InfamousRece

I’d love to outsource all the boring, tedious parts of my job to LLM. Unfortunately it is the upper management who decide which parts of my job are boring.

I also feel things changed a lot. We’re now getting vibe coded prototypes from management - thousands of lines of spaghetti that we must make production ready “by yesterday”. After all the difficult part has been accomplished already. Oh, and this is a list of additional features that should be very easy to add while you’re at it.

I believe they skipped blockchain first so at least there is that.

In my career I never received any recognition for well designed and executed projects. Even the ones that were high impact and widely praised by customers. I had much more luck with shitty/buggy stuff that should not have been released. Yes, I’m not perfect and suffer from brain farts sometimes. In such cases I could play a hero that worked whole nights/weekends to put down fires. And I got rewarded for that.

At my previous place IPv6 was useable (I was getting /60 prefix rather than /64 I’m getting now) but the prefix was changing often - several times per day. This was annoying because every prefix change all addresses of my devices changed too. So in practice I always used private IPv4 addresses to connect to them. A NAT would solve this issue.

Same at my place. I get a /64 prefix and my router simply cannot work with that at all.

In my case I don’t even mind if these evangelists try so hard to convince other developers. What I do mind is that they seem to be quite successful in convincing our bosses. So we get things like mandatory LLM usage, minimum number of Claude API calls per day, every commit must be co-authored by Claude, etc.

To be fair it was not that difficult to set create a pure 64 bit binary distro and there were a few of them. The real issue was to figure out how to do mixed 32/64 bit and this is where the fight about /lib directories originated. In a pure 64 bit distro the only way to run 32 bit binaries was to create a chroot with a full 32 bit installation. It took a while before better solutions were agreed to. This was an era of Flash and Acrobat Reader - all proprietary and all 32 bit only so people really cared about 32 bit.

Yeah that kind of thinking is known as “doorman fallacy”. Essentially the job whose full value is not immediately obvious to ignorant observer = “useless busy work”.

I set up Scratch for my daughter but she ended up mostly playing games (Minecraft and Super Tux are her favorite). She did pick up some computer skills though. For example she has pretty good understanding of files and directories - something that most kids struggle with in mobile-first era. I don’t allow internet access. She is too young for that.