Rayquetzalcoatl

The Witch is SO good. I’ve actually never seen First Blood. Great shout.

I actually got out to see Aliens at the cinema lately and it was fuckin awesome. I have a few films I want to watch! Any recommendations tho?

It’s not a proof of concept, or an MVP - I’m saying it’s what is given to the client as a full, finished solution.

What I’m saying is that the “this was built by AI!” effect is so strong that copy/pasting ChatGPT results together with no forethought or understanding is miserable and brings only technical debt - but that that’s irrelevant to management, because they’re impressed by the robot and don’t want to “fall behind” other agencies.

That is not what I’m saying - the situation I’m describing is the situation I’m currently in: I work for a small web agency, we have the agency owner, the project manager, and the development lead as our “management”.

A client asks for something, the agency owner says yes, and then the development lead cobbles something together over the course of a few hours with results from ChatGPT or Claude.

The thing works, but only for that specific request and cannot handle edge cases, and he doesn’t know how it works nor how to extend it, so he cobbles on more ChatGPT or Claude results.

The management team love it, but it’s just mountains of technical debt piling up.

I see what you’re saying, but I’m not talking about proof of concepts. I’m talking about “fully fledged” Frankenstein apps that get cobbled together by cowboys. Documentation written by ChatGPT that is full of hallucinations. Managers love that stuff because the thing they’ve asked for works but nothing outside of that one thing works, which doesn’t matter because they’re not testing it.

I’m not talking about small proof of concepts. I was referring to myself in a professional capacity as a developer; I’ve been a web developer full time since 2015.

I’m so sick of hearing about AI. I’ve been struggling with the concept that “authenticity” seems to be completely irrelevant to a lot of people lately. I’m a developer and have been for 10+ years at this point, and am struggling to understand why I would stay in this field.

When I get down, I start to question if there’s any point in learning anything. I started up a side project with somebody I respected in a niche hobby space and have been using that to learn a new framework, but I’m rapidly feeling like it’s pointless to bother learning when you can badly cobble something together with a chatbot and the managers of the world will ejaculate themselves dry about how good robots are, even when the bloody thing barely functions.

It seems that a lot of people don’t give a shit if something is actually made by humans. Those same people don’t seem to value the hard work it takes to make something. I feel like I’m having a hard time fitting in at the moment.

Ubisoft? The notorious video game publisher that had several high-up members of staff accused of sexual and psychological harassment?

Ubisoft? The company described in a lawsuit filed by employees in 2021 as ‘a legal entity for institutional sexual harassment for setting up, maintaining and reinforcing a system where sexual harassment is tolerated because it is more profitable for the company to keep harassers in place than to protect its employees’?

That Ubisoft? They cancelled a game? Oh no :(

If you’re just talking about number of copies sold, using the term “best” is confusing

I’m out of the loop with GTA VI, but the last I knew of it the only thing they’d released was a cinematic, non-gameplay trailer. Have they released gameplay now?

I scored 12/21 on https://e-mail.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media. That was absolutely hilarious!

We’ll see how it comes out in the sales figures, I suppose! I would like to believe you’re right but I just have absolutely not a jot of faith that people will stick to their outrage. 😂

Not casting aspersions towards you personally, but we all know how gamer boycotts go generally. As in, they don’t. People cave and buy the games anyway, once they’re over the initial outrage. This is 100% marketing.

I have come to accept that this is a PR campaign to plaster the name everywhere all over social media and let it worm its way into currently pissed off gamers’ heads for a few months down the line when they’ve calmed down and inevitably buy the fucking thing.

Pitchford is a slimeball. Rarely has a man who is allegedly not an insurance or used-car salesman given off such nakedly scummy vibes.

We need to stop giving free publicity to this little marketing man, and to this poorly optimised, expensive game.

Knowyourmeme shows it used sort of both ways, but I guess it kind of depends who in the meme you agree with 😂 in the original context of the show (for whatever that’s worth), yes, Patrick and SpongeBob are the confused/incorrect ones

That doesn’t make sense, the commenter just got it potentially wrong - easy to see why, given the context of the actual scene the screenshots are from lol

Ahhh okay I see. I’ve developed sites for a decade but have never had to really consider how databases work in any great detail, which obviously now with mongo I am having to think about. Thank you for clarifying! I’ve got some reading to do 🫡

I always find comfort seeing memes like this and seeing that so many of us experience the exact same pains. It might sound obvious or stupid to others, but I’ve lived so “in my own head” for so long that it’s easy to forget that actually, we’re all capable of massively putting our foot in our mouths at times – and more importantly, the cringe mistakes and faux pas of other people generally don’t get chiseled into our brains in the way our own moments do.

I’m currently building something using Mongo as the DB, and have so far been making sure to assign the user ID to everything that relates to that user when it’s created.

Wouldn’t you have to do something like that in MySQL anyway to ensure that the entries related to each other?

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No thanks 👍