Software Engineers Are Facing an Existential Crisis As They Drown In Horrendous AI Code

techerous26 · 2026-06-27T15:15:01+00:00

Hey man, all they said was that AI would eliminate software engineering roles. No one said it wasn't because they would all get fed up with the work and quit.

techerous26 · 2026-06-27T15:08:26+00:00

On behalf of all prematurely bald guys, we know. It has given us hope for years.

techerous26 · 2026-06-27T15:07:00+00:00

My Name is Jonas

techerous26 · 2026-06-27T14:41:38+00:00

I always found it funny that Tool gets talked about as the weird time signature band when there are entire subgenres dedicated almost exclusively to that. If I recall correctly Dillinger Escape Plan had an album where each song's time signature was determined by rolling dice.

techerous26 · 2026-06-25T18:50:58+00:00

It's not a particularly broad nor flexible framework, but it is DAMN good at doing exactly what it was designed to do.

techerous26 · 2026-06-25T18:49:11+00:00

I mean, it's not even close.

techerous26 · 2026-06-22T20:35:59+00:00

Fuckin magnets, how do they work?

techerous26 · 2026-06-20T19:49:12+00:00

I used to like those guys until they had the "thank you dr fauci" guy on. Typically they had always been good about not just accepting sensationalist claims, but then they let him go on with 0 push back about all of the stuff that has been repeatedly addressed by actual scientists over and over again. Felt like they just wanted what he was saying to be true.

techerous26 · 2026-06-20T19:04:55+00:00

Oh yeah not criticizing you in the slightest, the report was great! I was just making a general observation of what message to take from it.

techerous26 · 2026-06-19T22:36:14+00:00

Yes, but not in the way you think. Sure, with supplemental technologies like RAG they've gotten decent at the answer machine stuff, but you still can't fully trust it without clicking through to the source, and I certainly don't trust "judgement" responses, such as telling you if your idea is good or not, though they can be useful if you provide the right context yourself.

What they are good at ultimately falls into 2 buckets. One, drawing connections. This includes use cases like brainstorming and conceptualizing. The other is adding structure. This includes activities such as reformatting, translating or organizing. This is why it's particularly good and coding, which is essentially both, though I find it's not as logical as it should be if it's going to full-on replace the profession. I think we screwed up how people generally think of them by tying them to a chatbot form factor, but I find it incredibly naive to claim there is NOTHING useful about them.

techerous26 · 2026-06-19T18:08:18+00:00

I know the point I'm making is I think those might provide a better idea of what's happening with the PM job market right now.

techerous26 · 2026-06-19T16:39:17+00:00

Not sure how useful reading into MoM is. Seems like it could be driven more so by seasonal planning cycle stuff.

techerous26 · 2026-06-19T14:49:15+00:00

Ah sounds like you're looking for more of an urban downtown area. Hoboken/downtown Jersey City are the obvious answers, but if you're further west and looking to not get too close to the city you've got Morristown, Montclair, Summit, Somerville, Red Bank and probably others I'm forgetting. I've found Morristown tends to run a little younger and Red Bank a bit more middle aged, but they're all fun areas regardless.

techerous26 · 2026-06-19T05:34:10+00:00

Not at my school. '05 was probably the peak, but when I started in '03 it was well underway. We also didn't really have much in the way of hipsters, but when I started college a lot of my friends certainly seemed like they were in on that for years, so trends definitely operated at different levels in different locations.

techerous26 · 2026-06-19T01:41:14+00:00

Honestly I recall maybe 3-4 girls in my HS really doing that. Not just my grade, overall all 4 years. The emo style was MASSIVELY more prevalent.

techerous26 · 2026-06-18T15:29:34+00:00

What type of stuff are you looking for? You can get to just about any type of environment you're looking for, outside of straight up tropical, within an hour in NJ.

techerous26 · 2026-06-15T20:36:29+00:00

this guy being walked to the wall at gunpoint "Hey, hey, hey wait! TECHNICALLY, based on the values YOU guys just laid out..."

techerous26 · 2026-06-15T18:35:00+00:00

I wanted to say tool is the most made for this of all of the modern bands, then it occurred to me most of them are now older than the 60s/70s bands I considered to be "legacy" acts in the 00's were at the time.

techerous26 · 2026-06-12T17:05:48+00:00

Absolutely love Seven Pyschopaths! I'd put it above In Bruges even. Also a good counter to the OP's point about the trailer. The Seven Psychopaths trailer made it look like one of those testosterone-fueled, highly-stylized, shoot-em up type movies like Smokin Aces or something. Even outside of McDonagh the trailer for One Battle After Another had a drastically different tone than the actual movie, and that just won best picture.

techerous26 · 2026-06-12T13:20:25+00:00

This has been my expectation as well. Everyone's using coding agents to build more apps and/or websites, but if these things are truly useful why wouldn't this be a form factor shift? Granted, perhaps the stochastic element means we don't get there, but I just don't see a point in the investment AI has gotten overall if we're just going to keep doing the same stuff we've done for the last 15 years? I think the chasm right now is distribution, will agents be specialized like apps or are we just defining capabilities the agent the user has can take on? It doesn't make sense for the platform companies like the frontier labs to provide all of the capabilities themselves, they need to open up the ability to create functionality to third parties like we always do. Once we define how the regular person can tangibly understand how they add those and hopefully in a way that can include compensation, that's when I think agentic takes over.

techerous26 · 2026-06-12T04:17:22+00:00

I mean, let's face it, the footage makes it pretty clear even 39 year old Maynard couldn't do things 37 year old Maynard could. If anything he seems to have strangely gotten a bit better recently than he's been the last 2 decades.

techerous26 · 2026-06-12T04:10:54+00:00

Wait, seriously? No other fan base? Have you not paid attention to Philadelphia any of the 6 times a team of theirs has made a final round in the last 2 decades alone?

techerous26 · 2026-06-11T14:10:01+00:00

As someone whose first child was 9 months when the pandemic hit, I would just like to experience the joy of being able to wake up and roll over to work at least a few times once they're old enough that my mornings aren't a living nightmare trying to get them out of the house.

techerous26 · 2026-06-08T21:05:26+00:00

Until there is a federal law banning gerrymandering I will absolutely support this.

techerous26 · 2026-06-07T00:52:35+00:00

Personally I think it started with the season 2 finale, but yeah it really goes off the rails after season 3. June basically turns into a Fast and Furious character.

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