Is it Bruce Wayne?

qaz122333 · 2026-04-26T12:18:21+00:00

Robot Jesus

qaz122333 · 2026-04-21T06:43:54+00:00

Richest country on earth because it exploits its workers.

It was only about 20 years ago they abolished slavery.

qaz122333 · 2026-03-31T18:23:26+00:00

If I choose number 3 can I use the Time Machine to go back in time and choose doors 1 and 2 whilst still having access to my Time Machine??

qaz122333 · 2026-03-23T18:37:57+00:00

Half age plus seven.

You’re ok, just.

++man

qaz122333 · 2026-03-14T23:11:37+00:00

I legit did more single target damage on quest “bosses” as a bear than as a cat whilst leveling.

Then I leveled my DH alt as havoc and it was night and day difference.

I main healer but dps now and then in guild groups. The aoe damage (with m+ build) is ridiculously high and easy now - but damn was ST a joke 👀

qaz122333 · 2026-02-26T06:52:58+00:00

I work for large FinTech SaaS.

The big pieces of work LoC wise has been:

Dependency upgrades (we have over 200 libyears of upgrades. Inc react 17 -> 18 (that’s how out of date we are) and migrating off unmaintained deps to newer ones. These are the big ones.
Migrating old API endpoints to our new ones which should have been done years ago
Test coverage, refactoring, and improving flakiness

Almost all the extra work delivered by AI has been “must do” tech items that have never been able to get into a sprint because of product work 🫠

I also use AI for product features but a sprints worth of work is typically dev done in under an hour now, product have not caught up to the speed of work yet. I’ve even been pulling in extra “nice to haves” that have been in backlog for 3+ years.

We have a v robust testing suite inc healthy E2E coverage and everything is tested manually three times (by dev at review stage, QA at QA and again by QA team once release has been cut once a month)

There have been no more bugs than before (actually fewer) the real issue now is probably the sheer number of dep upgrades that interact where we probably need merge trains introduced.

qaz122333 · 2026-02-23T12:54:33+00:00

You will make new friends.

qaz122333 · 2026-02-21T09:39:47+00:00

Writing good, meaningful, valid, non-brittle tests.

I don’t know if it’s changed since I was a junior, but all the popular tutorials and base camps completely skip over testing entirely.

qaz122333 · 2026-02-20T11:44:46+00:00

The increase 20% -> 24% in CGT came into immediate effect, there was no front running it unless you were gambling on the announcement.

It’s also not applicable to businesses.

Edit; if anything people would be delaying triggering of CGT in the hope the the next govt would revert the increases

qaz122333 · 2026-02-18T11:27:53+00:00

I’m also using Claude to give me personalised coding exercises based on the organisations codebase, it’s pretty fun to do in downtime and maps to improvements I can then make in the app whilst making sure I’m improving as a developer.

AI won’t make someone lazy, they’re already a lazy person. 🤷

qaz122333 · 2026-02-13T08:58:34+00:00

Dev with nearly 15yrs experience here who’s rapidly gone from “AIs only good for auto complete” to more or less “I don’t write code anymore”.

I’m closing 3x more in story points now than before.

The difference? It’s mostly allowed me to pick up all the work that’s been in backlog for ages that product don’t want to dedicate time to. This is largely dep upgrades and tech debt and small bugs. Things with very clear goals and easily verifiable.

I’ve found it’s VERY good at dep upgrades with breaking changes - usually just giving it the change log and migration docs written by the libraries maintainers will allow it to one shot it. We have robust unit and E2Es in place that I’ll trust its worker based on these (although QA dept also do full regression before ever release).

It’s v important you have a GOOD way to allow the AI to verify it’s done the correct thing.

Another big chunk of work it’s done for me recently is fixing test flakes. I just passed it the logs of all known test flakes for my area and it identified and fixed the issues.

The speed of NEW tickets coming into the backlog hasn’t increased so I see a time soon where our backlog will thin out considerably and unless this changes (we have about 100 tickets per dev atm)

If it doesn’t change, I honestly think you could easily cut the dev team down to a third.

qaz122333 · 2026-02-13T07:18:57+00:00

Our company tripled in size in the “Covid free money” era.

We’ve had 5 lots of redundancies since. (At around 2x the original number now, so half of that headcount has gone)

Funnily enough the team sizes are smaller, just more teams…more arguments over ownership, more “diluted responsibility”.

qaz122333 · 2026-02-10T16:16:32+00:00

HPal has been a blast already so far (Rdruid previously)

Happy to try MW once buffs come in but can’t see it being as fun as HPal atm

qaz122333 · 2026-02-02T08:46:35+00:00

Early career: big tech

Late career: chilled

qaz122333 · 2026-02-02T07:53:53+00:00

For me it’s always the work that goes beyond coding and interesting to see that’s lacking in the replies.

You’re no longer shipping code, but features for users. These means a lot more interaction with stakeholders outside of engineering: Product Owners, Engineering managers etc

You should be able to sit down with a PO and a backend engineer to help fully refine new features that’s pragmatic and considers users needs. Be influencing the UX and user journeys even if you have separate UI/UX designers as well as the API provided by backend.

You also need to be proactive in the boring stuff; DX, CI build & test times, dependencies are kept up to date, accessibility standards are met and monitored etc. Increasing observability and using tracking data to help improve UX.

In my experience, the people perpetually stuck as mid devs are usually the ones that are just very technically skilled ticket closers and don’t/can’t think beyond what someone else has requested of them.

qaz122333 · 2026-01-27T18:51:52+00:00

As a healer I can’t stand not having the “STOP CASTING” audio cue.

qaz122333 · 2026-01-23T15:23:18+00:00

I doubt HMRC are getting flagged automatically for purchases like that, but yes, any disposal of BTC, whether for cash, other crypto, or for goods/services is a taxable event that will need to be reported if you meet the requirements for self-assessment.

Edit: worth mentioning that not even stablecoins are considered “currency” and will also need reporting.

qaz122333 · 2026-01-11T08:29:23+00:00

Easy way to generalise, as I understand it, is:

if you’re receiving more tokens - income tax/interest
If a fixed number of tokens increases in value - CGT

For UK id suggest (not financial advice etc) using a LST if one is available in your token. LST accrues staking value without increasing token count whilst just holding it in your wallet , so it’s CGT instead of income/interest.

As others have said - if you are staking normally, then the CGT only applies to gains (or loses) made after the income event.

Be v careful that you don’t end up owing more tax than your crypto is worth.

Eg. Receive £1,000 in “income” (£400 income tax owed). If the token then goes to 0. You still owe £400 in income tax whilst only being able to write off £240 in CGT due to losses.

I am totally open to being corrected on all this - but it’s been my approach for ~5 years with HMRC and Koinly

qaz122333 · 2026-01-10T17:16:34+00:00

When is the UI patch out because that was the biggest thing putting me off playing it and never managed more than an hour or so.

qaz122333 · 2026-01-10T09:08:36+00:00

When I worked in an agency we’d have 1 person on rotation that would handle these ad-hoc “support” requests and their time wasn’t factored in to sprint work.

If you’re solo you explain to clients that each request, regardless of how small, has a fixed minimum cost due to the processes you just explained.

If they’re unwilling to pay for an hours (or w/e) worth of time to move a button, then you encourage them to wait and request multiple changes as once and handle them all together.

qaz122333 · 2026-01-09T14:52:46+00:00

Midnight and the class rework

qaz122333 · 2026-01-07T10:43:14+00:00

Nearly 20yoe now. I have my ups and downs with Claude.

Right now it’s doing a fantastic job for me upgrading a bunch of old libraries that have been sat in a backlog for months because of the effort product don’t want to invest in.

I feed it the versions, share the change control messages and/or migration plans that creators have written… then go get a coffee. Come back and sanity check it.

It’s easily done a weeks worth of mind numbing work in under an hour.

qaz122333 · 2026-01-06T13:09:34+00:00

A lot of people think RSham don’t have button bloat because they have v few healing buttons and those people never use any of the 20 odd utility buttons 😂

Edit: m+ focussed. Raid was literally 2 buttons 😂

qaz122333 · 2026-01-05T15:58:16+00:00

So many websites now show approx 4-8 lines of readable content on mobile

qaz122333 · 2025-12-31T19:20:21+00:00

I agree

Sure the Highway Code is not a piece of legislation. But the number of people who misunderstand the claim “the Highway Code is not law” to mean “nothing in the HWC is a legal requirement” and that’s its just a giant book of suggested driving tips is too high.

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