Once JetBrains started to get into AI bullshit, I immediately canceled my subscription.

You get a permanent perpetual license for the version you spend a year paying for, so I have been just using the version before they started sloppifying the entire editor. It runs ok, and does what I need, don't see a reason to upgrade.

I've recently gotten access to a license at work, and oh my god the editor has gotten so much more worse and slower after the two years. It sucks, I liked JetBrains as a company, but at this point I would not recommend it to anyone, unless installing like an ancient version.

But yeah, in the toolbox you can install older versions. Go with like 2023-24 one and you'll have a much better experience.

I'm pretty sure cards have to have some kind of blocking mechanism for this case, no? It should be really easy to detect.

At this point I'm seriously considering just running something like openclaw with a basic model to just keep clicking on random stuff and browsing the internet, changing personalities each day at random, to flood my IPs data.

Oh, in this case where they have an online form, I'd say you did see them. Everyone did, in fact, you saw it at on <random day between 29th and 1st>, and they were wearing , were , with a and about !

In fact, everyone should go and fill out the form right now. Don't forget to use a VPN.

This is great news, it actually means that catching someone who did this isn't as easy as I expected. Like, it took them three days to notice that some of the cameras are missing, plus they have not caught them for another three and had to go public with this embarrassment, so they are probably getting desperate.

Haha, get fucked.

Also, it might be a good idea to flood the online tipping form with random-but-plausible tips, like about the size/weight/color of clothes of the assailant, so anyone snitching will get burried. Don't forget to use a vpn, if you can get one as close as possible.

Isn't there supposed to be a security code? The three-digit thing? Not sure you can brute-force that easily.

This will be a goldmine for malware groups that are poisoning AIs that use web search to get them to use their malware-ridden version of software and libraries, and I'm here for it with popcorn at the ready.

I kinda hope this will get more common, because the only people affected kind of deserve it, plus it's a great way how to filter sloprojects at a glance.

As someone who had his relatively fine and deterministic scripts replaced by skill.md bullshit by coworkers -- no. This is exactly the things AI is the worst fit for.

We've already ran into it halucinating complete result data-set, because it ran into an error but the skill mentioned that it should give the results data to the user. So it just made it up, since it couldn't get it by following the correct process.

It has also ran wrong builds or input parameters, because it confused their order.

I've also seen it skip a step.

I'm pretty confident that the AI running this script will eventually, for someone, run into an issue with getting one of the dependencies, and go on a wild goose chase in trying to satisfy it, eventually running into one of the typosquatting malware repositories or clones. Not to mention that there are groups that are actively poisoning AIs that search the web to feed them their malware-ridden typosquatting libraries instead.

If you suck so much you can't write a simple script like this (or just can't be bothered), you should at least just ask the AI to write it for you, so you have a deterministic set of steps that you are confident will always behave the same.

This kind of does something similar :D https://codeberg.org/TheMikina/git-llmfs

While I'm not a fan of most AI usages, this is the thing that infuriates me the most.

I like writing scripts to automate parts of my job. I've had a few for things like build performance testing comparison and the like.

All of it was replaced by skill.md, that does exactly the same, but burns like 3$ per run in tokens, and has also at least once generated hallucinated results, because it ran into an error, ran wrong builds, or in general fucked up in a way that was not easy to detect (and we did in fact not detect it until much later).

But hey, at least my colleagues now don't have to open the filthy commandline and write py perf-test.py main feature/branch to run the test, and can just talk about it to a clanker.

Windows 11 recently had to start enabling some kind of turbo CPU mode just to open a right click menu on files, because otherwise it took more than 5-10 seconds. Same with File Browser.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-11-low-latency-profile-cpu-boost

They are extremely incompetent.

I had to use Teams for a week because of a second jpb I do occasional contracts for, and it was baffling how extremely worse has it gotten in the last two years.

Three times! It has happened that the teams would load (after going through login loop twice times for some reason) that it would load and show everything as usuall. Only after like three hours of waiting for answer I've noticed that my message actually didn't send, without any error or indicator, and that everyone's, including mine, status is "Undefined" and nothing works - messages don't send, just appear sent, and I'm not getting any messages.

The only indicator was that everyone's status dot was a hollow grey circle, and that messages did not have the sent checkmark but just a hollow dot next to them. Even refreshing did not fix it and I had to relog it for it to start working.

My bachelor's was actually called Software Engineering (it was 10 years ago, so it migh've changed a lot), on Faculty of IT. It was mostly just applied programming (but also indepth - from assembly through smalltalk, to bash, C and Prolog), with a lot of courses about SDLC, UML, DevOps, and all that.

We also had a lot of advanced math, from integrals to logic, and some CS like data structures, algorithms and all that jazz.

It was not as theoretical as actual Computer Science on other faculties, and was more devops oriented, but I did learn a lot of fundamentals about every language I can imagine, including lambda calcul, and also all the math I could ever need. And I'm pretty glad I was forced to learn about proper processes, am able to read and correctly design an UML, and have some insight into various types of the SDLC - which apparently isn't that common, judging by my experience when actually working. Not that it ever matters - all it ever got me was being internally annoyed that people are using/doing it wrong, but it's not a big deal because everyone understands eachother, and there's no reason to point it out and be smug about it.

But yeah, CS was mentioned a lot, but the difference was mostly that CS is theoretical and way more math heavy, while SWI is pretty similar in most of the circulum, but instead of obscure theoretical proofs about big O of algorithms, you are learning about UML and SDLC.

Also, I got to do an Ethical Hacking optional course, which landed me a job in cybersec and started my carrier (before I moved to gamedev), so that's also nice.

In general, it gave me a lot of "technical soft skills", it was also team project oriented and asked us to have all the requirements and documentations and architecture designs 100% formally written, and that is a really good skill to have.