I just tried GPT5.

I hope coding got way better since I am so done with half delivered applications. The output window wasn't so big of the previous ones.

I just generated a simple AI chat by providing my own AI client that i prefer and with a nice screenshot of the current applicaiton (how it should like) and it did a great job. No mistakes, perfectly the right look.

I'm hopeful.

Currently still have subscription to Claude,GPT, Gemini and Grok. Everyone has their own advantages. All totally worth it.

An endpoint called TryFailedCopyDocuments which is called unconditionally in the happy path, calls into a service to update session data, then separately checks whether the service is live which could only be false if the service died shortly after the previous call, then if it was live, does a separate blocking call into the service to copy some files, and if it wasn't, copies the files within the request handler thread.

Title:- When the Code Runs, But You Don’t Know Why 😵‍💫

I wrote a piece of code last night at 2 AM. Eyes half-shut, brain running on caffeine and regret. Woke up today, ran the code… and it worked. Flawlessly.

The only problem?
I HAVE NO IDEA WHY.

No comments.
No memory of what I was trying to do.
Variables named like x1, x2, and idk.
It’s elegant. It’s efficient. It's... suspicious.

Now I'm afraid to touch anything because clearly, 2 AM Me unlocked some higher dimensional dev mode.

So here I am, documenting the "miracle" like it’s ancient alien tech.
Praying future me never has to debug this.

Send help. Or more coffee.
(Preferably both.)

#devLife #SleepCoding #CodeGodAtMidnight

The symbol for things to avoid in biology: ☣️
The symbol for things to avoid in physics: ☢️
The symbol for things to avoid in IT: ✨

i started smoking cigarettes 1 year ago. and its getting more intense. i only smoke when i am overburned with HEAVY. HEAVY FUCKING STRESS.

11 august 2024 i had a mental breakdown. complete crashout due to losing ANOTHER 2000$ on $VINE coin

i crashed out so hard. so badly. in front of my parents. dad picked me up from floor and hugged me and he was shaking. mom was comforting me confused and scared. i uncontrollably breathed hard shaked and cried.

thats why i started.

crypto was the trigger to start smoking for the first time ever after 27 years.

now 28 years later i am still smoking but very rarely. took me 1 year to smoke 1 pack of cigs. now im on a 2nd pack.

i smoke 2-4 cigs per session one after another.

am i fucking going insane?

Why does everything require an account these days?
I just wanted to try out a simple to-do list app. Next thing I know, it's asking for my email, phone number, and the name of my first pet. I'm not buying a house — I just want to tick off "buy milk."
Whatever happened to lightweight, no-signup tools? Devs, bring back simplicity please.
/end rant

lemurians were punished by knee and ear ligament removal

Ahoy ye coders lol

Someone's slack status shows them as in a meeting until 3:42 and that's just such an oddly specific meeting end time.

Somebody suggested eating substitute bath salts...

You know it's a human if he doesn't knows to answer 🤣

Opinion: companies desperately need CBD engineers.

For a minute, forget about AI agents, GenAI, Observability, CI/CD, OO, Functional, Quantum Computing, OR, SAP, DevOps, AI Ops, ML Ops, Prompt Engineering, Data Viz, Blockchain, and even Scripting and Compiled languages.

Think about how companies approach problems nowadays.
Some executive sees something on a conference, panics and hires a dozen highly paid individuals with some soothing credentials. Those individuals whisper some magic words, the executive makes some grand speeches about how his company is totally one of the cool kids, and the poor actual employees get sucked into another useless fad.
Then costs get too high, street creed (NASDAQ Symbol: FOMO) falls 35% or more, and layoffs come for everyone involved.

Imagine if it all could be avoided with the appropriate mix of CBD and THC. The CBD engineer makes some magic potion, the executive gets mellowed out and employees get to actually work on profit-generating activities.
Seriously, give some chemical pacifier to executives and call it something dumb like "mindfulness performance enhancer" so they can feel like big boys.
I wouldn't mind working while a suit eats 2kg of cheetos and wonders if the stars are winking at his crotch, so long as the suit stays on his fucking lane and let me do what I do best.

But that ain't ever gonna work, suits gonna suit. They will want to mess stuff up just so they can pretend their parents love them.
Thus, here we are. When actual devs have to speak nonsense and pretend that AI is real. Just so they can pocket some of that FOMO cash before the ship sinks and drags down honest working people.
We need an UBI just so that everyone in a company can jump ship as soon as a suit starts blabbering about the next big fad. I'm betting it will be VR/AR again.

I have great news for several reasons. First of all, I have documented the whole devRant API now with some help of AI to resolve requests and made a script to resolve the responses and merged that together in a README.md and updated the docstrings of my devranta api client.

This is a big deal, because with such complete api class, you can vibe whatever advanced devRant bot you can imagine in a hour or so. Could make a wordle bot like Snek has. Just an example.

But besides that, I vibed a devRant API crawler using my devRanta class. It searches what users are connected to what rants and reversed since dr doesn't allow to browse the whole site per pagination. Wonder why.

The crawler is in the examples/crawler directory. If you have python3 already installed, the only think you have to run is go into that folder, and it will download whole devRant.

I hope that my work will contribute to the creator of the next devRant or for the training of an LLM or such. It's a nice dataset. The crawler pulls on my terrible slow 4g connection 272,340 rants per hour. The crawler is an beast actually and easy to fine tune regarding workers etc.

Long story short: get the whole devRant dataset by executing once `make`. And don't worry, the API can handle it easy.

@Lensflare, is it already possible to delete your account in your app? I've documented that as well :P

While a lot is vibed, it required quite some steps to pull all off together. I hope somebody takes my advise to vibe some nice bots with it.

If you take my example project files and the devRanta client yourself, you have enough information to generate a whole devRant site clone easy. I think in one day, you can have like 80% from the default user functionality. Maybe even a good idea to also give a few screenshots to the LLM.

https://retoor.molodetz.nl/retoor/...

People, please don't eat when I smoke, it annoys me.

I don't care anymore if someone has problem with my smoke. It's for three minutes pussies. Live and let live! It's getting out of control with those complainers.

I really stop taking the people around me in consideration regarding that. Because they also don't give a fuck about my comfort. Always passive aggressive like moving to another table with complaining just loud enough that I can hear about the smoking.

I do not smoke when someone is eating next to me - but people are up front already pissed off. You know what freaking stinks? Your 16,- tosti!

And you know- since people are too weak these days to say it straight in your face (they also don't because they're wrong, they weren't eating yet). This happens to me on such regular basis, I'm done.

Pussies, all freaking pussies. They're not complaining about the smell, they're just complaining because threy're sheep.

(i still hear her complaining, also she has like a njet-dog. A dog that is njet a dog, size of a cat with even a bigger mouth than the owner).

That fucking untrained beast is freaking barking the shit outta here, like that's considerate. Train your dog or leave it home. Probably also trained with passive aggressiveness.

The Dutch, famous about being direct - it's over. All pussies now.

Realization today:
-I have serious traumas from my childhood after:
working on animal agriculture and industrial farms
-Living in a shit hole country during bombardment and war
-Couldn't get any job with a degree and was forced to leave with 300€ in my pocket to stay alive

I'm glad that all of this is over for more than 10+ years but I feel it caused a serious damage in my mental health.

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.

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.