lemmydividebyzero

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I upgraded to windows 11 by accidentally pressing spacebar on startup in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 15 points 1 day ago

More like a downgrade

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The 7 Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History (terriblesoftware.org)
Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm sick of it. I had 4 different problems with it this year at work. And we are paying them money for it....

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“ChatGPT said this” Is Lazy (terriblesoftware.org)
:3 :3 in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 8 points 4 days ago

Welcome to the pengulution

‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Pretty much all of my colleagues wasted time, because Jira stores comments locally that you haven't yet sent, but does not do that for replies on comments. Those are gone after reopening the site for some reason.

‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They renamed "project" to "space", so that it's harder to find what you are looking for.

AI Chatbot Cost Exploitation as an Attack Vector in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wasting the energy isn't that good either..

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AI Chatbot Cost Exploitation as an Attack Vector (dixken.de)
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My employer likes vibe-coding. What do I do? (reddthat.com)
 

I'm a software developer in Germany and work for a small company.

I've always liked the job, but I'm getting annoyed recently about the ideas for certain people.....

My boss (who has some level of dev experience) uses "vibe coding" (as far as I know, this means less human review and letting an LLM produce huge code changes in very short time) as a positive word like "We could probably vibe-code this feature easily".

Someone from management (also with some software development experience) makes internal workshops about how to use some self-built open-code thing with "memory" and advanced thinking strategies + planning + whatever that is connected to many MCP servers, a vector DB, has "skills", a higher token limit, etc. Surprisingly, the people visiting the workshops (also many developers, but not only) usually end up being convinced by it and that it improved their efficiency a lot and writing that they will use it and that it changed their perspective.

Our internal slack channels contain more and more AI-written posts, which makes me think: Thank you for throwing this wall of text on me and n other people. Now, n people need to extract the relevant information, so you are able to "save time" not writing the text yourself. Nice!!!

I see Microsoft announcing that 30% of code is written by AI which is advertisement in my opinion and an attempt to pressure companies to subscribe to OpenAI. Now, my company seems to not even target that, but target the 100%????

To be clear: I see some potential for AI in software development. Auto-completions, location a bug in a code base, writing prototypes, etc. "Copilot" is actually a good word, because it describes the person next to the pilot. I don't think, the technology is ready for what they are attempting (being the pilot). I saw the studies questioning how much the benefit of AI actually is.

For sure, one could say "You are just a developer fearing to lose their job / lose what they like to do" and maybe, that's partially true... AI has brought a lot of change. But I also don't want to deal with a code base that was mainly written by non-humans in case the non-humans fail to fix the problem......

My current strategy is "I use AI how and when ->I<- think that it's useful", but I'm not sure how much longer that will work..

Similar experiences here? What do you suggest? (And no, I'm currently not planning to leave. Not bad enough yet...).

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Sad News! AI's RAM Hunger Finds a New Victim in the Orange Pi Neo Linux Handheld (itsfoss.com)
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"How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard" - by Joel Hawksley (hawksley.org)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
Remember NFTs in c/funny@sh.itjust.works
[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago

But the Metaverse!!!!

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More nuanced (and without using the word "stupid")

  • Making reusable rockets is very difficult. It was high risk, high reward.
  • Electric cars were always the climate change solution IF the battery gets good enough. And it got good enough. I hate my country's car industry (I'm from Germany) for not getting their asses up.
  • Satellite internet is in fact too expensive for average customers. I think, no on has ever declared it as bad for people in regions without existing internet intrastructure. The question is how profitable it is, but it's not publicly traded, so we will probably not get the numbers.

For sure, Elmo can somehow make profit out of it, e.g. by selling the space cloud usage as "can't be controlled by an government on earth" for a high price. But when we concentrate on the facts: It can't be more efficient than Azure or AWS on earth, at least not for the next decades.

Iran Confirms Khamenei's Killing in US-Israel Strikes in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The End of world war 2 brought a long period of peace to Europe.

How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

It has to be dogshit, so you buy the Kindle.

Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

But the shareholder value!!!111

Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Well, I found some nice blogs and enjoyed reading a few articles today on my weekend and I though "maybe, others enjoy those, too", so I shared 3 of them. They got around 900 upvotes in total, so I think, that was not a bad decision (for me, it's not about internet points, but about discourse / seeing what others think / strengthen lemmy).

I also couldn't find past posts of this article in @technology@lemmy.world, so it shouldn't be a duplicate -> https://reddthat.com/search?q=dark+patterns&type=All&listingType=All&communityId=9232&page=1&sort=TopAll&titleOnly=false

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How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked (blog.pixelmelt.dev)
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Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks (www.ifixit.com)
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Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. (taranis.ie)
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Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews (www.osnews.com)
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Death by a thousand slops (daniel.haxx.se)
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