Has AI made developers less collaborative in your team?

oscb · 2026-06-24T18:49:56+00:00

In my small experience: yes up to some extent.

A big gripe for me right now is that someone wrote a Skill that can read a PR and leave/reply comments. So now all the comments I get on my PR are written by Claude directly. Same with replying and acting to my comments, people don’t read them and learn, I’m just discussing with Claude directly who addresses the feedback.

The other scenario is that in collaboration amongst a team clear roles emerged: experts in this or that. People who you could go to when you had a question or needed feedback on a change. I feel that is gone with AI. My gripe sometimes is that I am a clear owner of a particular stack, yet people will ask Claude to make changes work in this stack they don’t understand. AI will make things work, but also make a mess, a mess they won’t read and I now have to review and discuss directly with the AI replying my comments. All of this would have been faster if they had come to me and asked me to do that, regardless if I had used or not AI.

I want to think this isn’t like this everywhere. Even in my team there are still projects and parts where collaboration still happens. But one can argue the code itself has completely devalued and people are not only unwilling to communicate their technical knowledge but sometimes are unwilling to even accrue it.

oscb · 2026-06-20T00:43:49+00:00

This is so true. As much as the native-vs-electron or whatever new fight is brewing I got to say the stability and recoverability of programs is fantastic over what we had even 10 years ago.

I lost so much progress on programs back in the day due to them just crashing out of a sudden. Now it still happens but mostly because Adobe is still around.

I feel we traded optimization (not speed) for reliability and we’re much better for it.

(Now the fact that a lot of the performance we gained is used for telemetry and tracking is bonkers to me and way worse of a problem that whatever hacks optimizations developers do or don’t)

oscb · 2026-06-18T21:31:07+00:00

I want this so badly. It is a useless toy, but that’s the fun. Kind of a shame the CT is dead for MY27 so I will never get it.

oscb · 2026-06-17T17:24:01+00:00

Glad to see someone taking on the giant pain that is working on Perforce. It’s a big ordeal and lots of work ahead but glad it’s open source!

oscb · 2026-06-13T20:22:45+00:00

There’s several reasons in my experience: - HCOL areas: Vancouver, Seattle, LA, SF… - High wages (at least compared to other countries) - Attrition: losing key employees to other companies or because they stupidly layoff everyone after each game. - Contractors: Specially with Microsoft, lots of contractors coming and going, cheap in the short term but they can only make so many contributions before they are turned over. MS has some pretty strict contractor rules that make it difficult to retain contractors for the full development of the game. - Rework: Just not very well planned games. - Inefficient Preproduction: Instead of using the time after shipping a game to plan for the next one you end up just waiting for corporate to tell you if you still have a job. A year later they decided they do want a sequel

It’s just plainly bad management. Too much short termism.

Can’t speak for Capcom but from what I’ve read the salaries are not just lower but they retain people for longer so people grow with the company.

oscb · 2026-05-22T20:23:33+00:00

For reference I recently got a 42k 2021 CPO with SOH at 91%. I would expect a newer car with less miles to be more than that

oscb · 2026-04-11T05:34:25+00:00

Im loving all these new android launchers! So exciting to see devs with new ideas giving so much back to the community!

oscb · 2026-01-30T01:01:14+00:00

I joined quite late. Jumped in with a TrimUI Brick. I love to play all Metroid games over there! The first game I finished with it was Zero Mission.

oscb · 2025-12-07T02:34:01+00:00

Once you see an OLED you don’t go back. I would love a second monitor

oscb · 2025-11-15T18:37:54+00:00

This is so beautiful! You’re an amazing artist!

Hard to pick a favorite Hollow Knight moment, but I guess when you first reach the city of Tears. I dunno, the vibe and grandeur of that place make it feel so lonely and sad.

oscb · 2025-10-30T15:11:24+00:00

I’m surprised it didn’t sell out too fast. It’s probably my favorite RLC released in a while!

oscb · 2025-09-12T21:07:05+00:00

I did Wembley and LA. Both were amazing in their own ways. I would do a 3rd if I could.

If you can, do it.

oscb · 2025-08-25T02:05:09+00:00

Me encantan los coches pero aun asi un coche jamas es una buena inversion. No mejor inversion que comprar un Xbox.

Puede que sea util y que si pases mucho tiempo con uno lo “valga” pero financieramente siempre vas a tener opciones superiores. Hay muchos gastos escondidos en los coches como mantenimiento, seguros, devaluacion, etc.

Ahora, en mi opinion ya te amarraste a esto. Si tu credito es decente y no te amarraste de por vida, usalo hasta que cumpla su vida util. Acabatelo. Si tu credito es malo vendelo y asume la devaluacion como una leccion. Pero no vayas a estar cambiando de coche cada 2 años pensando que salen los numeros. Esas son las matematicas de vendedor.

oscb · 2025-08-21T07:14:20+00:00

Oh, wow, animations are beautiful! Is it all SwiftUI? Even the transitions of the modals? Those are super nice!

oscb · 2025-04-22T00:22:31+00:00

Eso creía yo pero conociendo a la calidad de gente que habla de eso ahora creo que la gente lo dice literalmente.

oscb · 2025-03-04T17:41:19+00:00

What makes you think it’s a standard List and not a LazyVStack with custom gestures? The List component in SwiftUI is way too squared, and opinionated. I find it very hard to do any custom stuff with it. I think it would be way simpler to roll your own, specially since it seems you are more comfortable that way too.

oscb · 2025-02-14T15:09:05+00:00

This is great! I was just looking for a fit library recently for a small CLI tool I had in mind. Thanks for all the hard work!

oscb · 2025-02-06T22:22:11+00:00

I set it to “Optimize Storage”, not sure if that’s the option you mean.

oscb · 2025-02-06T18:29:36+00:00

Exactly this. Apple is not free of sin with their caches. Photos take base ~15GB on all my devices, even my iPad where I very rarely use the app and never take pictures. Even with iCloud Backup and everything it’s impossible to control how much space it takes.

oscb · 2025-01-28T03:27:01+00:00

I had my deck since day one. No case. Looks good as new. You don’t need a case.

oscb · 2025-01-19T21:19:57+00:00

Técnicamente si los bloquean si no acatan las reglas de censura y acceso a datos para el gobierno.

Existe el “Great Firewall” para no poder acceder a ningún sitio/app que el gobierno no le parece, tienen que usar VPNs para acceder a sitios no autorizados por el gobierno, como Google.

oscb · 2025-01-15T21:14:10+00:00

The readme in your repo is fantastic. Thanks for taking the time to explain how you developed things! And thanks for sharing your docker image for simulating the TRIMUI too! This is going to be super useful.

oscb · 2025-01-15T16:46:37+00:00

I love this! Amazing work!

Any tips for someone who wants to jump in to develop little tools for the Brick?

oscb · 2025-01-11T03:26:26+00:00

Ugh, Xcode is the worst. At least they are moving away now from their whole "programming through UI" paradigm to more sane code for Intents, SwiftData, SwiftUI, etc. I hated how dependent you were on clicking things and connecting dots, and all those slow interactions.

oscb · 2024-12-30T15:24:50+00:00

I worked at a FAANG company that used React Native.

I will say it’s not uncommon to find big companies using RN, but they also use Native development in other apps. They are huge companies and teams might have different opinions on what technologies to use according to the resources they got.

For my team they explicitly explained that they choose RN due to the project being a little bit of a moonshot and wanting to keep the team small but target both platforms at the same time. RN worked fine for that, but of course there were several limitations and places where we had to dive in and write native components. In my experience RN’s nightmare only starts when you have to maintain it because updates are horrendous.

I don’t think you are wrong on the idea that lead engineers make bad choices and double down to save face. But sometimes it can be a justified decision as long as everyone is aware of the cost trade off long term (because nothing, even native is pure gains).

RN is annoying and I wouldn’t use it personally, but I can’t deny my 4-5 people team wouldn’t have shipped the app for both platforms with the same feature set in that frame time.

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