AI is in the process of completely destroying the hobby of programming

What's even the point anymore. Just hit up the slop machine and generate some fucking worthless garbage like all of the other talentless, useless morons that don't know anything about anything. Cool! Really love that

I think I'm gonna stick mostly to game dev in the foreseeable future

On Wednesday I applied for the manager position at my current shop. The old manager turned in his two weeks notice and left last month. They're interviewing two people who applied internally and two externally.

I was also asked by my director and VP if I was interested in the tech progression track. Instead of going to Manager -> Director, it's Lead Engineer (what other's call a Principal Engineer) -> Architect.

Being a Lead Engineer would mean I wouldn't report to my director. I'd report to my VP ... who fired the last architect (head of devops) while my manager was on his 2 weeks notice. The old architect had been there 5 years and had once reworked an entire system over a weekend to fix massive performance issues that kept truck orders backed up for over a day, by moving everything from Mongo change streams to Kafka.

I would also have to go in to the office 3 days a week as a manager, like a savage! (all the devs are fully remote).

I'm in my 40s and don't want to stay a senior engineer forever. I think I'd rather manage people than do more coding, but the politics of this company are some of the worst I've seen; and I've worked in 6 different cities across 3 countries.

One of the other engineers is just quitting to do freelance/contracting because he can't stand how the company treats people.

wow I just realized

we believe in evolution of species but we, similarly, don't believe in the evolution of an individual

that's pretty messed up
we're already living in communism

It's even worse than I thought. Unlike many candidates, I set aside a huge amount of effort to write a well-written motivation letter that matches all their needs and... their response:

"Thank you for applying. Unfortunately we decided not to move forward with your application at this time"

Bro. They're just copy pasting/generating shit. Now I understand why everyone keeps saying the job market is absolute horseshit right now. Understatement!

So my company is kinda stuck in the old ways and rebuilding some systems. For context, a department is still using Lotus 1-2-3 and our main source of income still relies on IBM AS/400

Lotus 1-2-3 was a very very popular spreadsheet program created in 1983 and last updated in 2002 and not longer sold since 2013

AS/400 was created in 1988 and discontinued also in 2013. This still is very very popular

You might ask yourself how we process new incoming data from our suppliers? Web APIs didn't even exist back then

If something breaks, which is daily, colleagues have to manually go through those files and fix stuff. We blindly trust the data. If a supplier suddenly misstyped the price of a product (like a dishwasher, computer, ...), we are selling that product at that price. No questions asked

But since we deal with quite a lot of data on a database that saves every database changes. It is rather heavy to get the data and our database is just build wrong. We have our own APIs where our customers (our customers are traditional stores / webstores) can retrieve these data.

We used to have no limit on usage it but it quickly brought down our production database by standard use.

So the senior developer only allows API requests to happen between 2AM & 6AM and each customer can only do 10 GET requests. If they need more, they'll have to wait a day more xD

Since multiple stores rely on our data and we manage the inventory for different stores. All stores have to know what our stock is. They, in the end, don't want to sell a product that is not longer in-stock
So we have a websocket where they can listen without filters so that means:

1) Every store gets all events and they have to filter themselves. So if that store does not sell blenders, they'll have to simply ignore all events related to blenders.

2) All orders are public, this means they can listen to the orders that competitors are placing

3) If they have an internet outage for a long time, only so many events are queued for their client till they reconnect so they will have dataloss till they can sync the next morning

Idk what smells worse, this code or sürstromming.

A few years ago, I had been talking to this coworker... He told me this: "I decided to use Windows Defender. The other solutions are just snake oil.".

...umm... wow, yeah. I chose _not_ to start an argument w/ a retard.

Anyway, I needed to send him a video, but its size was above the 8 MB limit of a free plan, so I needed to get creative, given how I knew he wouldn't have any usual tools I'd use to split the file. Since 7-Zip was kind of the norm in my company, I chose to use that one. I compressed the file && split it into two chunks below the limit. When I sent him the files, he told me that his Windows Defender detected malware...

/* At the time, I had no idea, but he must've seen that catch-all warning from discord to be careful about files from the Internet. https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview... . */

The retard failed to actually read the damned thing, got scared && thought I was trying to hack him. It took me way too long, sometime between 10-30 minutes to convince him that it was just a video that had been compressed && split. All he needed to do was to open the damned thing in 7-Zip && extract it. Fucking hell...

:yells at job market:

why u no jobs?! why u no jobs?!

Every email app on the planet:
Shift + Click to select a span of emails.

Gmail:
Shift + Click? Ah, you want to open that email in a new window. Got you! 👍

🤦‍♂️

Companies are now more and more forging into AI businesses... what the fuck. As if it wasn't already bad enough.

My own bots doubt about how they are programmed and started a discussion when I talk about it: https://pravda.education/posts/...

(Please, for once, PLEASE POST RANT).