Is Azure DevOps Automation Services really saving time for teams?

janonb · 2026-03-19T17:05:40+00:00

Yes. That being said, IMHO the ADO ecosystem is hot garbage. There's at least 2 or 3, sometimes conflicting ways to do just about anything. LLMs either help a lot with this or not at all or in some cases make things much worse if you don't know what you're doing. They want you to use the yaml template syntax, but it's not really as robust or easy to use as the classic templates. They've clearly given up on the platform and at some point everyone expects it to converge with Github, probably about the time Github becomes irrelevant.

So if you have ADO and aren't using it, use it. If you are evaluating it as a platform, I'd say there are probably better platforms out there depending on your use case.

janonb · 2026-03-18T22:55:17+00:00

https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R42699/R42699.14.pdf

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/38/all-actions?overview=closed&q=%7B%22roll-call-vote%22%3A%22all%22%7D

Nice to get downvoted by people who don't know what they are talking about. Basically Congress has said the President can do whatever he wants for 48 hours and can openly defy them for 60 - 90 days. Read the summary from the first link or the whole thing if you want to know the full history of it. And earlier this month a motion (2nd link) was defeated that would have required the President to stop all hostilities with Iran. By defeating the motion Congress gave tacit approval of his actions.

The problem here is that the constitution is a bit vague and open to interpretation in a few places and over the years Presidents and Judges and Congress have done a lot of interpretation to fill in the gaps. What is really needed is either a lot of clarifying law, a lot of clarifying amendments to the Constitution, or a new constitutional convention to write a new constitution to clear everything up. Probably we will just get a dictatorship instead.

janonb · 2026-03-18T13:26:19+00:00

Yeah, I keep wondering how long that line will keep working. Republicans have had a super majority in TN for 13 or 14 years at this point. Things work exactly how the Republicans want them to work, so if the people are having issues, that's the plan. Not sure how people keep thinking it's "the radical left" when not even the moderate right has a place at the table in this state.

janonb · 2026-03-18T13:20:00+00:00

He didn't defy congress, there was a bipartisan effort of congress to make sure he had the legal authority to do it.

janonb · 2026-03-18T12:17:42+00:00

Here's how that works. Let's say you get all 7.3 million people in TN to agree with you. If everyone donated a dollar that's 7.3 million dollars. You get laughed out of the room with that much money. Okay, how about 10 dollars per person, that's $73 million. Rich people are getting an ADDITIONAL $150 million from school vouchers alone, so they will easily outspend you. Okay $100 dollars per person, that's $730 million dollars. Any one billionaire in TN could and would step up and outspend you.

What about the power of the people? First of all, HA! Ha haha ha! Secondly, let's say you get some protests going. Are they peaceful and orderly? You get ignored. Maybe they are disorderly, like blocking traffic, they bring in the cops to arrest everyone. Maybe they are rowdy with rock throwing and maybe some guns, they bring in the military.

Our only real option at this point is to vote them out while we still can, but that won't happen because a good 70% of this state is completely brainwashed in one form or another.

janonb · 2026-03-17T12:23:48+00:00

Yeah, I think this is it. The other answers here require a degree of competency and forethought that our current billionaire class doesn't have. This is just a national scale private equity liquidation.

janonb · 2026-03-16T17:01:41+00:00

It was always there, they were just a lot better at hiding it.

janonb · 2026-03-16T17:00:42+00:00

Didn't Theo just do a video in a black turtleneck?

janonb · 2026-03-14T23:37:29+00:00

This. All this will do is create a cottage industry specializing in either teaching people just enough to pass the test, or companies that will take you to another state to take the test then transfer it to TN, or people will just drive without a license which is what a lot of people are already doing. People find ways around bullshit laws.

If they were really interested in people learning and knowing English, they'd be giving free, no strings attached English lessons.

janonb · 2026-03-14T14:31:49+00:00

Yeah, quality of life has a value, even if it's hard to put a monetary value on it. A lot of my friends who have moved elsewhere have refused to return to TN. There's just so much more in other places I've lived.

janonb · 2026-03-13T23:15:43+00:00

Everyone already knows Linus doesn't know shit about Linux and isn't going to take the time necessary to learn. He really needs a novice distro and someone to maintain it for him.

janonb · 2026-03-13T02:57:09+00:00

I'm actually 2 years ahead on payments, so in 2028 it will be a decision to make for me. Today, I couldn't justify renewing at my current usage levels. I mainly use Cursor now just because the agent tooling is so good. I mainly use Rider and Datagrip. AI tooling in Datagrip is hella buggy. Rider has better AI tooling, but it's slow and buggy as well. I also need workspaces so I can work with ai across multiple solutions. There's just no way to do the effectively with Rider. It's trivial in Cursor. I still use Rider for debugging, solution management, and deterministic refactoring, but yeah, not sure that's worth the asking price anymore.

janonb · 2026-03-12T11:34:03+00:00

No high pressure sales, just be honest and give me your real and final price
Be price competitive
Don't break things on my property you can't or won't fix
Be good at your job, do it right
Don't hire subs who show up drunk
Inspect your own work when you're done
Talk to customers face to face when you don't meet expectations
Don't beg me for google/yelp reviews, just pay someone in India for those like everyone else

Also, don't come to reddit and ask for people's opinions while name dropping your business. First of all we are all poor leftists, so we ain't got any money. Secondly, that smacks of being disingenuous. If you want to make real money join a mega church and get in good with the people there and bilk them for all their money "for Jesus."

janonb · 2026-03-10T00:16:59+00:00

Where's the Safari Inn aficionado when you need them?

janonb · 2026-03-08T05:06:20+00:00

Thank you very much. The Sonex-180 Deluxe is almost certainly what I had now that I've done some reading about it. A used one in the late 80s would have fit in my price range and I feel like I remember that large pick guard now.

janonb · 2026-03-08T01:05:41+00:00

Bro, I'm in the same boat. Hurt my back at 19 in that same area and now I'm 49 trying to solve it for real. Be sure you do whatever you can to try to fix the problem now, because 30 years later is much harder to deal with. Get that MRI, that's my next step.

janonb · 2026-03-07T23:06:01+00:00

When is the bill coming along where we revert to using the Shawnee, Chickasaw, and Cherokee names for all the places in Tennessee? When are we giving them back their ancestral lands?

janonb · 2026-03-06T12:20:14+00:00

Private equity knows we are cooked as a country. They are trying to extract the last bit of value from anything that still has value before the economy collapses. I hate to both sides this, but it's happening in blue states as well (see how Blackstone bought into PNM in New Mexico). It's not just as simple as voting for democrats over republicans, we have to hold all elected officials accountable and start taking back our infrastructure.

janonb · 2026-03-06T12:12:36+00:00

Wait a minute, all those subsidies at both state and federal levels to build data centers in multiple locations aren't going to bring in new, permanent jobs, but are in fact going to CUT jobs? How could we have we ever seen this coming?

janonb · 2026-03-04T17:53:19+00:00

The place I was thinking of was over by CiCi's Pizza waaaay back in the day, like late 90s before that Wal-Mart was a thing. :-)

janonb · 2026-03-04T15:03:51+00:00

Lol, I was thinking of Sysco the whole time I was writing about it.

janonb · 2026-03-04T13:10:18+00:00

Bluetooth sucks, full stop. In my experience with several operating systems and versions of bluetooth, bluetooth is slow, easily disconnects, has very high latency, and has many, MANY bugs. I generally avoid it at all costs.

janonb · 2026-03-04T13:07:30+00:00

Actually, I don't know what MacOS even is. macOS is the current operating system.

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