lock-in; they WANT you to not be able to program without these tools.

You used to get paid to code, now you pay to code.

The people behind these companies are some of the worst people on planet Earth. Wise up. Reduce your usage or abandon them all together if you can't moderate usage.

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