Other What's ruining your life right now?

So you use it as a [very] expensive rubber duck?

 

No, I use it as a tool for "no one has explicitly said that my job is at risk for not using this thing, but I know the stats are monitored and I know people have been challenged on their lack of use of it, so I will give the thing a task now and then, ignore its output, and then just do what I was always going to do" .

Occasionally its "answer shaped objects" have just the tiniest amount of useful information in them that I can refine my google searches and actually get better information. But if Google hadn't been deliberately made worse then I would be able to find what I was actually looking for in the first place.

 

Monitored similarly in my place but it is more a case they want to do a cost benefit analysis, a few engineers have used a ton of dough through improper use, as in bad techniques.

So if we are doing something that pulls a lot of coin we can be re-educated but the Core AI team.

 

We got told by a VP somewhere up the food chain from where I sit that using AI is a job requirement, and if we're not using the internal AI IDE (it's claude sonnet 3.7 I think, plus a few other helper models, on top of vscode), then "others will get ahead you."

 

You just tell the AI to clean up and optimise the code of course

 

Last night at 2am a pony escaped from a field over a mile from my house and went on a little adventure. That adventure ended at 3am when it shoved one of it's hooves through my gas meter. Small horse is fine, a nice policeman came a took it home. But my gas meter is borked and I got woken up by a stuck small horse at 3am.

What the actual.

 

Just sat in conservatory and could see water pouring down the kitchen window.. thought it was odd as it wasn't raining the bathroom above the kitchen has leaked the kitchen is destroyed, no part is dry it's coming from the lights down the side of the walls everywhere

 

They should be glad that they didn't get to the hallucination phase:

Vibe "coder": AI, you've added a random block of code into the middle of this file.
AI: I can't see anything. Where is it?
"Coder": It's here, on lines blah to blah
AI: Oh, yes. I see it now. You're so awesome to have spotted that. Let me fix it.
"Coder": You haven't fixed it, it's still there.
[and so the loop goes on and on]

I wish AI, but in particular vibe coding, would just die. It's going to cause so many problems down the line when all the real programmers have been sacked.
On the plus side, those programmers can come back in six month's time to fix the slop and charge consultancy rates.

 

The water has finally stopped pouring, had to turn the water off, got someone coming tomorrow, it took my 2 hours to take the side panel off the bath thanks previous house owner for how you decided to use plaster board and tiles.

Don't dare have any power anything on it kitchen, water has poured down walls from the light fitting everywhere where it even came out the window frame, lucky I've got a large dehumidifier I've had running all day draining out the window. into the gutter.

Just means baby wipes to clean myself till a plumber can come tomorrow,

 

All that and you don't even get a humorous anecdote about a horse.

 

We want to buy.

The seller wants to sell.

But the management company for the estate is unwilling to budge on a legal issue that basically makes the property un-sellable.

So today I’ve learned a lot about estate rent charges and the utterly draconian powers it gives to estate management companies.

This country sure as hell doesn’t seem to want to make it easy to buy a house…

 

Finally moving work PC to Win 11.
Put the kit in the case the last PC was in, and it won't boot.
I get I to Win 11 home screen if I'm lucky and it powers down.

I'll try it at home again tonight with a different PSU as I have no idea why it's playing up.

Checked RAM seating, 24 pin power, CPU power, nothing shorting the board.
Wasted a morning when I could have been doing something useful.
Payroll software won't run on win 10 as of Friday, so I'm now under more pressure

 

Scratched my new OLED monitor using a microfiber cloth. It was new, not contaminated, still scratched it. I'm not too happy about this.

 

This one hundred times over. Every time I have a code issue now, or say an issue is going to take a while to sort, my manager asks if I've tried using CoPilot or Gemini. I can actively feel myself getting more stupid despite barely using it.

 

The number of incidents at work has skyrocketed since it basically became mandatory to use AI - no I'm not joking. It's the numpties like me on the Infrastructure/DevOps/Cloud side that then have to pick up the peices with no accountability for those who ship the issues.

I'm quite a big proponant of using AI but eff me do people really not understand how to use it.

Just one of the many, many things doing my head in at the moment.

 

Tests and code reviewing become more important than ever as use of AI increases.

 

(Don’t take this as me picking on you specifically, @mi1ez!)

But even when you’re doing that, if you’re handing over development of your applications and infrastructure to a generative model, no one will have that wider understanding of how everything hangs together. You can check if the code is syntactically correct, unit tests can check whether a given function, method, module, etc, produces the right output, and regression tests can test whether degradations are introduced; but you can’t assess if the changes are going to break something else further down the line when no human knows how those systems interact.

“But then you just have AI fix it and have AI write the tests”, claim the boosters. Sure, go right ahead; the sheer volume of code it will produce will absolutely annihilate your token usage, your codebase will become a bloated spaghettified mess, you’ll have redundant functionality all over the place, and no one will be able to fix it because now it’s been massively overcomplicated.

I’ll keep saying this so long as I have breath to say it: the vast majority of a software developer’s job is not actually writing code.

 

Not least when you consider that AI might’ve written the tests and of course they pass because they test the outcome they wrote even if it’s not the outcome you wanted!

 

Oh, I'm still not sure I trust AI to actually write the tests too! I hate using AI and the movement towards it.