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• Post #4330943

  Days since last API incident: 0 A colleague quietly changed the behavior of an API and broke mobile apps in production without anybody noticing until I did today. "Whoops, now we can't fully revert the changes because the frontend in production is already relying on the new behavior." Why do mobile apps always have to pay the price and get the blame? #API #mobiledev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSKp2StlS6s

• Post #4330942

  In other news, LinkedIn added a funny but deceiving "Seems like AI slop" button to their website and apps. Not to show you less AI slop but to help them avoid feeding AI slop to their AI models. #linkedinlunatics

• Post #4330941

  Someone got promoted at Google for coming up with one of the worst usages of Gen AI I can think of. This is outright dangerous and irresponsible. https://www.404media.co/google-earths-new-ai-lets-anyone-fabricate-completely-bullshit-satellite-images/

• Post #4330940

  Any fan of point-and-click adventure games out here? I have a Steam key for Syberia 4 (The World Before) to give away. It's not very challenging but features a great story and stunning graphics.

• Post #2499506

  If you're late to the party like me, here's one of the most interesting articles about using LLMs for coding: "Your LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code." https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code

• Post #2261976

  Of course Odoo added an AI chatbot button in their main interface and there is no setting to remove it, despite the chatbot saying otherwise. https://www.odoo.com/documentation/master/applications/productivity/ai.html

• Post #2261974

  An engineering lead at my client's company often compares developers using coding agents to farmers using industrial tools to increase their production instead of handcrafting everything. This analogy always felt wrong and now I understand why: code is reusable and doesn't need to be mass produced. Code is the tailor-made tools that controls your production. And you need all the craftsmanship you can get to make these tools as reliable as you can to ensure production doesn&#...

• Post #2261971

  #Cloudflare #layoffs

• Post #1677012

  Omarchy is still listed on https://frame.work/linux 😔

• Post #1677009

  My client is insisting for me to actively try AI agents to "see how they can help me work more efficiently". But it's not actually about efficiency because I believe I'm already efficient enough: I do alone in 4 days what two colleagues do on iOS in 5 days. Not thanks to "AI" but thanks to a sane codebase that I know well and excellent tools. It's about optics and marketing, being able to say to customers that "our product was...

• Post #570886

  I want to warmly thank #Square engineers for Dagger, OkHttp, Okio, Retrofit, Moshi, Picasso, JavaPoet and KotlinPoet, Seismic, TimesSquare, LeakCanary, Anvil, Wire, Tape, SQL Brite and SQLDelight, Otto and other outstanding contributions to the Android and Java ecosystems. It's truly the end of an era. #Block #layoffs #AndroidDev