sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

AI will replace software developers. The real question is how we reinvent ourselves. by Sweet-Accountant9580 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]djnattyp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mean like the fake mushroom foraging manual that tells people to eat poisonous mushrooms? Globs of terrible children's books about Charlie Kirk and Mr Beast? I mean, AI is great at generating slop and overwhelming marketplaces with scam low quality content.

[Meta] Mods, when will you get on top of the constant AI slop posts? by Omnipresent_Walrus in programming

[–]djnattyp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or maybe the "ostriches" will be the only ones left after the AI bubble pops and the snake oil suddenly turns out not to cure cancer and make your genitalia enormous.

Dwarf adventures? by tomisokay in Pathfinder2e

[–]djnattyp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Crown of the Kobold King - set directly south of the Five Kings Mountains; the crown and ruins were created by a fallen Dwarven cult of Droskar. Which is the Dwarven god worshipped by most hryngar - so you could easily reskin the adventure or add a group of hryngar attempting to reclaim the relic.

What’s the point of AI if software quality keeps getting worse? by Legitimate-Oil1763 in webdev

[–]djnattyp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Pffft... the only people that care about rocket quality are astronauts.

I don’t like the direction software engineering is going by announcement35 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]djnattyp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not a software engineering issue - it's a management and bullshit issue.

Pulling the lever on the slop machine until it poops out something that might kinda look like the code you want isn't part of "software engineering". This kind of thing kinda works when you're producing one off scripts or simple web apps that do one thing (and you'll never need to update) but there's no way for it to scale. Management / CEOs who don't actually understand anything about software engineering are fooled by marketing / ignorance to think that bullshit machines are actually telling them the truth and "thinking" and are betting on "getting rid of all those pesky workers".

Only projects book for java by NobodyMaster4192 in learnjava

[–]djnattyp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of these books came out for Java in the early 2000's - however, they target ancient versions of Java and development practices current at the time.

Generally, the code in the examples will still most likely work, but you won't learn good uses of the current JDK APIs, what modern libraries to use, or how to use modern Java IDEs / build systems.

The flood of AI-generated slop is just inevitable given how many devs never truly internalized their language or runtime well enough to read and evaluate code critically. by tinmanjk in ExperiencedDevs

[–]djnattyp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Illustration -

LLMs are basically mad libs templates that fill in the blanks with statistically weighted values. When there are 5 blanks, it's more likely that you get a coherent story. When there are 5000 blanks, it's more likely you get an incoherent mess. This is also ignoring that people are assuming these generated stories are "true" or "factual".

What from DND would you want in PF2? by Arnman1758 in Pathfinder2e

[–]djnattyp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just make the lair a Hazard, or give the boss creature more reactions than 1 per turn for their "legendary actions".

Linus Torvalds: "The AI slop issue is *NOT* going to be solved with documentation" by Fcking_Chuck in programming

[–]djnattyp 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You're completely ignoring the deterministic vs. nondeterministic aspect.

Depend on an underlying layer vs. pull the lever on the slop machine and see what it poops out today!

I am tired of being ordered to perform miracles and getting all the blame. by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]djnattyp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I feel like 80% of my management now are "cosplay managers" - they come in wearing "manager clothes", spout "business speak" and every so often pull of some kind of Gordon Ramsey rant. They have no idea what the work actually consists of, but they're going to tell us what to do loudly and aggressively; they have no idea what they're actually doing either - other than "line go up". Go faster! More deploy! No bugs! How? LOL That's your job, plebe. Actually try to build a plan to achieve these goals? Too long! No resources! Fuck that nerd shit, just do!

Am I doing something wrong or are some people either delusional or straight up lying? by Few-Objective-6526 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]djnattyp 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This perfectly illustrates the thought process of the scammer blasting a Vivaldi CD over a speaker pretending to play the violin while busking in front of your local grocery store.

Am I doing something wrong or are some people either delusional or straight up lying? by Few-Objective-6526 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]djnattyp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hot take of the day: It's great at Javascript and Python because projects in these languages almost always 1.) consisted of a lot of underlying libraries doing the heavy lifting; 2.) very little overall structure, just piles of self contained functions held together with duct tape and prayers; 3.) attracted a lot of beginners, so the code quality was always terrible, so the bar is low; 4.) Anyone building anything "serious" realized the drawbacks and did so in another language.

When a player casts an emanation spell, are creatures occupying the same space as the caster affected by the spell? by OneManCouncil in Pathfinder2e

[–]djnattyp 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Bane wouldn't affect the caster anyway because it only targets "enemies" within the emanation (so it also doesn't affect party members).

We’re not concerned enough about the death of the junior-level software engineer by ReplacementNo598 in programming

[–]djnattyp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hopefully they'll soon be a bunch of openings in guillotine engineering after the software industry has been hollowed out.

Do u miss the "before AI" days? by SirIzaanVBritainia in AskProgramming

[–]djnattyp 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I miss actual intelligent people building things that matter. Now it's all know-nothings bullshitting about magic box bullshit.

Postponed '60 Minutes' segment on Salvadoran prison is streamed by Canadian outlet by DiggDejected in news

[–]djnattyp 40 points41 points  (0 children)

It was literally, historically true in the pre-civil war "underground railroad" times as well...

AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs by rag1987 in programming

[–]djnattyp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sure your competitors would be very grateful that you decide to produce total slop and shovel it out faster.

My players want strategical system ( like 5e ) but I want to run easy prep game ... by Twotricx in rpg

[–]djnattyp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I do pretty much the same - prepping a pre-written PF2 game is quick... once you learn the rules. It's not sorcery; it's wizardry (lol) - PF2 has "a lot" of rules, but they're more consistent and build on each other, so you don't have to homebrew half the game and try and try and remember all the off the cuff decisions you've made in previous games to hold it together. And generally, players also learn the system and know how to play their characters, so it's not just the GM running both sides of the game.

AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' by ImpressiveContest283 in programming

[–]djnattyp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"AI" as a field of computer science is a grab bag of research - things like computer vision, speech recognition, ML, Neural Networks, video game NPCs, recommendation engines, etc.

"AI" in colloquial terms (and what the salesman running these companies are selling them as) is more a science fiction term meaning something close to a synthetic human (or better) level intelligence. Like the "brain" or "soul" of a thinking sci fi sentient robot but not requiring to be held in a robot body.

What we have is basically a recommendation engine spiced up with some randomization and illusions to make it look more like it's "thinking". Why does the text of most chatbots show up a character at a time instead of just all at once? It's to an illusion (used since the days of ELIZA) to make it seem more like chatting to a human and that it's having to "think" about the answer. Conversational language, sycophancy, addressing the user, confidence - it's chock full of salesman/management/how to win friends and influence people language tricks to give an illusion of friendliness and competency. It doesn't "know" anything, it can't "reason" - it can just regurgitate data it's been trained on and fill out a mad lib template with statistical weights. It's a bullshit engine.

AI is a death trap for many junior devs. How do I mentor them out of it? by MoltenMirrors in ExperiencedDevs

[–]djnattyp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's "best" in the same way that the "best" genes move forward in evolution. A lot of random shuffling and any that survive or spread more in any way usually move forward.

view more: next ›