• resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Managers about to find out the hard way that all the requirements are in the brains of those they laid off.

    I’m sure coding bootcamp and AI will turn them into leet hax0rs.

    • IMALlama@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I feel this in my bones. Even before the recent round of restructuring we’ve had a significant about of turnover. Our infrastructure is a massive rube golberg machine with multiple houses of cards built on top of it. Institutional knowledge was never written down and it has been leaving the company at an accelerating rate over the past 5 years. Tons of “new blood” making lots of assumptions on how things work is resulting in… humorous end results.

    • ripcord@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Definitely happening at at least one major company I’m familiar with.

      Requirements and everything else.

  • vordalack@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Good, I hope so. Whatever puts an end to the hipster, activist dev is a solid win.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    “Can we jazz it up a bit?”

    This is a real request from a real manager. They have played us for absolute fools.

    • slappypantsgo@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      My favorite was to make it “crisp”. My boss was sympathetic when I joked about it being “crispy and delicious” but he still acted like we basically should have known what that means.

  • ramjambamalam@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    A highly respected school teacher of mine was known to say, “Say what you mean; mean what you say.”

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    AI can’t replace programmers right now, but I’ve said all through my software dev career that our ultimate goal is to eliminate our jobs. Software will eventually be able to understand human language and think of all the right questions to ask to turn “Customer wants a button that does something” into an actual spec that generates fully usable code. It’s just a matter of time. Mocking AI based on what it currently can’t do is like mocking airplanes because of what they couldn’t do in the 1920s.

    • Shanmugha@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I had a number of points to discuss, but they pale before this:

      Software will eventually be able to understand human language

      First, someone surely must have tried to code it, but I never heard of any system like that. Second and more important: anyone understands how we understand? And how the distance between understanding and communicating is covered? Someone? Anyone?

      And before some smart person tries for the thousand’s time this “but computers will get bettah” shit of argument: even with the whole task of putting it to code aside, we know shit about how we think, understand and speak, that’s coming from me having Master’s degree in linguistics

      • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yes, the main problem with developing AI is that we really don’t understand how we think. Current AI doesn’t understand anything, it just imitates human output by processing a vast amount of existing output. But we do know a lot more now about how we think, understand and speak than we did a hundred years ago, and as a linguist you know this work isn’t standing still,. Compare it with genetics - 70 years ago we didn’t even know about DNA, and now we can splice genes. The fact that there’s still a lot of baseline work to do shouldn’t cast doubt on the goal, should it?

          • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            For almost all of those thousands of years, no tools existed to analyze the actual mechanics of brain function. The development of all sciences has been exponential in the last couple centuries. I’ll be here if you decide you want to converse like someone with a master’s degree instead of a mediocre high school student scrolling lemmy on the toilet.

  • KulunkelBoom@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    How about… AI replaces government officials! A lot cheaper. Might actually get things right. And how could it fuck up any worse than what we have?

    • mcv@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      “You mean you want it to corrupt your data and end up with conflicting changes once you share it?”

      • filcuk@lemmy.zip
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        1 year ago

        That depends. Is the spreadsheet doing what it’s intended for, or one of the hundreds of things it can do but really shouldn’t?

        I’ve made my fair share of spreadsheets, including time tracking, vehicle scheduling, email automations, map integrations, god forgive me even ‘databases’ - all of that because no one was willing to pay for a proper solution.

        So I’m not saying spreadsheets can’t or shouldn’t ever be used for those things, but a dedicated solution for a problem may indeed be a good reason to change things.

      • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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        1 year ago

        They change it because they need more money. (talking about Excel here)
        And soon you’ll see ads in the fn suggestions drop down
        and ads in unused cells
        and ads while the Solver is running (made in VisualBasic, running on top of WebAssembly, running on interpreted Python, using a Java Interpreter on your Web Browser to make sure you watch the ad for as long as possible)

        And that’s why we need to make our own spreadsheet software.

    • ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      cries in left_pad

      It’s kind of astonishing how many people leaned on that library just to add fucking spaces to strings

      • boonhet@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        It should be in the standard library anyway. Why the hell is it not?!

        I mean yeah, I can write my own function to do the same thing and probably I’ve done it at some point in some coding exercise as a beginner, but this seems like such a common thing to use, it should be in the standard library of any sane language.

        • CXORA@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          1 year ago

          It is, as padStart, which makes the number of packages using leftpad even more incomprehensible

          • boonhet@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            Brb changing a million libraries on npm to use padStart instead of left-pad and removing the dependency

    • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.org
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      1 year ago

      Help, Debian has libbutton only in 1.4.3 and libdosomething is not in my repo. I compiled libdosomething from source, but now it needs libbutton >= 2.4.1 and compiling that version of libbutton fails, as my GCC and make are too old and incompatible!

      I already tried it on my other PC, but that isn’t based on glibc, which makes all these dependencies even worse…

  • rational_lib@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    AI Project Manager: Create a button on a webpage that, when clicked, displays an alert saying “Hello World!”
    AI Programmer: “What a sensible requirement! Here you go.”
    AI Billing Department: “Project completed, that’ll be 10 million dollars.”
    Client AI Payments Department: “Sounds right, paid!”

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      AI Quarterly Call Bot: Delivery is on time and synergy is high!

      AI investment selector: This company looks profitable. Purchase!