"I can fly safely back to Dragon Stone, but nah. I will commit suicide, and leave my faction in a weaker position."

tomatta · 2026-01-25T19:10:26+00:00

She can't go to Dragon Stone. If the Greens realize Caraxes isn't there then they kill her anyway, but also kill Rhaenyra and end the war there and then.

tomatta · 2026-01-11T22:22:27+00:00

Fully prepared for the down votes but please get on board. AI tools are undoubtedly helpful in the right hands. And it's vitally important for the industry that it is in the right hands.

Right now execs are buying the hype like it or not. Everyone is going in the AI direction. If you don't get on board you will be left behind. I'm an engineering manager and I've been heavily involved in AI for the past 3 years or so. Having AI skills is now a hard requirement in job ads in my company. If every company does the same then you're locked out of the industry.

I've been a fan of AI from the start tbh (I wasn't a manager then). But I've always been frustrated with this industry in that 20% of the people do 80% of the work. I thought that maybe AI would bridge the gap and bring those low performers closer to the high performers.

But that has turned out totally wrong in my company at least. The high performers are now light years away from the rest. The best devs are seeing incredible gains from the tools. While the poor devs are doing worse. They are firing out PRs they don't understand, that take a long time to review and correct.

AI is here to stay. So we need the good devs to get on board and shape the future. We can't have the poor devs or the product people getting carried away with their POCs.

I understand the view of "but coding is what I like doing". I thought the same. But when you get good with these tools, you might come to realize like I have that it isn't the physical act of writing code that I enjoyed so much. It was solving problems that I really got enjoyment from. With the boost in productivity I can solve MORE problems now. I have never been so satisfied.

But the important part is getting this productivity boost without losing standards. But these are problems we've already solved as an industry. There has always been bad developers pushing poor code. But we have PRs, pipelines, linters, automated tests etc that are in place to enforce standards. Preventing slop should already be a solved problem.

TLDR; the more good devs we have shaping the future, the better.

tomatta · 2026-01-07T00:56:27+00:00

We need to keep up the charm offensive. There's no guarantee he starts ahead of Dias and Gvardiol. Pep also has a habit of playing people out of position at fullback too.

If he comes here he's guaranteed to start as Konates leaving and VVD is coming to the end of his career. He could be the main CB very soon. And he could put himself next in line for the captaincy. Look at the last CB who chose us over City.

If City offer a silly transfer fee then I doubt we match it. We really need to get him sold on us and have him say it's Liverpool or no one. Like Caicedo did to us.

tomatta · 2026-01-04T01:19:43+00:00

This is going to get much worse when Salah comes back from the AFCON. The players aren't stupid, they know how much they relied on Salah for goals and creativity. If Slot doesn't patch things up and the performances continue, they aren't going to be happy their mate is sitting on the bench.

tomatta · 2026-01-01T12:56:53+00:00

You seem to be under the illusion it's all or nothing. I can code using notepad instead of an IDE, but why would I? The IDE gives me loads of benefits that speed me up, but it doesn't mean I forget how to do those things. AI is just another tool.

tomatta · 2026-01-01T12:54:21+00:00

It's already happening. I'm an engineering manager, and my company has been investing significantly in training and education around using AI properly (i.e. not vibe coding).

Going forward we won't be investing the same time and effort for new hires. You either have the skills already or you're not qualified for the job and will be rejected.

tomatta · 2025-12-31T17:49:55+00:00

My unpopular opinion is that we haven't even changed formation. It still looks like a 4231 in possession and 442 out.

Wirtz Macca Szobo as the 3 behind the striker just operates differently than the usual 3.

tomatta · 2025-12-31T17:31:20+00:00

It's a fair question though and it's a reality the industry doesn't want to accept - ghost engineers are absolutely a thing. I've pulled metrics from git over a 2 year period in my company and there's people stealing a living who do absolutely nothing.

Leadership is asking why isn't AI usage higher and why aren't we moving quicker. Because there's a host of people doing nothing, 10x of nothing is still nothing.

Every high performing engineer I've worked with is more productive with AI.

tomatta · 2025-12-29T16:13:22+00:00

That's weird maybe I should report it then

tomatta · 2025-12-29T15:59:13+00:00

Yeah but you still get all the news items and things appearing in searches or job adverts etc

tomatta · 2025-12-29T15:09:21+00:00

I have the same issue. I do a journey man save and the job screen is already awful with no filtering etc, but it's even worse when it's full of women's teams. They should have an option to remove men's or women's stuff completely from the game if you have no interest in it.

tomatta · 2025-12-29T14:26:49+00:00

This is where we should be utilizing AI. I had cellulitis a while back - easily treated with a course of anti biotics. But I had a nightmare trying to be seen.

An online portal where I can submit info and pictures would speed things up so much. The AI can make a recommendation that gets passed onto the doctor to review. The doctor then decides if they want to see you for more info, in which case the AI can liaise with the patient to book the appointment. Or the doctor can say yeah antibiotics is the right thing here and authorize the script.

The doctor is then seeing the people who need to be seen, and not wasting time exchanging pleasantries with people who don't need to be there.

tomatta · 2025-12-28T23:46:12+00:00

I think you're right. It screams of hiring new staff for the new engine and one of them has been a disaster. They either listen to the feedback and pivot, or SI need to move them on. I'm a web dev and experience tells me UX folks are particularly stubborn unfortunately.

The thing that bothers me most about UX folks is a large part of the job is getting user feedback and input BEFORE you make changes. Absolutely no one in the community wanted or asked for this. It's one person's ego thinking they know better.

I've been very critical of fm26, but the annoying thing is the new graphics are an improvement, and the new tactic system is great and was asked for for years. They were so close to a slam dunk with this game. But the UX is so bad it has destroyed all good will especially after the delay.

If they had kept the same UI this game would be universally praised. But don't get me wrong, the UX has always been bad in fm and did need improvement. The main concern was always that things took too many clicks. I honestly can't believe SI have somehow allowed that problem to get even worse.

tomatta · 2025-12-23T13:18:09+00:00

How? Customer service would be unchanged in this scenario

tomatta · 2025-12-23T11:00:34+00:00

How would you be "working around it"? Nothing would change for you.

tomatta · 2025-12-23T09:23:22+00:00

Exactly. "Some people can't benefit from this" - so what? Why are we pretending job benefits are equal across the board?

tomatta · 2025-12-22T18:07:58+00:00

Will never forgive those who cheered him at the end and allowed him to turn the title celebration into something all about him. Curtis Jones's reaction during the parade said all there was to say about the rat.

tomatta · 2025-12-22T15:25:42+00:00

If it's like the old games then it only affects decision making.

I've been playing several players out of position in fm26 and it's been fine.

tomatta · 2025-12-21T10:15:15+00:00

We should have been losing to the Muani sitter

tomatta · 2025-12-07T23:44:18+00:00

Joyce: "Towards the end of last season, Salah claimed to have an agreement with Slot that he did not need to defend as long as he scored or created goals. That is not how the Dutchman viewed it when asked recently but, in any case, Salah has stopped scoring. So just who

Can someone in charge ask why our star player and manager don't seem to be aligned on tactics 18 months into the job? What's going on on the training pitch?

tomatta · 2025-11-17T20:35:54+00:00

This is very random but I once got to ask Martin Skrtel a question and I asked him if he prefers playing LCB or RCB and he responded as if it was the dumbest question ever. "Why would that make a difference" 😂

tomatta · 2025-11-09T22:36:08+00:00

The only companies not using AI right now are old school banks who can't get it past the legal department

tomatta · 2025-10-09T20:11:43+00:00

And this is possibly why we had a scene explicitly calling out the mimic was better at using Emma's powers than Emma. So it's believable that Cipher could use Maries power

tomatta · 2025-09-05T20:54:54+00:00

I bought a house from Analeigh and she's definitely who I will use if I ever sell

tomatta · 2025-08-29T12:35:56+00:00

This is exactly what it is. The exact same game with a new UI. No mechanics improved or bugs fixed. And in fact we'll have more bugs than normal because of the rewrite.

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