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A year ago leadership told us everything goes through agents now. Hand written code needed a reason. It felt great for about 6 months, we shipped more than we ever had.

Now the codebase is around 3x the size it was and nobody can explain how most of it works. The agents struggle too, they keep re-implementing helpers that already exist somewhere else because there are 4 versions of everything.

The part that actually hurts is who is left. The two people who used to read every PR and push back left in the spring, one quit, one was “restructured”.

coderabbit still comments on every PR, but there’s nobody left who can tell if a comment matters or not, so people just resolve them all.

This month management started quietly asking us to “write more of it ourselves” again. Except half of us haven’t written anything non trivial in a year and it shows. I spent 2 days on something I would have done in an afternoon in 2024.

Not sure what I want from posting this.

Is anyone else at the point where the mandate is being walked back, and how did you get the understanding back?

It is headed that way, but yeah the odds are slim

No way!

I’m still watching prop 40 climb closer and closer to a Yes. It was an 11 point spread at 60% counted, now its a 9 point spread at 65% counted… There is a slim chance!

Edit: the spread is 6.8 points at 75% of the vote counted… Not looking likely.

6.4% at 77% of the vote.

Oh shit! I didn’t expect that

Wow, that’s a surprisingly apt reference

Aww bummer

Edit: looks like there are recent updates… Looks like they are struggling with the merge bottleneck like everyone else. https://fosstodon.org/@mollyim

Will you blend it after fermenting?

Welcome. You come to find a more free alternative… You stay for the beans, powdered milk, and art.

To the disposal argument i like to ask; are we handling our waste from burning fossil fuels well?

Is run away climate change “doing it well”?

Would you rather your waste be buried in the ground or pumped into the atmosphere?

Containing the waste and burying it in the ground is the default for nuclear, meanwhile doing the same for CO2 is very challenging and it may never be viable.

si = super intelligence = trump’s branding

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Very cool work

Good lord

That tool was made with an LLM. There is no escape.

Interesting arguments

… yeah but also the worlds oil supply imploding is likely going to pay off big time for the US and its massive oil production

Woah a game that uses fediverse accounts, cool

Maybe, but look at all the other months: https://portfolioslab.com/tools/stock-comparison/SGOL/SOXX

Mine arrived today. Ironic.

Also ironic that I had to buy a pixel, but i needed a new phone so I wanted something that gos and other distros could run on

I would have never guessed