The push for AI is going to put people in hot water and possibly jail. Here is one example.

Is it okay to put a resume into an AI Detector to determine if it was AI written?

If PII is not removed, and the AI Detector is a public service (meaning no control of where the data goes) then it may be a GDPR violation. PII is not a joke in the USA either. There are things you have to follow to protect that. Work history is also a form of PII. It names places you worked so someone could figure out it is you that way.

Also, why would anyone care if they used AI to work on their resume? People are being asked to modify their resume to match job descriptions. One tool to do that is to use AI to help with this. If someone does this, and doesn't proof read that is on them. Also, you have to tone down the flowery bullshit AI produces. It embellishes and flat out lies.

Rust is fucking hard! I think I need more estrogen.

Here some nice performance statistics from AI used for coding: https://static.molodetz.nl/rp.cgi/...

This statistics page just stopped at a certain moment exactly like 10.000. I should've known. I read the source code and literally an entry_limit variable. Why would such variable ever exit? The gateway kept workng but it stopped to maintain statistics.

I have sent 1.37 GB of source code to AI and received 86 Mb. 63 errors on 10.000 requests, AI came from far. First i had a chatbot that i just stopped with debugging because the issue were always remote. This is mainly grok-code-fast-1 trough open router. Could say they're reliable.

I love data :)

I've been trying out Amazon q on and off for a few days. I can see the potential it may have. But learning how to use it is best done while working from home as a sudden outburst with too many swears in a row in an open space office draws attention.

I just had a recruiter reach out to me on LinkedIn for a senior front end developer job. Hybrid, 70% more than what I currently get as a Laravel developer. And I really like working with Laravel.

Fuck... I've been in this new job since September and I might just pursue this. It's SO MUCH MONEY, HOLY FUCK.

Problem is, I won't have a lot of holiday time when my lover wants to come visit me next year.

My daddy was a baker. The flour was bringing pest, so we had a cat.

We also had a giant automatic oven. And a sale lady that was in charge of checking that the cat wouldn't be in it before closing it for the night.

One day she didn't do her job and when my parents woke up, it was smelling like grilled chicken.

Today I learned the difference between Hashmap and LinkedHashMap in Java.
After 20 years of PHP development I could not undestand the difference until I hit my nose on an error.
It'hard to change yous development stack whene you are 50 year old.

I've been working more and more with vibe coding. The only way I can get it to work is with Claude code.

I'm not sure why it's different, but that one actually works. He's worth the 200/mth if you can make money coding.

Is the code great? No. But who gives a fuck. He frees up so much time

Best buy employees and geek squad don’t know shit about computers

Ain't nothing like compiler development to make you want to jump of a bridge

I went in with my childish naivety. How wrong I was... lmao

My LLM after uploading all my financial data: `Large purchase threshold: Anything exceeding €100 requires my approval`.

Haha, but I like it, I do everything with perplexity and if he can help me offering cheaper alternatives everytime I use it, it's a big win.

But so bossy. Damn. And 100,-? :P Seriously. I don't work but I pee that :P Hmm, ok, but that's the problem I guess.

reading a book on emotional intelligence and it's quite dystopian that it's funny. I got the name of it from a highly sensitive person book praising it (so you'd think they would be sensitive and empathetic, and be able to perspective-take and all that jazz)... he also keeps talking about how cognitive capability doesn't mean better social skills but better social skills means better cognitive ability. lol

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> One of the more surprising job arenas where emotional intelligence makes a competitive difference is computer programming, where the rate at which the top 10 percent exceed average performers in producing effective programs is 320 percent. And those rare superstars, in the top 1 percent of programmers, produce a boggling 1,272 percent more than the average.9
“It’s not just computing skills that set apart the stars, but teamwork,” says Spencer. “The very best are willing to stay late to help their colleagues finish a project, or to share shortcuts they discover rather than keep them to themselves. They don’t compete—they collaborate.”

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> After hearing me give a talk on emotional intelligence, the CEO of a company—one of the ten largest in its market—told me in confidence about why, instead of grooming his chief operating officer of many years to take his place as CEO, he fired him: “He was extraordinarily talented, brilliant conceptually, a very powerful mind. He was great on the computer, knew the numbers up, down, and backward. That’s how he got to be chief operating officer.“But he was not a brilliant leader, not even particularly likable. He was often brutally acerbic. In groups he was socially awkward; he had no social graces, or even a social life. At forty-five, he had nobody he was close to, no friends. He worked all the time. He was one-dimensional; that’s why I finally let him go.
“But,” the CEO added, “if he could have done just five percent of what you’re talking about, he’d still be here.”

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so you knew he was smart because he collaborated / taught you how he thought... and this isn't the only excerpt where the author praises overtime, commitment, etc. but then the guy gets fired for having no friends. lol

I just noticed that mentions are not the only broken notifications.
The "someone commented in a rant that you commented in" notifications are also gone.

:/

(Double rant day)

So I had a little problem and I thought, why not test a new AI tool on it.
The problem: git-rebase, but copy tags. Example: if you apply a commit with the tag G2, create a tag called G2' in the new commit.
The tool: Perplexity. I had heard good things about it.

TL;DR: Had to do it myself.

1st it told me to do it by hand.
"What about --exec?"
Oh yeah, call a bash script to do it.
"What would the script look like...?"
Ooh, like this, look.
"Ok, I see. Can we just put it all in the command? The script can be simplified, only one tag per commit that has any, and forget the echo statements."
Yeah definitely, here you are.
"It's still complex, the script can be simplified."
Yes, I can remove some parts. Now.

Great, so now I had a single command, that would do what I wanted, right?
Nope.
- It referenced files that didn't exist.
- It had badly escaped characters in the bash string.
- And after fixing that*, for some reason Git didn't accept it, even if it was well formatted, and the AI never told me that could happen.
* Mind you, fixing that took some time of reading documentation of git commands and options I never used, snooping around what was accessible in Git's internals during a rebase, rewriting the bash lines... like, I didn't even use any part of the AI solution.

Evidently Git's very hard even for AI lol
It's neither artificial nor intelligent, it's trash. 0 stars.
(I know Perplexity is not "an AI", it was most probably using ChatGPT. Can't bother to see how to check.)
Maybe I was using it wrong??

This world can fuck right off.

March of 2025. I dove into a depression as a complication of my bipolar 2. Has less mania and more I want to die episodes. I noticed this as losing all interest in everything in my life. I DIDN'T HEED THE WARNING!!!

This results in me being distracted at work and struggling to learn a new platform. It also doesn't help that my supervisor keeps pulling me off the project to work on other shit. ALL OF WHICH I COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY. They even gave me a 4% raise in March. Apparently it didn't help my depression.

We get to May and my supervisor takes away the programming tool used to program the platform I am working on (embedded processor). I complain and they say I am not getting it back. In my head I should have seen this as a fucking RED FLAG and pushed back.

Then in July the CTO says I need to have my code finished for the new platform in one month. I tell my supervisor I don't think I can (should have spoke up about the programming tool because I CAN'T TEST ANY FUCKING CODE!) He says: "I think you can do it!"

So I am trying to code blindly on a platform I can't test the code. I get to August and report I am testing code on Linux because I have no way to test on the platform. Apparently the CTO doesn't like this. So he starts sending people to walk by my office to "spy" on me because he suspects a character flaw. I don't realize this is happening until after the fact. Apparently I am on my phone too much (which is not typical, but I suspect my depression fucked me here).

I get called to a meeting with HR and my supervisor. They are firing me for performance and violating policy of using my phone outside of break times. This is August 14th. I am compliant and don't make a scene (it won't help). My supervisor is crying and the CTO made him fire me and sign everything.

The CTO also made a statement about how I was never deserving of the job title because I was never creative enough or good enough or some shit. This is the same guy that praised my past solutions for creativity and unique ways of solving the problems. The dude flat out lied and rewrote history. I even found a review from 2022 saying I was good at the role. Also, the dude gave me the damn job title. Up until this point I respected the guy. Now, I have lost all respect for him. It is one thing to fire for cause. It is another to lie about it sell the point.

On the way out the door my supervisor offered to be a reference for me. Several other people I worked with offered the same and couldn't fathom why I got fired. People I worked with for 7 years.

So I get thrown into the shittiest job market in the last 20 years. I can't find anything online or local. My fucking degree is a shit tech degree. So even though I can write decent software nobody wants to consider me because there hundreds of thousands of out of work SWEs on the market. I was already trying to recover from working at a shitty startup after losing a decent job due to a layoff. This was also affected by my un-diagnosed bipolar at the time. I made poor financial decisions because of some of my rare manic phases.

Unemployment from DOL finds that I was not at fault for being fired. They determined the company applied inconsistent policy on cell phone usage. Which is true to an extent. I have seen people take a lunch for 2 hours watching movies. Saw another dude sleep for 2 hours. Snoring and everything. But unemployment has no power other than giving me unemployment. Which isn't enough.

So now I am 3 months into job search and I find out that as much as 60% of the job postings on LinkedIn are fake. So there is a good chance that all of the jobs I applied for are fake.

My wife has a business, but it won't be enough when savings run out in 6 months. Because of the shit market I can't get a fucking job doing anything it seems.

I am tired, and the bullshit keeps piling up. I realize the only way I can survive is to create some kind of business.

I know, my perception of what happened is my perception. But if I was ever a valued employee they would have asked "What is wrong, and how can we help?" Instead I find out the CTO had harbored ill will toward me and NEVER FUCKING TOLD ME! I had asked for feedback in the past about my work and was told it was good work. I asked: "Am I too slow." The CTO said: "Your a little slow, but I don't have to worry about your code." Yet when they fired me they said I was getting complaints from other departments. But guess what? They NEVER FUCKING TOLD ME. This is the most sadistic way I have ever heard of managing people. Hold them to a standard that you never tell them about. I should have been clued into this when they fired the last guy. They never told anyone he was gone. I asked the CTO why they never told anyone. He said something about that is how that works. This is some serious mind fuck shit.

Being unemployed for the first time in 9 years is definitely more stressful than I thought. I have enough money to ride out a job search for about 8 months, but still. Not having recurring income for the first time is scary.

Client: "Can we have the info of the report as a spreadsheet?"
Sure. To minimise change, I just make it so that instead of the PDF report, the app downloads a zip file with the report, and an Excel file with the info.
A week later, the client: "when we download the list of evaluated people, it downloads a weird file there's no way of opening" (sic, except translation)

... What? Are we just stupid now? Even Windows explorer should be able to deal with that...

I HOPE I'm misunderstanding and there's a real issue, because if they really are complaining about using zip files... I don't know what I'll do.

I said it many times, I'll say it again: this advent of AI is the beginning of the IT seniors' golden age

HR positions are being replaced by AI [I know it for a fact]

Junior positions are getting replaced by ai in LT as well now.

I wonder.. Where will they get sr devs after 5-7 years from now, if noone new can get into the field any more 😁 ofc rehire from others.. But how will you attract them? With high salaries ofc :) I foresee a salary growth in IT in the next 5 years :)

I hate this country. I don't know why everybody was telling me to go back, that life was so much better here.

It doesn't. It suck dicks. I never got threaded good here. They can fuck off with my tax money

I wanted to show of my perfect based AI auto build tool but sadly, only very good computers can see it or phones. This image crashed my pc: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview....

Fun fact, I told my AI tool to investigate the upload mechanism of devrant.molo and upload it. He did it at once. How sick is that.

The whole tool is native python, no dependencies.