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[–] 116 points 3 months ago (18 children)

Why the hell would it be a good thing to withhold knowledge from junior devs?

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  • [–] 83 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

    What I've read is it's meant to keep crosstalk from multiple devs using AI at once from messing up each other's work. So everyone can just vibe code and not have any idea what they're doing in their own little space.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Just...just fucking work from home

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    But then it's harder to micromanage everyone. Better to hire people with no skill, then force them to drive to a central location, and distribute masks to have them tell an AI what to do.

    The toilet chairs and nutrients paste IV will be things workers have to buy on their own as part of the contract.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    lol no one is hiring junior devs anymore anyway

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  • [–] 41 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    The problem is with no juniors, you don't get any seniors in 5 years. Every expert was once a beginner...

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  • [–] 40 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Companies thinking long-term in 2026!? You're funny...

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Here's the thing, Warren buffet argumently the best stock market person in history based everything on long term gains. P&g coke a cola etc long term company long term profit invest in them

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Sure but he was also investing when the stock market was also slightly attached to reality which hasn't been true in a decade at least.

    It was always gambling but now numbers must go up at all costs

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    That has always been the case and is written into law that a publicly traded company must do anything possible to make more money.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    It's not actually law and that's just what companies want to be the belief for them behaving reprehensibly

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    Yes, I believe you're interpreting that page incorrectly. Fiduciary duties are law bindings for specific relationships and situations not applicable for all publicly traded companies to all shareholders.

    I believe you're confusing that idea with the theory of shareholder supremacy that's a claim, popularized by the likes of Jack Welch to support their actions.

    The background comes from Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. in 1919 which stated

    There should be no confusion... A business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders.

    and the interpretation has been quite debated.

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  • [–] 98 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I love how this ad is an apologia whose explicit premise is that you will lose the respect of your colleagues, but they’ll be fired and you won’t so their opinion shouldn’t matter to you. Was this written by Dwight from The Office?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    they’ll be fired and you won’t

    "AI will take your jobs because you aren't efficient enough", I whisper smugly into my ball gag, as I bend over the coders pomel horse for a performance review.

    "Wait, what do you mean they downsized the WHOLE DEPARTMENT and shipped the work overseas?! You'll never get my level of efficiency from an evil foreigner!"

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  • [–] 187 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (11 children)

    My code would look like this:

    if{x>0}

    positivecountplusplus;

    no, not that, I mean positivecountplusplus;

    No! I mean increment positivecount;

    NO! Erase, stop typing all that;

    Erase last four lines;

    FUCK!;

    {endif}

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  • [–] 174 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I can only assume they're saying prompts for vibevoded slop, not trying to write actual code verbally.

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  • [–] 44 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    "Like, do that thing where it counts by one until it gets to a predefined number, but make that number equal to the number of statements. But, like, do it where it doesn't suck like last time.

    "Nooooo, why does it keep counting to 2? Now 3? 4?!"

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  • [–] 43 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    You forgot to say "Only write correct code" in your instructions

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  • [–] 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    If you can get past the background noise, this is one of my favorite old YouTube videos and it’s basically this: Windows Vista Speech Recognition Test

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  • [–] 83 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Good to see that 100x developers still don't get their own office, just a gimp mask.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    I kind of wonder just how dirty we could make things look entirely using non-sexual tech gear. Or how close we could really get things to look like a full gimp suit.

    The obvious next part is covering the top half of the face with a VR headset. Add one of those "improved strap with added battery" things to cover more of the top and back of the head.

    I'm sure there are VR gloves, or motion tracker gloves for V-Tubers. Probably a decent bit of kit there with their motion tracker bands and such.


    The real limiting factor has always been the barrier between man and machine. Witness the power of a true 100000x coder: full digital immersion!

    Screenshot from the TV show "Upload", Season 2, showing a character in a full VR immersion "hug" suit with physical feedback, normally used for sex, in this case used for sad, sad subterfuge

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  • [–] 63 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Hold on a second, I remember these things being sold a couple of years ago... The only difference was that they were marketed towards gamers so you could scream slurs without mother taking away your Good-Boy-Points™️

    Here's the kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/metadox/the-phasma-a-voice-dampening-mask-for-gamers

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Holy shit this is the most Onion-looking product I've ever seen. I can't believe this is real!

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    The new version fits under your nose - making the wearer look like one of the COVID anti mask wearing morons that doesn't understand how a mask works. I hate it all

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    up to 20dB

    Yeah that ain't doing shit

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    That's about four times less loud or enough to turn yelling into a conversational volume. It's not perfection, but 20dB is nothing to sneeze at.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That's the maximum reduction at the peak frequency when fitted perfectly. Their numbers, not independent testing

    It's not letting you scream in the night like advertised

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Ok honestly if it works this sounds great for me in my house while my wife sleeps for her Saturday or Sunday shifts. I am obnoxiously loud and love playing games and bullshitting with friends on those nights. I have kept her up and few nights before. But if this even has 1/2 of the dampening power, that’s amazing.

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  • [–] 61 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    So many var names with the uuuuuuuhhhh prefix

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  • [–] 53 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Three major updates before the coffee's done brewing brings to mind a team scrambling to fix a fuck up, fucking up even more, then scrambling to fix that on top of the original fuck up.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago*

    "[Dev1]Oooooh sh*t! Prod is down!! AI, we need to fix this ASAP!
    -[CodeAssistant] Please wait, I'm working on a solution.
    -[Dev1] No, wait! I haven't given you any details yet!
    -[CodeAssistant] Proposed solution: delete entire codebase and database to restart from scratch! Do you want to proceed?
    -[Dev2] Mike, do you want to grab a drink after work?
    -[Dev1] Yes, sure! … Wait! NOOOOOOOOOOO!"

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    This all kind of implies that the devs can push to prod whenever they want, which isn't how everyone else is set up. Some of us want to cordon off all this chaos, just a little, with release windows and scheduled downtime if needed. Which is yet more LinkedIn Lunatic material.

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  • [–] 43 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Does no one else type faster than they talk?

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  • [–] 38 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Bigger question: who the fuck is bottlenecked by their typing speed?

    You can't vibe code your way out of needing to know what to build, how it fits together with what you have, or the things that actually make the job tricky.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago

    You forget that I can now describe the code I want faster than I can write it. Frankly it's irrelevant if the code at the end doesn't do what I want or that I don't know what it does. The speed, baby. Never before could I push this much code this fast. 200+ new bugs a day, four times as fast as I used to be pushing features. The code base is worse than it's ever been and it's only going to get faster from here. This is the future, baby - the vibe coder

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I type slower than I talk, but partly because I'm usually thinking through what I'm typing and not as I'm talking

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    For me they are roughly on par with each other when accounting for stutter and autocorrect/ me being stupid and mixing up spelling styles. Regardless voice recognition software almost always shits the bed with my accent eventually since it gets thicker the longer I talk, it doesn't like my fucked up mix of American brogue, old arkansaner, and standard southern Californian even got a bit of German Minnesota mixed in.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I sometimes can type faster than I normally speak, but that depends on the keyboard (needs something without a membrane sensing apparatus (not rubber domes) for it to work), and I sometimes can type faster than I could think clearly, which can be detrimental to the quality of output. But hey, at a company, they could use it as a metric.

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  • [–] 42 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    How fucking slow is your coffee maker

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  • [–] 34 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It seems to be wired. How can you maximize your productivity if you have to stop talking to the computer when you leave your desk?

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago

    I would bet cold, hard cash that the people making and selling this spent time during the early COVID pandemic screaming about how masking is a communist plot that violated their rights.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    How are they drinking the coffee if they have the masks on to work?

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    3 major updates in the morning and 30 major bug reports during the rest of the day?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    No, don't worry: all the tests are done by AI, and they're all ok with the output. It may create some tensions with the users in production with behaviors the users don't expect or understand, but we no longer call those bugs, it's all because human users are inefficient and should be replaced by AI assistants.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago

    Yeah, because typing speed is the bottleneck here...

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago

    Its the future, bro!

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago

    This is cool for people with unique accessibility needs

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    They both...have keyboards.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    This is for prompting an LLM. The "senior dev" in this case is not coding anything and neither are typing anything. The idea is that speaking to the LLM is faster than typing a conversation with it.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    And apparently junior devs are clamoring to eavesdrop on how senior devs are prompting the LLM and that's a problem. I can see the problem of being in an open office plan and having a ton of folks talking over another but the solution is just cubicles and not this face hugger microphone

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Because we wouldn't want inexperienced devs to learn from their senior coworkers...

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, there's a lot of unhinged stuff in this post, but that was the wildest to me. The junior isn't taking your 'genius' away, if they hear it. The opposite would be the case, because it sharpens your mind when you get to explain the nitty-gritty to someone with a new perspective.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    Witness me lowly junior devs, as I ship updates at 150 WPM with my robot legs. Your fear of looking ridiculous is a skill issue. I’m a genius.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    If you put on a feeding bag to code I'm going to mock you mercilessly and many people will join me.

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