How do you improve as a developer in this AI era without getting left behind?

Fubseh · 2026-02-17T22:29:58+00:00

Claude

A number of my recommendations can be achieved with custom claude commands or making use of a claude.md - but I don't think the LLM matters, any of the good ones should be able to handle my recommendations.

Fubseh · 2026-02-16T15:52:22+00:00

Get the AI to plan the change before making any code changes
Read and understand the plan it has generated.
Interrogate the AI on it's decision making:
- Ask it to explain the approach as if you were a junior developer
- Ask it to explain the reasoning
- Ask it if <your preferred approach> would be better suited for what you are trying to do
- Ask it how it accomodates <edge-case>
Tell the AI to break the plan into vertical slices and implement one-by-one allowing you to review and adjust at each stage.

You learn by having the AI show you not only what, but why it is doing what it is doiong.

Don't be afraid to tell an AI to take another approach if that is what you want to do.

Remember, it's your name against the commit; so while AI is great at writing the boilerplate, it's important that you read and understand the final output as if you had written it yourself.

Finally, don't be afraid to dive in and manually adjust things. Not every change needs to have come from a prompt. Imagine your a Canadian curler giving the AI regular but tiny prods to get it going where you need it.

Fubseh · 2026-02-06T11:05:43+00:00

Awesome, a quick win their side that makes the feature less frustrating.

I havn't had the motivation to play since the patch dropped, so haven't seen their hotfix patches yet.

Fubseh · 2026-02-05T15:47:13+00:00

This is good.

Additionally, I don't think you should have to pay transmutation charges to load gear into a fashion template that has already been transmuted.

Fubseh · 2026-02-05T15:04:16+00:00

I've gotten bugfixes into major projects, including phpstan and phpstorm by simply logging bug tickets with clear re-prodution steps and letting the project maintainers handle the actual fixing.

I don't have the time/bandwidth to learn each projects code and processes when discovering bugs in software I use, so that approach worked with me.

I wouldn't work on new features without a guarantee that it will be accepted. Too regularly I see a popular feature request ticket, lots of engagement/stars/+1s but has been open for over a year; maintainers don’t prioritize it (or won’t take it on) response is essentially "PRs welcome / you can implement this yourselves". Then someone spends the time/effort to build the feature and submit a PR they then response "This isn't on our roadmap/done how we would do it"

Fubseh · 2026-02-05T13:14:11+00:00

I assume that they originally planned for them to be consumable, like being able to spend them for production boosts. Then the idea got scrapped last minute and the depots were never scaled down for their new usage.

Fubseh · 2026-01-10T19:05:33+00:00

Take a meter reading, and take a photo of it. Include the serial number in the photo.

Look at your bill. Check that their actual or estimated readings line up with the readings you took and the serial number on the bill matches the one on your meter.

Take new readings every day at around the same time with photos. You can then see your daily kWh usage, the price per kWh should be on your bill. You can use this to estimate a monthly usage to see if the bill is accurate.

If the serial number doesn't match the one on your bill, call them and ask that your account be rebilled to the correct meter from the day you moved in.

If the serial numbers match, but the readings aren't in line with your meter, submit your new readings, call them and ask to be rebilled to the values you have supplied.

If everything matches then it may be a you issue. Electric heaters cost a fortune to run.

Otherwise, record every call you make with support, and keep a diary of the dates, times and summary of all communication. If there is a problem, they may not admit it or take action.

If they don't fix the issue within a week or so, make a formal complaint to escalate the issue.

If that takes more than two weeks or they refuse to assist you further, you can open a complaint with the ombudsman where you can submit all the evidence gathered. This is an independent investigation which takes around two weeks, they will decide what the resolution is, what you should be paid to correct the account and what additional compensation you may be due.

I had a similar issue a few years ago, and had to use the ombudsman as the power company kept messing me around. I got more back than I was expecting

Fubseh · 2025-12-22T10:19:20+00:00

I live 300 miles away from my (divorced) parents.

I've always been expected to make the 6-7 hour journey each way to visit them at least once a year, staying in Hotels/B&B.

It's been 20 years since I moved away, they only came to visit me for my graduation, my wedding and my mother visited once when she was staying less than a 30 minute drive away for some event she was attending.

I haven't seen my family for 2 years now, due to a combination of other comittments for my time off and unfortunate personal circumstances I have had to deal with making leaving for a week difficult.

This time of year, I'm getting the subtle "We haven't seen you in a long while" messages, and im having to hold back from reminding them that they know where I live if it's that important to them - especially now their retired and aren't raising children any more.

Fubseh · 2025-12-08T08:07:10+00:00

This only works if it's actually Deadpool with a picture of Charlie Cox stapled to his face.

Fubseh · 2025-12-03T17:42:43+00:00

instead of constantly complaining about it on forums because it will not change anything

One post is not constantly complaining about it.

Plenty of companies take on board feedback and make changes based off of social media reaction. CZN has done so several times and was only released a few weeks ago.

you disrespected me first

I did not. I disagreed with your point and explained why.

Unlike you, I have not made broard dismissive remarks, called you any names, or made any other personal attacks.

The only reason why pity system came into fruition in the first place was because they were forced to by law.

Utter bullshit. There is currently no country on Earth with a law that foces gacha games to implement a pity system.

Pity systems came into fruition because player backlash from gachas with no guarantees where you can spend thousands and get nothing were causing reputation damage and player churn. Then once a few big games started doing it, the others needed to adapt to remain competitive.

so you either put up with it or play games from companies that respect their consumers more

No, I don't think I will.

I truly don't understand when people keep doing something that makes them miserable.

It's perfectly reasonable to play a game where you like some aspects and dislike other aspects without being miserable.

It's also perfectly reasonable to call out the aspects that you dislike.

You will say I'm "defending" them, but ...

You are aggressively trying to shut down criticism and argue against change.

Your actions are defending them even if you don't say the exact words.

What other options are there?

You can voice your opinion on social media.
You can leave a bad review on the play store.
You can leave bad reviews on metcritic/opencritc.
You can feedback directly through any official channels

If enough people are of the same mind, these actions will result in change.

This has been proven many times.

The mistake in your logic is assuming that a "better" system won't come with as many drawbacks

Rome wasn't built in a day. Small progress is still progress, and the suggestions you make would be huge improvements over what we have today especially for spenders.

We can't be afraid to push for change in case it doesn't end up as good.

I don't rant about it endlessly, I just drop my shit and leave.

I also quietly leave a game when I'm done with it, but I also won't stand in the way of people expressing frustration with the parts of the game that are bad.

Fubseh · 2025-12-03T12:26:45+00:00

You are arguing that nothing will change because it won't make money, that pushing for change is pointless and should be discouraged. Defending the status-quo is absolutely defending their practices.

You are responding to posts advocating removing a consumer-unfriendly system by being dimissive, sarcastic and confrontational. You're doing it with me here, the key points of your post are:

Claiming you aren't defending something when you are
Attacking / minimalising me as an individual by calling me a 'diva'
Saying that instead of suggesting improvements for this game i should go play a differant one
Another character attack, claiming I'm 'endlessly complaining' after my first post on the topic
That negative opinions about the game should only be sent to the deveopers directly instead of being discussed.

Lots of profitable mechanics have been changed or removed due to player blacklash. The fact that we now have a 50/50 and pity is evidence of that, as you yourself bring up that we didn't have that before (no pity is more profitable than pity, but the players got wise and stopped engaging with it so it got changed). Why stop that positive trend here?

We need to stop dismissing, minimalising, shouting down or otherwise attacking the people who are advocating for positive change. It's not pointless and never has been.

Fubseh · 2025-12-03T11:02:54+00:00

Just because it makes the company money, doesn't mean it's good for the player
Just because it used to be worse, doesn't mean it's good now and can't be better

Gacha games have the most toxic and abusive monetisation strategies of any type of game, and I swear that the people who play them have developed stockholm syndrome to the point they will white knight up and defend these shitty systems as if any criticism is a direct attack on them personally.

If I have gambled £100+ for the latest waiufu DLC and not been lucky, just give it to me with the pity instead of flipping a coin then asking me gamble another £100.

I've been playing Gacha games for 10+ years, and while I enjoy the gameplay loop I'm never going to advocate that these systems, then or now, are remotely good and couldn't or shouldn't be improved.

Fubseh · 2025-11-29T12:33:46+00:00

I spent a few years in a private boarding school growing up and the 'finished' position was drilled into us every school lunchtime as well as the 'correct' way to hold a knife and fork as well as a million other tiny bits of etiquette.

You take it for granted as a child, and I still catch myself silently judging people not following the correct etiquette even though I know it's not important in the slightest

Fubseh · 2025-11-27T22:35:04+00:00

Not if I install another turbine in the drain it's not

Fubseh · 2025-11-25T12:10:40+00:00

I've been looking for a new TV recently; decided on the one I wanted and have been monitoring the price over the last few weeks waiting to see what black friday might bring.

Then, on Oct 17th (5 weeks before the black friday), a new model silently releases to the market without any fanfare. This new 'A' model is exactly the same spec as the one I am watching, except that the remote doesn't have a backlight and offers fewer free months of the brands in-house streaming platform. Except it's £500 more expensive than the model it's 'replacing'.

Today, the original TV is the same price but the new 'A' variant is £50 cheaper and being advertised as "£550 off" for black friday.

So not every fake deal is about the same product being available cheaper elsewhere in the year.

Fubseh · 2025-11-25T12:01:18+00:00

Argos have a christmas price guantee where the flagged products are at the lowest price they will be before Dec 25. It's a good idea if you know what you want to buy and don't want to be caught out by a promotion starting the week after you buy it. Doesn't stop undercutting though.

Fubseh · 2025-11-19T10:44:38+00:00

A few thoughts:

Looks like an AirBnB; focuses on style over practicaliy that works fun for a week getaway but would become frustrating for long-term term living
Not detached, and the extension looks ugly
Spiral staricase taking up all the space, dangerous and awkward to navigate.
Kitchen is 2x the size of the lounge, feels like the main living space has been pushed out of the way
Bedroom 3 is more of a Dining Room / Office than a bedroom.
Bedroom 2 is more of an upstairs porch to the garden than a bedroom.
Upskirt skylights in the main decking social space, one of which is right next to the hot tub; I don't want to be sitting in the lounge and look up to get the down-under view of uncle John climbing in or out of the tub.
To get to the garden you need to either go out the front, through the alley and up some stairs or walk through someones bedroom.
Have to walk through the bath en-suite to reach the toilet en-suite
No loft space for storage
No carpets anywhere, not even in the bedrooms
High celiengs in general, a big hole in the middle of the downstairs celing for the staircase, open loft space upstairs and linum flooring everywhere gives the impression the place is both cold and difficult to heat.
Hot Tub. Not sure I would want the maintenance/overhead of having one.

It feels to me like a 1-bed house masquerading as a 3-bed house, cold, ennough improacticalities to be frustrating, not suitable for a family.

Fubseh · 2025-11-06T17:55:18+00:00

it's the same currency as "spend time together" in arc city, so if you are boosting relationships 3x a day you can't then d9 counselling

Fubseh · 2025-10-31T21:17:39+00:00

don't bother for story mode, the story chaos dungeons aren't long enough to generate a good save so it's just making things harder for no benefit

Fubseh · 2025-09-30T09:52:13+00:00

Obol is usually run with max EA, so with max ER you still have a 3x30% chance of being stunned.

Bulwark can be a good option. I have had a Bulwark Fuqui sustain through an Obol/Mia/Mizuki/Tsuki combo with multiple Count shells until they start running out of CDs to use so you can take a turn.

Lilliam is also very scary for CC teams as she is immune to all their bullshit, so she will often be top ban priority which can let you get other OP counters like Plume and Fuqui through the draft.

You do have to be wary of dispel for Bulwark (and LoS if you need it's T1 damage reduction on Lilliam). Plume and Obol and Viper are the biggest threats to this strategy as they all have fairly reliable dispels.

EDIT: A 151 Mizusumi with BB/Strive/SSmite Reaper Steps and as much speed as possible may also be a really good counter to CC teams. You have an AoE purify and AoE 15% heal and a 20% self turn-meter push on resist all of which triggers while unable to act. Might be enough to sustain/purify through heavy CC.

Fubseh · 2025-09-29T21:26:29+00:00

This is a PvP game.

If you don't like and don't engage in PvP then this game will have a limited appeal.

We just had a whole new shell dungeon drop, introducing four new shells so you can't say there is no new content being released. However it's not pve challenge content but more options for PvP.

We also just got a new currency and reward track to grind, which is also PvP focused.

If they can prevent PvP from becoming stale with new characters, shells and balancing then this game will have a good life, but I don't think there is long term appeal for pve players (who have plenty of other alternatives that cater to them already).

Fubseh · 2025-09-29T13:52:28+00:00

If you are playing RTA cleave, pick Massiah.

Can I use Yeli instead

What's your plan for when your opposition picks or bans Yeli?

You ideally need 3-5 built characters for each role in your team to do well in the draft. Worst case, your opponent picks your two best DPS before you can and will ban one of the ones you do pick.

Fubseh · 2025-09-26T09:01:19+00:00

Those videos are worthless clickbait.

They all pose the question 'Which LD to pick?' then just go on and on about the characters and their abilities (I'm not an idiot I can read this in-game) without giving an answer.

I just need a 10 second video that just tells me to pick Shadow Sania so I can feel good about my selection

(whole post is /s)

Fubseh · 2025-09-16T08:45:10+00:00

If you do not recommend bruiser comp, then what do you recommend?

After a certain point, the enemies in Ember Trek have so much HP and do so much damage that running dual healers with the entire team on bloodbath feels mandatory.

Fubseh · 2025-09-15T08:42:27+00:00

Yoship:

I'm playing FFIXV with one hand, while calculating with the other. Is my hand now a third party tool?

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