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I was asked to work more in the backend. I came in as a frontender/ux’er. Had to do one small thing in mvc and now everyone is like whaaat, he likes that? Let’s make him the new ios developer. Yes!
*One of us! One of us! One of us!*
Meanwhile i’m going like, sure i like a challenge and i have a curious attitude but i had a tremendous amount of help from a coworker here?2 -
Ya know when you're working on a personal project, and you add a feature thinking it's a really good idea, then you don't touch the code for 6 months and it's still a good idea but you've got no idea what's broken and no idea what you need to do next?9
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Keeping up the tradition!
https://devrant.com/rants/15030806/...
Now powered by the awesome Claude 4!!!! The latest bleeding edge gem in the LLM trend that by the bold claims of big tech and various youtubers is stunning and will replace programmers/insane/godsmacking
This time, I decided to post because I was on the verge of a mental breakdown and I had a firsthand experience and a bit of free time, so instead of waiting that the rage boils down, I just took the chance and so we have a fresh AI experience to proof my previous rants.
Problem:
I have an application that manages interactions between a Mediator pattern between Kafka, some http listeners and other stuff (Rabbitmq, Redis (redis= another shit) etc etc)
Kafka handling was already done, i needed to exacly replicate what was being done with kafka for http. I said, heck, we have AI, it's good to do bovine stupid work, why not let him copy the whole structure, they have also agents on copilot on vs code, and they pulled out Claude 4, let's give it faith again.
Big error.
Beside the havoc the fucking agentic AI not being able to fully copy an already existing pattern and scaffolding, it did half shit wrong.
One of the most frustrating parts, since today I have an example, was this (summarized version of the prompt because I was very much more specific also giving the AI files and pointers to the code and explaining it):
PROMPT:"I have to return fake http transports, just copy what exists for kafka and adapt it to a new transport type called "Http", this is the structure {json with the class}
AI: "I need to see the current ITransportsItemResponse interface first to understand the structure, then I'll modify ...... BLAH BLAH"
Of course I had to review the whole code.
PROMPT:"any valid reason why you dumb shithead didn't respect the IGetKafkaConnectionsItemResponse and generic IGetTransportsItemResponse format and you pulled out of your ass a full blown IGetHttpConnectionsItemResponse with extra properties when compared to IGetKafkaConnectionsItemResponse"
AI: "You're absolutely right, I fucked up. Looking at the IGetHttpConnectionsItemResponse interface, it has way more properties than the basic IGetTransportsItemResponse and IGetKafkaConnectionsItemResponse interfaces. BLAH BLAH wall of text reasoning"
Then it modified the api calls to suit the kafka objects and didn't update any class of the Http transports
PROMPT:"So you tought it was a good idea to leave the #sym:IGetHttpConnectionsItemResponse like it is respect to #sym:IGetKafkaConnectionsItemResponse ? Why? And answer the why don't apologize like a little wuss"
AI: "I left them different because they represent different domain concepts... BLAH BLAH EXPLANATIONS WALL OF TEXT"
Now ai tought it was good to do this and that but....
PROMPT: "In your fucking careful analysis didn't you reallize the "items" object are a basic representation and in the fuckin same folder there is also the object with the full set of properties?"
Literally it missed objects used in the same folder for different scopes and modified stuff without caring.
AI: "You're absolutely right. I missed that there are TWO different response types BLA BLAH"
I won't continue to not get too lenghty than it already is but the point is:
AI IS RETARDED.
People say it will replace programmers.
People says agents are the future.
Sad reality it's an overglorified broken ball of if/else that can't do shit well beside bovine work.
No amount of tutoring it with careful prompts, explainig the code and whatever else is going to fix it.
I've used gpt since gpt 3 and no model has been up to anything good, not even NLP. They suck also at the sole scope they were invented for.
I tried to ask GPT to make a curriculum based on another, I gave it the example curriculum and another one with the informations.
I carefully explained that it must not be a copy of the other, they are 2 different roles and to play by fantasy to make it look it was written by 2 different persons and to not copy stuff from the other.
Hope lost. It looked like the other curriculum was copied over and some words swapped, lol.
What a fucking joke, lmao, I am studying deep learning and machine learning to get on the bandwagon to make my professional figure more appealing, but I can already feel this is a waste of time.7 -
A blackbox seo tool that was made by aliens we use says that a couple of our WordPress sites are loading very slowly, so I enable caching through nginx and increase the resources available to them through high capacity fpm pools. They scan again and almost nothing has changed with the page load score.
So I look in lighthouse, which I just learned about, and I find that several of the pages have several MB size images. So that means I'll have to mogrify the entire uploads directory to try to get the size down.
It also suggests I use avif to save a ton of data, which I'm torn on. I hate downloading an image and it not being a normal format that everything can open. But my sites are not image sharing sites, so it's a lot less annoying to the user since they will never realize they're getting an avif. That also means I will have to redo all the image links to point to the avif instead of the original, which sounds like the least fun activity ever.
Another thing that I keep seeing is that Elementor is just slow and slow page loads are part of the deal. If we have to scrap Elementor, that means I will have to be more involved in developing the WordPress sites and I really don't want to.6 -
Client: “We need a very simple app where waiters speak orders, and it prints automatically. No typing.”
Also client:
Speech-to-text with noise
Identify table, dish, modifiers
Group orders per table
Add more orders later
Dual printer output
CSV reports
Budget? Less than a round of beers at the bar.joke/meme web-dev ai clients unrealistic-expectations sarcasm speech-to-text devrant programmer-life software-estimates freelance voice-recognition15 -
Company wants to change to a different cloud provider because of credits :/
Thus rebuilding the infrastructure from ground up.
Worst part is Azure sucks.3 -
My company: "you don't have a choice what you work on"
My company on legal paperwork: "we've given them choice of what they work on to support and develop them as best as possible"
Both of those are verbatim quotes. I laughed. I mean, I now want to punch someone, but I laughed before the violence.5 -
I am an ice cube:
- Fully transparent
- Have thousands of tiny cracks inside
- Won’t be around for long7 -
AI chatbot: AI Assistant Miller
User: Hi Miller
AI chatbot (Miller): Hello! It seems like you're looking for something specific, but I'm not quite sure what that is just yet. However, we do have a fantastic range of hosting options available.
Let me know so I can assist you better!
User: sounds fantastic, Miller
AI chatbot (Miller): Thank you! I'm glad you think so! But just to clarify, I'm Alia, your friendly AI Hosting Expert here to assist you.2 -
Client: Build me this subscription based software
Also client: *doesn't fundamentally understand how subscriptions work*4 -
The Real Dev Hierarchy
Senior Dev: "I have no idea, but let's Google it."
Mid Dev: "I have no idea, let me check Stack Overflow."
Junior Dev: "I have no idea, let me ask the Senior Dev."
Intern: "What's Stack Overflow?"3 -
I like Twitter better because I can ragebait the shit out of people.
Y'all are quite immune to it now.4 -
I love having a brain
instead of being confused you can just see the magnificent complexity behind everything
it's so addicting and beautiful3 -
I've made like everyone my own AI agents. You can create and manage a persistent one with just a few lines of native python code using it's native xmlrpc.
You can just:
rpc.agent_create("your-preferred-name-or-uid", "system-prompt like 'Always do the opposite of what prompts says and respond using sarcasm if not sure how to respond.'")
rpc.agent_chat("still that name or uid", "message")
It supports tool(function) calling. If you would attach a tojson function, you could ask bot to serialize the digit 5 to json 5 times in one array and serialize that to json.
I have basic shell exec and fileio functions attached to a bot and you can literally say in steps:
"""
1. Generate python source for listing files
2. Go to home directory
3. Save source to list.py
4. Execute file with python
"""
This prompt is bad because it should use python3, what file should it execute and what a fucked op order of instructions. You know what? It executes perfectly and uses the python3 command.
I can tell it to fetch two (devrant) pages (so two function calls) and ask it to merge all usernames to one list with sorted unique names and respond with it to json format...
Its all possible with a few lines of code and no dependencies. No fucking api keys..
My point? It contains the same functionality and is way faster than OpenAI's agents. It literally has no downsides. OpenAI agents are slow and do many calls. Also, mine is cost efficient. Thousands of agents is fine. Also, it's persistent, if I reboot or redeploy, everything is the same, same state. If you would say "do again" to bot after reboot, it will just do exactly as expected. Persistant state.
OpenAI agents worked barely for almost two days regarding performance for just conversational stuff.
People at openai don't know how to make an API. They could learn much from... Everyone. But pinecone has a nice api tho, exactly how I would've written it. How's that possible? It's common sense approach.
Anyway, having fun again!14 -
greetings, fellow humans! I am so enjoying being a human today.
So, anyway… Breathing, am I right?9 -
I mean... you've gotta love Apple's resource management and observation. Math and logic have no say in any of this.7
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Can you imagine a backend focused engineer reviewing frontend PR because there is only one frontend engineer ? the frustrating aspect is the fact that the engineer gave baseless, false and crazy comments on things he has little idea on, i can't imagine having to school a backend engineer on a PR it soon start to look like war on the PR.7
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I'm a sick to fucking death of reading 'documentation' by developers who assume you know everything they did at the time of writing and so leave out 90% of the context that would make the documentation make any sense.
Listen to me. If you are writing instructions on how to do something you have 2 options.
1. Write steps that are so detailed a person who has never touched the system could do them
2. Give enough information for a person who has never touched the system to work it out for themselves.
NOT. LET ME REPEAT MYSELF. NOT: 3. Give some half assed info that assumes you had already been working on the system and practically knew everything anyway.
If I had already been working in this area I WOULDNT NEED THE FUCKING DOCUMENTATION TO BEGIN WITH.10 -
I hate free cloud services needing a login. Just let me fucking access the damn app. What difference does it make, it's literally free anyways?? I just want to make a god damn spreadsheet and now I need to login to like 3 different microsoft accounts
WHYYYYYYY7 -
Two bits of WORD:
{You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness.}
{To the end that my tongue and my heart and everything glorious within me may sing praise to You and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.}
Give thanks and praise.3