So the gaming industry was having huge profits (2024?), then they decided to layoff a bunch of people for "reasons", which displaced a bunch of people in the industry, who then became indies and are making good money, and people working for studios are salty about something they caused?

https://reddit.com/r/gaming/...

How cancerous do you have to be in your industry to be pissed at people trying to recover from your cancer?

"deprofessionalization" is this corporate speak for "doesn't have a cushy middle management job at EA"? I tried looking up the meaning and came away even more confused. You aren't a real gaming dev if you don't work for a huge studio?

Weird way to de-legitimize people who had to look for work elsewhere. The people who left or got laid off are escaping a shitscape for sure.

these pills are literally giving me suffering all over my body

it isn't aches or pain. it's always suffering. I can deal with aches and pain. but this is just pure suffering. all the fucking time. jesus fuck I feel so violent. if I get mad and explode I feel better for about 5 minutes but then I exhaust myself doing it, and then next time it gets harder to do. how do I escape this cage

can't sit down still much less fucking concentrate on anything. both these cause suffering to mount. what the fuuuuck

before magic would get me out of it but now I'm demoralized and exhausted. I keep eating people's energy and it only helps for a couple hours. I wonder if turning into a crying vegetable would help. or maybe I'll just scream like a crazy person for a few hours. surely you must get used to it but it's been over a week now

kicker is, suffering isn't one of the symptoms of the pill. "restlessness" is as if they don't know why a person would feel fucking restless. joke.

... you know one dude said you gotta feel it to heal it so maybe I repressed my sickness so much for the 3 years I stored it all in my body as fibromyalgia (which I did have inflammation of) and now I just get to feel echoes of what happened that didn't previously go through my nerves because I was doing my damn best to block them out but maybe that's too crazy a thought. better explanation than these doctors just being oblivious though

What the fuck is this AI bullshit?

I mean, whatever you try to do takes 2834570892 gigs of space, $19357413 worth of GPU VMs and a metric fuck ton of "what the fucks?!?!" per minute of trying to figure out how to get this fucking bullshit to just.fucking.work.

Backstory: trying to put together a service that answers a simple fucking section: "does any other user use this photo?"

Obviously, you can't just pass two photos to a function and have it say true or false without ending up paying more than you'd make by selling half of england's kids' kidneys. What if it's cropped? what if it's inverted? what if it's been used in a different resolution? what if it's been converted to black& white? what if it's been resized?

FUCK

WHAT THE FUCK

It had to turn into yet another PhD research session

FUCK ME

2 million years of evolution and we can't have a simple mother fucking gem that tells you if a picture is there or not

Enter AI, mankind's latest saviour that "does everything and it does it better than people", and allegedly cheaper since pretty much everybody and their fucking rabid pekingese are whining that "AI WilL taKE mY FucKinG JoB omG it's BooMerS faUlT they destroy our planet and our lives".
Anyway, let's fucking google this shit because some other idiot must have figured this out by now: 20+ different web services doing what I need (basically "describe an image in detail" so I can plug whatever it spits out into a method that fuzzy matches against other descriptions in a table... along with other methods that check using other strategies) so yeah, let me just click the "Pricing" page and... what the actual FUCK $1 to describe an image? I will buy a 787 full of chinese and paki kids and force them to describe images 24/7 in my basement for less than what I'd pay those fuckers for their service

Anyway, let's pull out plan C, forget those wankers, let me see how the fuck it's done and I'll set it up to run on some machine somewhere... llm llava ollama fuck-in-the-face... what the fuck were those people high on when they named all this crap? Nevermind. Spent 6 fucking days getting it to install and run (have you fuckers ever heard of developer experience or user experience? fuckheads) but still can't use it because it takes $2000/mo in GPUs to DESCRIBE A FUCKING IMAGE.

FUCK.ALL.OF.THIS.

You are considered a junior developer when you need 'a lot of hand-holding'. Now, I can figure out most things on my own, but how do you distinguish between 'needs too much hand-holding and therefore is a junior' and 'does ok and therefore is a medior'?

For example, I can do well on basic things and getting projects set up, but then I might need more help if errors truly become too cryptic or difficult to solve and I haven't found solutions. A few examples here:
- having messed up the git branches and releases so much that you need someone with a deep knowledge and troubleshooting of git to set the situation straight
- spending a week on trying to figure out why Azure doesn't want to successfully build your super custom build and it takes ages to figure it out because it requires in-depth Docker, linux knowledge and stellar, MIT-level troubleshooting and analytical skills

And so, someone who needs help with these is considered a junior?

How do you really identify a junior? Seems vague.

Writing concurrent code is hard, but testing it, is something else. I'm almost sure my implementation is flawed, but I can't get the tests to fail!

I'm in the process of suing my employer and I've mentally checked out of my job.

Funny enough, threatening the assholes that threatened to fire me if I didn't come into the office "for the benefit of my mental health" has significantly improved my mental health.

I raised AI integration to a new level: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/Screenc...

It knows what i have on screen using OCR, it knows what windows I have open using X11 API, it knows my current environment information so it knows that it can execute and stuff.

Also, check the picture, what a genius. But I hate their babysitting so much, let the AI's just do what we ask. If we want to share an API key, we share an API key and use it in a script! It's MY responsibility. I'm an adult y'know.

When someone writes a Flutter app like it's 1998 and blames Flutter for being "too hard" and "DIfficult"

First of all… WTF?

This guy wrote an entire Flutter app like it's HTML + CSS cosplay. No use of Flutter’s built-in Drawer, AppBar, or BottomNavigationBar. Instead? He manually built his own versions of all of them using Container, Row, and Column, all dumped inside the body. Literal pixel pushing. He made a fake AppBar inside the body. A fake Drawer inside the body. A fake BottomNav inside the body. It's like UI inception. Then he turns around and says “Flutter is hard.”

Bro… you made it hard. Flutter gave you prebuilt widgets. You chose pain.

Zero data structures. No architecture. No MVC.
The only MVC I found was: Multiple Voids in Class.

And the documentation? It's literally been around since 2018. Not even buried, just a Google search away.

Then came the excuses:
“Oh he’s from a Delphi / ASP.NET background, so Flutter is difficult for him.”

No. I’ve coded in Erlang and COBOL. You don’t see me turning Flutter into Erlang’s syntax disaster or WRITING DART IN ALL CAPS like COBOL.

Choose a paradigm. Functional? Procedural? OOP? Fine. Just don’t mix all three into some cursed hybrid mess.

What did I see in the code?

Recursion inside recursion for no reason

Functional programming patterns mixed with anti-OOP logic

500+ functions declared, zero referenced

Authentication by writing to file.txt. Like… bro, why?

And then there’s navigation. He stored route info in both SQLite AND SharedPreferences before pushing a new route. Why both? Why at all?

Honestly, Flutter has been one of the cleanest and most developer-friendly frameworks I’ve used. Dart is readable, fast, and predictable. But somehow this guy managed to turn a simple Flutter app into a twisted assembly simulator from hell.

Flutter didn’t fail him. He failed Flutter.

And yeah — the project folder was named Flutter_UI_Test_FINAL_v2_Rebuild_2023_OK and full of main_old.dart, main_old(copy).dart, main.dart.bak. I should’ve known from the start.

Really.......Some dev are idk what to describe

refer: https://devrant.com/rants/18897167/...

Is this heaven?

A post with many thumb up reactions with different skin tones, of course counted separately.

👍6 👍🏻3 👍🏼4 …

Because apparently it matters who is agreeing as a white person and how many agree as persons with a slightly darker skin tone. 🤦‍♂️
This is so fucking dumb.

Internet freedom is decapitated.
I miss the old internet so much, it was anarchy and today is a corporate globalist blob of control and censorship.
I feel it's lost and there's no alternative anymore, at least not yet.

I was replaced by AI.

Because I couldn’t be replaced directly, e.g. by using AI to do my job, the job description itself was changed as the business pivoted.

We used to be a software development company. Now, we’re an online AI school. The thing about AI schools is that you can monetize unfinished prototypes — the only thing AI is good at — and the process of making them.

I wasn’t strictly “replaced” — they just found a small-scale way to not need engineers at all.

Well, it’s time to make my own startup!

Damn these AI models...

Sure, I'll just find the error in this very intelligible stack

(it's just HALF of the stack)

2 margaritas, 1 litre of beer and two rejection letters later. Tuesdays are great.

fucking code tests are retarded. if you just want a programmer, hire a fucking gpt instead. stop wasting my time. hr people send the most retarded emails ever.

Could one go to the center of the sun in a giant freeza?

Been at interview today for some mobile banking app. Female interviewer describes the process: tech scrrwning for their company, then tech interview for client company, then coding challengde than hiring manager offer. I said I am not doing that, I cannot pass those, my brain freezes at those challenges. I can offer pair programing up to two hours with their programmer. Interview ended quickly amd I am glad I stood up against that nonsense.

Looking for a new laptop on your current laptop that has served you for years. How heartless can you be?

I may frame this.

girls: please, be gentle.
also girls, 0.001 seconds after you breathe down their neck: PLEASE FUCK ME AS HARD AS YOU CAN WHILE HITTING ME IN THE FACE WITH THIS BRICK AND CALLING ME YOUR SISTER’S NAME

˙uɹnʇ ʎɯ s,ʇI

You can be jealous, it's fine.

Freelancers, where and how do you find clients?

And how's the whole freelancing thing working out?

Lol just realized that in BBC Micro, both “BBC” and “micro” words can be used to describe cock. So BBC Micro is an oxymoron.

Product idea:
Create an app to dox people. Then with poor coding skills dox the entire app community.

Hearing DHH call vibe coding "empty calories" is

👏 on 👏 fucking 👏 point 👏

you know what? I'm gonna say the n-word whenever I feel like it. Of 88 English-speaking territories, exactly one did import people from Africa to enslave them. My home country wasn't doing that. I don't work in the US of A, I don't live there, so fuck off with your US defaultism. US of A's "culture" is not the default/main culture of the world.

You cry freedom of speech, then ban some words based on someone's skin color. If that's not racism and hypocrisy, I don't know what is.

I won't say it on devRant because I'm not anonymous, and I don't want some job to not hire me because of this stupid shit. I'm not afraid to admit it. Also, devRant is an american platform, so yeah.

If I came to the US of A, I wouldn't have been saying the n-word there, because when you're a guest, you gotta respect the rules of the house that hosts you. My problem with a certain one house is that this house thinks its borders end nowhere, so everyone must obey their rules wherever they live. Miss me with that shit.

My boss is making me work on a "senior full-stack" contract he took (i am a junior frontend developer). Of course, they aren't supposed to know he isn't the one working, and I can't really talk in meetings, so I have to listen while texting him responses. What's more, he wants me to preempt what someone might say so I can give responses faster for his conversation to flow. Bruh.
I'm supposed to do this without exposing that I'm not a senior developer.
It's been 4 months, and I've been able to do the work so far, but I am severely burnt out.
I wake up every day hoping they at least find out he's not currently in the same continent as the company as he's required to be.
Never would have thought my 2nd year in tech would be like this.
Exp points, I guess.
FML

What did a roman legionaire said after finishing crucifying jesus christ? Nailed it!

Our HR person is "currently on leave", but it's not any kind of official time off according to our work calendar. I hope she's getting fired.