Not sure; probably not.

I don’t remember having to deal with USB-C earbuds before the iPhone.

Sure let’s do that in last name, first name format:

Hospital, Trip

Yeah a spreadsheet looks too much like actual work.

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

Get bent

This has been my experience as well. Designers love to slop it up in them because there’s no versioning or any way to tell what something looked like when it was actually developed. It’s seemingly impossible to set and maintain scope in them. Figma has some versioning support, but it’s probably the worst of all of them from a “which board are you even talking about?” perspective because they have 8000 C&P’d Figma boards all of which contain similar things and the links are 1500 character URLs with a bunch of UUIDs in them.

Depends upon who put the board together. Sometimes, they want me to make them all into Jira issues because nobody can track them in the stupid board.

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.

No, but I get them sent to me by others in my company. Usually someone puts a “board” together that is a bunch of screen captures into some huge, difficult to navigate thing with a bunch of “post it notes” and stuff.

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?

These people aren’t your friends

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.