ericksoa

I am just flattered that at 53, I am still early career!

This. Working at EA punching out the next version of Madden, featuring roster updates, UI changes, and tinkering with a few settings isn't exactly work designing the new Unreal engine.

Your average Java CRUDster could probably do a lot of that work. Gamedev isn't the black art it used to be.

Sometimes layoffs are designed to give air cover for execs that want to get rid of "networks of detractors" who are causing problems, like how in a game company there might be a network of influential luddites who oppose use of LLMs over ideological reasons, even if the use case is good.

IMO those are virtuous layoffs, sometimes you need to clear your company culture of troublemakers who are getting in the way of company strategy.

"software development is a team sport"

I have heard people state this like it is obviously true. Not so sure.

I tried my best to make a startup that was a "fuck you" to Workday (orgspace.io, RIP).

Unfortunately, HR execs said "fuck you" back in no uncertain terms.

You either do it, or someone wraps you with one using browser_use or similar.

Have you seen the movie "mean girls"?

People of all genders do this all the time, group up and rat-fuck the reputation of someone they don't like for all sorts of reasons, not all of them particularly good.

Throw in a bit of bandwagoning during the height of #metoo when we decided that having a bad date where the wrong kind of wine was ordered with Asis Ansari or having a jokey boob photo from 30 years ago with Al Franken was somehow worthy of Thou Shalt Never Work Again, and I can totally understand how all this went down.

100%. When I play video games, I am Marl. Not going into menus or whatever to set things up, just using it to specifically not use my brain.

When I see VCs make this argument, all I hear is "oh shit, we're late to the party" and doing something like this as a desperate attempt to bring valuations down.

You know what is more controversial than letting robot cars drive around? Trying to make a new train line literally anywhere in the US.

You are better off buying a bunch of robot cars, tying them together with a rope, and starting a company to run hacker trains on city streets and charge money.

In fact, in SF, if the protestors were clever, they'd just get together tie a bunch of cars together and create their own train. What are they going to do, arrest you?

Charlottesville might have thoughts on this

By this logic, we should go back to manual deploys since CD lets... aghast... computers deploy our most important software to prod

The guy seems pretty earnest about this, seems like it is literally his first blog post.

It would not shock me in the least if people work in an org where they say they are "going agile", takes them through training where some Scrum Salesman conflates agile with scrum, leading to observations like "agile doesn't deal with change fast enough"

Honestly, we need a new word for it at this point.

This. I like a lot of the game, but something feels off with movement.

Question: unless you are an anti-AI advocate, why does this matter? Why are we raising pitchforks over this? We routinely sign terms that allow product managers to analyze how we use a product and even use data for aggregation of trends.

Yes, an opt out would be nice, but what bad outcome for anyone personally comes of this?