irvingprime

More than once, I've been asked to work on websites that had nothing for unsubscribe options except, "Call us." The excuses vary from, "That's a low priority feature" to "F** them!"

I figure that if it was a legal requirement, most would comply but quite a few would still think it was an imposition. So if there was a law mandating an online unsubscribe option, it would need teeth. $10,000 fine per user per day that you don't have it might work.

You gave an AI access to your email? What were you thinking?

I've had a theory for years that the free market is mostly a myth, that really most business execs are herd animals who form their strategies by copying others. Usually they copy the ones in the same industry, making them all look pretty much the same.

That's one of the reasons we have economic cycles. It's because trends come and go in waves. When one wave bankrupts a bunch of companies, they start to dig out and then the next wave hits, endlessly.

Well, I'm writing a science fiction novel. There are references in it to AI but just as a tool people use. It's not about that.

Bingo! You found the prize! Putting tech that is prone to hallucination in charge of anything that has serious consequences when it's wrong is a terrible idea. You do not want hallucinated payments or receipts, or legal citations. You want these things to be both true and correct, EVERY TIME.

For many years I've developed on a Linux VM running on a Windows host. At a couple of jobs I ran a Linux VM on a MacOS host.

This way, my development environment remains stable and portable and the thing I use to read email and surf the web is whatever. It works for me.

Reject. Period. No compromise. No friendly comments about how it can be improved. Just reject it as unreviewable.

Then ban the idiot who submitted it.

Customer service? In the age of AI? What have you been smoking?

You are in a completely normal dev shop. What's happened is that the start up mentality of "ship something - anything, and ship it NOW" has infected everything. Maybe over time you can make it better. But educating management can be a slow and frustrating process. Good luck!

Vibecoding is bad coding. Always. Even if I take the headline as correct, so what? It's still crap code that will collapse into an unmaintainable mess sooner rather than later.

I'm no longer at the company but yesterday was my last day so my information is still current.

The division I worked in was demanding that developers use AI at least once a week and they were tracking people's usage. The boss nagged about it every day.

I had no problem meeting the requirement but did find it's contributions to be very hit or miss as to usefulness.