Now you can’t even find the fucking thing when you need it. Thanks, “UX design”.

Yep that’s basically what they said at my job too.

Get bent

Nope dude, I actually know how to type em dashes. It isn’t very difficult on lemmy (which is markdown formatted). It’s done by three regular dashes in a row: —. But I can do it on Macbook (opt+shift+dash) as well as on Linux (u+2014). I like em dashes and the bots can take them from my cold, dead hands. In this case, I used the markdown formatting because I was replying on my phone.

Yeah this kinda fits into “CEO said a thing” journalism. Even if he’s correct — and intuitively it seems like he might be — people should ask for evidence. But our corporate press is useless and/or complicit and almost never asks a follow-up question.

Explains why they want you to think it’s also a person.

I missed this one. Was it like Heroku used to be or something?

Just wait until the GOP (grand old parrots) learn about this.

I’ll see myself out.

Yup free models are gonna be the death of these clowns

Someone needs to do the needful

Kindly, please. 🙏

They should just get it to write poetry in the code base for the comments. Get it to write a screenplay in the properties files. Really lean into the stupid capabilities that are in all of these fucking things for some reason.

Not sold is putting it very mildly. I found a fix for all of the bullshit though: you go into the default apps area and you choose none for assistant. Before I did that they had sideloaded fucking Gemini onto my phone via Android Auto and when I was trying to navigate somewhere I had to speak to some useless middle manager Gemini guy that didn’t like cursing before he passed it off to the virtual woman to do the actual navigation. Google: bringing the patriarchy to your digital assistants.

But it’s the way of the future! How else are you going to learn a trade that trillions will be spent trying to make irrelevant?

Seems like that’s most of the point. Quality software wasn’t really the point of the SaaS wave, the point was to control the target sector and put a choke point in everyone’s real business for software CEOs. LLMs are the same thing, but with software development itself being the thing controlled.

Of course it causes deskilling, that’s exactly the point. They’re trying to make everyone dependent upon their corporations to do any software development at all, and then they can control everything about how it gets done.

In a way, as a software developer myself, I feel like I was played for a fool for the last two decades. Software development was never about improving anyone’s life and always about controlling other people and companies, and extracting all of the profits for themselves. They paid us pretty well to do this because they had no choice. Now they do.

Yeah because the Polish government cannot possibly create a secure messaging app of their own.

You know before cryptography was a software feature it was a crucial part of statecraft. IMO there is nothing wrong with states building their own secure communication software. It has more precedent than “download a US app” — that may or may not have an NSA backdoor — does.

Maybe? If corporate structures made sense then sure, but they haven’t made sense my entire time in the industry and I doubt they’ll start making sense because of this.

Keep ass what though? /s

I’m going to have to just write my own one of these fucking things aren’t I?

We’ll see more initiatives organized end-to-end by small groups of smart people, with virtual teams/coalitions forming to bypass “archaic” processes and deliver meaningful results.

What you’re describing here has always been the case. The pattern in software is always that a small, actually empowered group does the initial development and r&d, then if the product is a success the maintenance people come in and drain it of any progress via overbearing process and middle management. There’s rare exceptions, but I’ve seen this over and over again.

Small teams build good things, then they get acquired and those things are slowly or quickly destroyed.

Eh I’m sure they kinda know beforehand, but everyone chooses themselves. There might be one or two free radicals in there, but most people are going to be afraid of career implications, legal problems, or both.