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Off topic. It seems to me that "preping" became less popular after covid. Perhaps, people realized how ineffective it was when we encountered a doomsday scenario in real life?

What is the reason for disallowing video game rewrites ? Officially, unofficially.

Perhaps it is the new detergents? I don't know.

You may find this interesting. "Orate" has a totally different meaning in Spanish. It basically means "Idiot" or "Demented". As in someone that has lost his/her mental abilities.

What a beautiful life!

> I am working at a bigger place now and the AI mandates handed down have been quite unproductive... As if we wouldn't have been able ourselves to figure out how to use the new tools - like we have since the beginning of software.

This is so true. We have figured out how to use an endless list of software tools. Hardly anyone is as prepared to use the new tools as software engineers.

I don't really know if this is the cause. But the whole DOGE thing sounded highly irresponsible. Did they understand what they were cutting. Furthermore, there may be even worst consequences in the more distant future.

It is becoming very hard not to use an LLM. I have been working on a project all this year. I started doing everything by hand, and I am using LLMs a little bit more every day. I suppose we want to use projects that were crafted with care, whether or not LLMs were used. But it is not easy to figure that out. It reminds me. 30 years ago, before code formatters were popular, you could tell good code just by looking at how carefully formatted it was.

I started using SCCS in the late 80s, then RCS, then CSV, then subversion, and finally git.

I also consider myself a fairly good pragmatic software engineer. I have led small (3 engineers), medium (15), and large (100+) teams.

To me, the best time was late 90s, early 2000s. We had a lot of autonomy. People would just trusted that we knew what and how to build it. I could focus on building a great product. Overtime, we lost control, to the point that we now work based on jira tickets made by managers or product owners with one tenth of the experience that we have.

Same for me. But I suspect I got them by practicing spinning kicks in Tae-Kwan-do. I have to get checked for detachment, but I am good. Doctor told me that eventually my brain would erase them, What I have been doing just ignore them as much as possible.

"If you are famous they let you do anything!"

I imagine the parent comment was just paraphrasing on the "Is the economy stupid" phrase from the Clinton campaign,