You must work in dreadful places. I’ve seen it a few times, but most places have been productive.

It needs a good lead dev to set the culture though.

Whitespace change debates can be avoided by using rule sets in IDEs and agreeing standards within the team.

Good static code analysis tools in pipelines and IDEs handle most technical issues leaving reviewers to focus on design, maintainability, clarity and readability.

You can avoid pickiness if you communicate why, so they learn and understand. If you use PRs as a training and learning tool they’re quite productive. If not sure, ask why something was done.

And if you get picky comments respond with “personal preference and not part of team rules”. But also, you cannot be defensive in your PRS. You have to be open to feedback and points and happy to discuss. Be polite even when feedback is invalid. Defendivesness kills constructive feedback and no matter how old you are and how long you’ve been doing it, you can still improve. Oh and if you been doing it that long, you’re a senior or lead and can influence how things are done.

Is GTFS short for Get The Fucking Schedule?

I want it to be true.

With some, deleting and recreating accounts may work. Some may be tricky.

The less Google usage, the less data they get, the less they understand about who you are now.

A distinct lack of integrity. I’ve avoided jobs for companies who I know build nasty stuff. I don’t want that on my conscience. If I’m semi-competent at my job, I’d be enabling the acceleration of that.

Surprised he got as far as he did. Every line of code that touches production should be reviewed.

If it’s shit, fail it until it ain’t. To allow that shows a distinct lack of technical leadership.

You’ve since shown far more and that should build trust. Never trust contractors without verification.

Actually if you cannot be replaced, you’re less likely to be promoted. How could they move you from your crucial work. You also show leadership by upskilling and building a team that is stronger and independent. If you can do that in a small team, you can do that at a larger scale.

If a company operates different, they’re broken.

Don’t let insecurity push you to sacrifice your integrity, you’ll hate yourself more.

Like?

Heroic doesn’t work in all cases. I have to have both installed to use my library.

I’ve had many issues with other software and ended up having to use Lutris.

Lutris may have bad code, but functionally mature is generally what succeeds. Sexy code that doesn’t work exists on a handful of computers only.

There is a reason we are talking about it. Its the most popular Linux launcher. Wishing that wasn’t true doesn’t change the fact it is.

I watched. He used a prompt with exact wording from an example and obviously it’s the most logical continuation, so AI would generated it. We know how they’re trained. But how many open source prompts will start with exact code and comment? Unlikely to ever happen in real world. So unlikely to he direct infringement. Someone could easily sue the AI companies with these examples to prove it infringes copywrite work, but then govs are going to protect them so it won’t happen.

It’s unlikely to get identical output without intention, but it’ll also take the infringed actively taking steps to sue that case. Stastical likelihood of this happening in real world is low.

I’m with you in wanting to watch the AI industry collapse. But I’m unfortunately in a minority without the lobbying power, so it won’t happen.

But there was attribution, so you can easily check out commit before attribution was removed, use git blame on class attribution to see when it started, and fork before it.

They can. They just need to find the first instance of AI, branch from the commit before and start with that as a basis for master. Then push that branch to their own remote.

If someone cannot do that, they probably aren’t competent enough to maintain a project of this importance. They can then cherry pick commits that are good and merge those. Or request others recreate new PRS with them with correct attribution. It’s tedious, but easy.

Maintainership isn’t fun. The hardest problem is finding someone that cares enough to take it on. Many would give advice if someone was willing.

Sounds like Lutris dev was burnt out, so it would probably quickly replace it.

I think you misrepresented it. Lemmy dev says it needs to be declared and AI is useful for some operations but it must pass review.

I don’t use AI, and think the code is crap, but assisted is different when in skilled hands.

The only issue here is your absolute no vs lemmy’s pragmatic no unless used as a tool in small instances. There are better hills to die on than this and you’ll just lose support for whatever objective you have.

Shame he didn’t spend time reading up on SOLID principles, clean code, refactoring and TDD. Sounds like Jr parading as a senior. Product nerd != good developer.

Most seniors got burned so much, they refuse to build complex unsupportable stuff. KISS is king with top devs.

The fact this dude has the most experience says everything about your orgs hiring processes. Cheaping out on senior salaries.

I don’t. I just export to PDF if I need them to see formatting the same.

I mean, if it’s a bank, they’ve probably got some BS dress policy and it’s chinos, shirt, shoes.

Polo shirts aren’t smart. Folk play tennis in them and the collar is floppy AF. They look scruffier than plain round neck T-shirt.

Pick a game engine. Godot is pretty sweet. Get started and follow a tutorial.

Choose whether you want to do 2D games or 3D. If 2D, start learning pixel art. If 3D. Learn 3d modelling software like blender. There is plenty to learn, but you can do it, so just start. Maybe pick a ridiculously small scope project to start and learn.

That’s great to hear. Congratulations on the pay rise. You’ve clearly got valuable, transferable soils.

It is hard to keep detached, as we never truly own it until it’s ours. Good to hear you got free hardware. It’s my favourite price.

China? Silk Road dude was distracted by 2 enforcement offices while several arrested and grabbed the laptop. If you’re doing things that draw that level of resourcing, that’s on you. I don’t think any civilian had a 9 person heist for a laptop in China… Unless you have a reference… But I doubt it…

Edit: oops. This is old. Hope you’re OK and things improved.

You’re grieving for what you built. It’s good to take pride and push for better. However, you don’t own it. They pay for your time and your expertise. Love your skills and the learning. If the environment stops being right for you, plot your escape at a time that suits. Companies make shit decisions, they have and always will. They sometimes lead you to believe you have influence while it benefits then with your commitment/engagement. When that no longer suits, its the end.

What you feel is valid, it’s good you have standards and care. It’s now time to understand work is generally an exploitative relationship. Protect yourself and understand you’re being used. Find a situation where being used feels good for now and good for your bank balance.

Appreciate the feedback.

I’ve seen it one other time. If you see it again, feel free to report it. It definitely helps get visibility of it.