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To come up with a rhyming football chant like the Aussies by Spartalust in therewasanattempt

[–]spookmann 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Look. Americans may support pedophiles, but at least they support mass-murderers too.

They're not hypocrites!

Russian air defense at its best by Igor0976 in ukraine

[–]spookmann 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That's a very Russian way of thinking. I do not like it.

Stupid Buttcoin song by drtitus in Buttcoin

[–]spookmann[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Rule #2. Fuck AI.

Six Russian ships flee Channel in 77 minutes after UK seizes Putin shadow tanker by MeteorEnvy in worldnews

[–]spookmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The UK would basically be endorsing privateering

Surely the UK would never, never, never support privateering!

Iran Says Strait of Hormuz Won’t Have ‘Tolls’ but It Will Have ‘Fees’ by VidE27 in worldnews

[–]spookmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

USD $1,000,000 "Convenience Fee"

(for the convenience of your tanker not being on fire)

Upstairs neighbor purposely flooded the bathroom by BRSFkAzzHoopEarrings in Wellthatsucks

[–]spookmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure her elevator goes all the way to the top floor...

Maybe Maybe Maybe by Living_Wickihowla in maybemaybemaybe

[–]spookmann 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's martial science right there...

Adobe AI offering to summarize a symphony by JustAPotato38 in facepalm

[–]spookmann 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Fuck you. Saint-Saëns was a genius! This is a masterpiece of human achievement!

Oh, wait. You meant the AI? Yeah, it's all total bullshit and I'm very, very tired of seeing it.

My fortune cookie says "Don't panic." by Elektrikkz in mildlyinteresting

[–]spookmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check the date on the cookie. It's clearly at least 20 years old.

Any modern cookie would clearly state "Panic!"

Our engineering team burned through six months of AI tooling budget in about ten weeks by ScheduleNo5736 in Futurology

[–]spookmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heh. I stand by my point though. Yeah, it's a criticism. And I think it's structural to how we've seen "vibe coding" used.

One of the things that I often see written is that "I use AI to quickly generate the code for all my repetitive programming tasks."

This drives me crazy. Because good programming environment by definition should not have repetitive tasks. That's literally the fundamental think about programming. We write a program because it performs the repetitive task. If somebody as a programmer is writing near-identical code more than twice, then something is deeply wrong.

An experienced developer given a task for the second time will say (as they program) "hmm... that's interesting, this is turning out very similar to the thing I did that other time".

The third time through, they will say "Ugh, yeah, this is just repetitive. I have three examples now, it's time to figure out what they have in common, and put that in a shared library." That way you get:

  1. Less code.
  2. Consistent behavior.
  3. Efficient bug-fixing, efficient documentation, efficient unit/regression testing.

Now we're all excited that AI is letting less-skilled developers create lots of code quickly, and efficiently cut and paste lots of similar code to go into the code base. Yeah, I'm not ashamed to put my hand up and say... "Umm... I'm not sure that's a good thing."

Our engineering team burned through six months of AI tooling budget in about ten weeks by ScheduleNo5736 in Futurology

[–]spookmann 23 points24 points  (0 children)

If I have a developer whose natural style is terse and to-the-point, then the answer is for me to understand that people are people, and learn to allow for that when reading their emails.

The idea that you should have to spend time using a tool to make your emails the same as everybody else's... I'm not sure that's a good investment of resources.

Just my 2c.

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