So, talking about people on Reddit not having humor; i got banned by my bank (bunq) forever. I complained about my always unasked for planted tree after every expensive I do of x euro's. I've planted 33 or something. So, at least I posted that I want to have a picture of my tree. Many others wanted pictures of their trees too and some actually had whole woods of trees actually :P

So, nobody got a picture of their tree and I got banned.

But now I think about it, if I alone are already responsible for 33 trees and some people own complete woods appearantly. Is it actually possible that they're really planting all those trees? They're a bank, they're massive, it must be the biggest tree planting operation ever. Gonna research this.

SInce this app has no selection regarding rant type, let's see what it will become.

LinkedIn:

you must have a portefolio to show your skill

Me:

maybe that's true for junior but I don't have a strong portefolio because i have a job

LinkedIn:

I do my portefolio after my working hour. It's about dedication and passion

Me:

When you're dedicated every hour is working hour. If you have time for side projects you're a bad employee.

Outlinkedined

I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem - especially in corporate - but have you ever had one or more colleagues actively want to sabotage your career progress and blatantly undermine you by constantly writing peer reviews about you in an unnecessarily negative and aggressive way while they themselves advance and steal your progress?

I have been through such toxicity. I've had colleagues do this - colleagues who didn't like me as a person, all conspiring against me (no joke - I saw it at the water cooler talk). I sure hope this doesn't happen too often to people.

God i hate this country. Every job requires dutch and french (who tf speaks both), and when they don't they want driving license for no reason. I can't do psychology because I don't have the right master, I can't even get a bullshit job to pay for food because they all require some bullshit gouvernement program so that the employer can not pay taxes. I have no right to unemployment, and CPAS are gonna be overflooded.

I hate right wingers I swear they're ruining the fucking world with their bellybuttonism

Code tells a story.

It is usually not especially interesting. It is not captivating. But it is a story.

The story often goes like this: Instead of using the class directly, an interface was used. Someone expects this implementation to change a lot. Or they want to break the logic of the code apart. Speed up compilation times. Maybe they plan on having multiple different implementations.

That's, well... no, it is not exciting. But sometimes you look at it and wonder why. And you muse to yourself, what could be the reason for this curious choice. Is the whole project written like that? Maybe two developer developed the feature together and they agreed at the very beginning to write the interface in order to be able to cleanly work in parallel. I did this with a colleague. We worked on a common feature. We decided to write an interface first, then we worked separately and in parallel on the two sides of the interface. In the end we left it in and we were asked why we decided to use an interface.

Code tells a story. But so very often now, the story I hear when I ask why is "copilot did it." Fuck you. And fuck your "hey, copilot says you could do something better" in merge reviews.

I don't care if you want to use AI. I don't think it is good. You dull your skills. But hey, I don't really care about it. I don't care if you decide to use a plastic fork to remove your left eye. I mean, I would have recommended a sharper instrument, but fuck, if you want to mutilate yourself. Go for it. But when git blame tells me it was you who wrote the code, then don't fucking excuse any decision with "copilot did it." And when copilot tells you there is an improvement in my merge request, you don't need to tell me that it came from copilot. That is no authority. If you think copilot is right, you argue for it, and you give me arguments and reasons. But if you don't even understand yourself why it is supposedly better, just fuck off.

Got refused from another job.

The reason was that even do my test had "some features" (no more nor less than the ones they asked for), I didn't bring up some stuff that they like to hear or I didn't show the right kind of enthousiasm.

Aka it's based on vibe man there was a mismatch on the astroplane or something

The more I go the more hate is consuming me. I can take criticism, not arbitrary decision

Idc I'm gonna buy 30 chocolates bar and bring it to the midwives of my local hospital for they're on strike and they're gonna picket all night

Got refused for a job again for zero good reason. Apparently they're "scared" because I was a freelancer instead of an employee and they want some submissive dicksucking twat so they can pay them minimum wage.

I swear to god moving back to this retarded country was the worst move of my life. Bureaucratic, corrupted, full of white wingers, pedos, mafiosos and racists cunts.

This is europe

"Our site works better in the app," they claim. But I can't magnify text in their app, can't zoom into images and can't select and copy text?

Your site only works better in the app, because you make your developers restrict the web app on purpose to deceive and effectively force your users to use a native app for no other reason than to collect more data and push unsolicited spam notifications into their face more easily.

I've vented to a few friends about the bad interviews I've had. They've been bad mostly because I'm not amazing at Leetcode style questions and the pressure of an interview. I saw some of these friends last night and they all said the same thing:

"You have to have the 'f*** you, if you're going to ask me these type of questions I don't want to work for you anyways' mentality."

I haven't even thought of it that way, but I think that's because in the Bay Area that's just the name of the game. Every random company and their mom is asking you these brain twisters, and to cut out all companies that do it would mean cutting out like 95% of the market.

I have been pretty lucky that the last few companies I have worked at have been very chill / light on the Leetcode style questions, but I don't think I'll get that lucky again.

Anyways, I wish I could just not care about a bad interview and just do the whole "yeah f you guys" mentality, but that's just not who I am. I wish I could turn that on, but I know I do care about some of these companies and want it to work out.

update: oh boy, spent the whole day in the hospital - bronchopathy. They did some exams and you know that propylene glycol thingy vape liquids use to produce all that vapor? It seems that while that shit's safe to eat, your lungs can't digest it, obviously. Therefore I am now stuck puking that shit out the next couple of weeks. Don't touch ANY sort of vape, friends

GUYS THE WOKE DID IT AGAIN

https://phoronix.com/news/...

I don't even know if it's worth reviewing dynamic programming problems on Leetcode.

If a company gave me this problem with the 10 years of experience I have, what are they even trying to gauge from me?

I told my landlord that his rent is so high that I can't eat every day. I think he actually believed me. Fingers crossed. Last time he raised with 50 euros and I'm without warm water now for almost two weeks. That's not very common in the Netherlands. He came a few times and delivered half work. You would expect a few times half work would mean a completed job.

This rant is IT related bevause it limits me contributing to open source.

After coming back from vacation, seeing that the project manager has used AI to try and do some of my tasks, completely failing and running performance and code quality/readability into the ground I must confess that I am strongly in favour of completely banning AI for non-tech people

First time filing for unemployment after the layoff. I didn't even know it was something I was eligible, so I'm lucky I spoke to my friend the other day.

Just came back from my first day at cloudflare. I've already removed quite a bit of dead code.

Just had a second interview for a job in southern france.

At least i wont freeze to death omg

you cold apply to a job and get ghosted

i cold apply and get two rejection emails

we are not the same

How nice it is to work when almost no notifs and everybody is off. No slack distractions.

When you heard so much about A.I. that you think 'code assist' in Eclipse means A.I., when it really just means local docs contextual pop-up. lol

The hoops you have to go through to summarize a document even using LLMs with 100s of billions of parameters is insane. Even when you get something that "works" with RAG, all you are really getting is a summary of the distilled version of the document, not a pure summary.

I've got a script that breaks down documents into manageable chunks with an overlap so the meaning isn't lost between paragraphs, and it works decently enough, especially when you add terms and definitions to the system prompt for things it has trouble with. But the context window is still a problem so you have to discard older entries, which means you can't correct previous items based on new entries.

Using vision models to OCR the image instead of reading in a text document seems to be working a bit better, but it relies on the image being the right size and you can't load in too many at a time.

The Orwellian irony is that A.I. agents can probably help me better at finding a job than most recruiters can. lol

This November shall be... Noirvember, i.e. watching Film Noir. Nyah, see? H'what are you saying, see?

So November is epilepsy awareness month.

People literally shaking with excitement about this.

Ain't nothing like compiler development to make you want to jump of a bridge

I went in with my childish naivety. How wrong I was... lmao

(Double rant day)

So I had a little problem and I thought, why not test a new AI tool on it.
The problem: git-rebase, but copy tags. Example: if you apply a commit with the tag G2, create a tag called G2' in the new commit.
The tool: Perplexity. I had heard good things about it.

TL;DR: Had to do it myself.

1st it told me to do it by hand.
"What about --exec?"
Oh yeah, call a bash script to do it.
"What would the script look like...?"
Ooh, like this, look.
"Ok, I see. Can we just put it all in the command? The script can be simplified, only one tag per commit that has any, and forget the echo statements."
Yeah definitely, here you are.
"It's still complex, the script can be simplified."
Yes, I can remove some parts. Now.

Great, so now I had a single command, that would do what I wanted, right?
Nope.
- It referenced files that didn't exist.
- It had badly escaped characters in the bash string.
- And after fixing that*, for some reason Git didn't accept it, even if it was well formatted, and the AI never told me that could happen.
* Mind you, fixing that took some time of reading documentation of git commands and options I never used, snooping around what was accessible in Git's internals during a rebase, rewriting the bash lines... like, I didn't even use any part of the AI solution.

Evidently Git's very hard even for AI lol
It's neither artificial nor intelligent, it's trash. 0 stars.
(I know Perplexity is not "an AI", it was most probably using ChatGPT. Can't bother to see how to check.)
Maybe I was using it wrong??

This world can fuck right off.

March of 2025. I dove into a depression as a complication of my bipolar 2. Has less mania and more I want to die episodes. I noticed this as losing all interest in everything in my life. I DIDN'T HEED THE WARNING!!!

This results in me being distracted at work and struggling to learn a new platform. It also doesn't help that my supervisor keeps pulling me off the project to work on other shit. ALL OF WHICH I COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY. They even gave me a 4% raise in March. Apparently it didn't help my depression.

We get to May and my supervisor takes away the programming tool used to program the platform I am working on (embedded processor). I complain and they say I am not getting it back. In my head I should have seen this as a fucking RED FLAG and pushed back.

Then in July the CTO says I need to have my code finished for the new platform in one month. I tell my supervisor I don't think I can (should have spoke up about the programming tool because I CAN'T TEST ANY FUCKING CODE!) He says: "I think you can do it!"

So I am trying to code blindly on a platform I can't test the code. I get to August and report I am testing code on Linux because I have no way to test on the platform. Apparently the CTO doesn't like this. So he starts sending people to walk by my office to "spy" on me because he suspects a character flaw. I don't realize this is happening until after the fact. Apparently I am on my phone too much (which is not typical, but I suspect my depression fucked me here).

I get called to a meeting with HR and my supervisor. They are firing me for performance and violating policy of using my phone outside of break times. This is August 14th. I am compliant and don't make a scene (it won't help). My supervisor is crying and the CTO made him fire me and sign everything.

The CTO also made a statement about how I was never deserving of the job title because I was never creative enough or good enough or some shit. This is the same guy that praised my past solutions for creativity and unique ways of solving the problems. The dude flat out lied and rewrote history. I even found a review from 2022 saying I was good at the role. Also, the dude gave me the damn job title. Up until this point I respected the guy. Now, I have lost all respect for him. It is one thing to fire for cause. It is another to lie about it sell the point.

On the way out the door my supervisor offered to be a reference for me. Several other people I worked with offered the same and couldn't fathom why I got fired. People I worked with for 7 years.

So I get thrown into the shittiest job market in the last 20 years. I can't find anything online or local. My fucking degree is a shit tech degree. So even though I can write decent software nobody wants to consider me because there hundreds of thousands of out of work SWEs on the market. I was already trying to recover from working at a shitty startup after losing a decent job due to a layoff. This was also affected by my un-diagnosed bipolar at the time. I made poor financial decisions because of some of my rare manic phases.

Unemployment from DOL finds that I was not at fault for being fired. They determined the company applied inconsistent policy on cell phone usage. Which is true to an extent. I have seen people take a lunch for 2 hours watching movies. Saw another dude sleep for 2 hours. Snoring and everything. But unemployment has no power other than giving me unemployment. Which isn't enough.

So now I am 3 months into job search and I find out that as much as 60% of the job postings on LinkedIn are fake. So there is a good chance that all of the jobs I applied for are fake.

My wife has a business, but it won't be enough when savings run out in 6 months. Because of the shit market I can't get a fucking job doing anything it seems.

I am tired, and the bullshit keeps piling up. I realize the only way I can survive is to create some kind of business.

I know, my perception of what happened is my perception. But if I was ever a valued employee they would have asked "What is wrong, and how can we help?" Instead I find out the CTO had harbored ill will toward me and NEVER FUCKING TOLD ME! I had asked for feedback in the past about my work and was told it was good work. I asked: "Am I too slow." The CTO said: "Your a little slow, but I don't have to worry about your code." Yet when they fired me they said I was getting complaints from other departments. But guess what? They NEVER FUCKING TOLD ME. This is the most sadistic way I have ever heard of managing people. Hold them to a standard that you never tell them about. I should have been clued into this when they fired the last guy. They never told anyone he was gone. I asked the CTO why they never told anyone. He said something about that is how that works. This is some serious mind fuck shit.

Around half a year ago I had a client... Client that told me I would be responsible for quite big system that needs to be written, that he vibecoded a lot of, and that I am supposed to use as much AI as possible and buy myself claude max plan.

Fine, at that point I needed something, anything, as I didnt had any project.

Long story short, there was 3 huge, huge repos, with tens of tousends of dead code lines. An API that half of endpoints didnt work. I started vibecoding (as requested by client, "becouse this claude AI produces shockingly good quality code" - direct client quote) and getting frustrated by what tf the AI was doing.

I was requested to take as many hours as needed to get the features delivered asap.

I managed to bend the reality to get compiling code that passes some smoke tests of some of the features. Features, that were poorly defined and I had some questions practially all the time (as the file with features was vibed also lmao), and usually anwser was something like "whatever works, mate".

It lasted 1.5 weeks. Every single day I was out of claude limit.

After 1.5 weeks client disappeared for few days, not responding, and after almost a full week I got lengthy message from him that roughly said "you are great developer, but you dont use AI enough so your velocity isnt exactly what I expected. Good luck with next projects".

Ooof. While I know it's probably worst productivity measure out there, but LoC wise, that was solid +30k in that 2 weeks, that I did indeed read through and knew it at least roughly does what it should.

Oh, and he finished the project himself with pure vibecoding, launched it, it failed immidietely as it wasnt technically sound. At least made me smile for half a second.

I will never forget trying to get Opus to follow architecture or do anything reasonably.

I rant about it for simple reason:
for some people the AI thing makes them impossibly delusional what the tool actually can do and what it is good for. Impossibly delusional. Don't be me. Don't deal with delusional clients.

Has anyone noticed ChatGPT glazing getting really bad lately? Every single one of my stupid, bone-headed fucking questions are "insightful" and "important".

FUCK you, you psychopath. Stop manipulating me.