Horror Story Time:

Acouple thousand years ago, before the great plage and the rise of the machines I met the founders of a startup , they visited silico valey, one of them worked in san francisco, but they were struggling, So they fired the senior engineer who built their system, and decided to contract out their development.

Their system relied heavily on Location data, it was very central for their business and they used Google APIs, so a few months after they let go of the dude, google starts billing them. Founders did not want to pay so they contracted out a junior dev to fix the issue... And he fixed it.

On that same weekend they attended a big convention, invested a good chunk of money there, registration numbers skyrocketed, huge success. Come monday morning they call me on Skype.

There was no location data in the new accounts, zero, zilch, nada. The "fix" the freelancer did was disabling Google integration altogether, They never tested the stuff properly, just accepted the changes and went with it.

I don't know if they went under because of this, or if this was just the a part of the issue. But sure enought the company lasted less then a Year after that.

If everyone ranting here had access to DevRants source code and could comment and vote on changes, would you it become better or worse?

Story Time:

In the late 90s , early 2000, I remember we had our first landline (phones where a luxury on our part of the world) , with that our first 56k internet connection.

I remember vividly waiting for 14:00 (02PM) so I could connect to the internet paying only a single "pulse".

Back in my tiny remote rural village in brazil, most houses where build by brick layers people hired directly and I lots of owners worked with them to speed up the process, run plumbling and
eletricity, paint and do the floors etc, mylate father included.

Being quite handy, he also did all the wiring for the landline and the for modem.

While he was handy, he was by no means an electrician, so one bizarro side effect for the amateur wiring was that whenever someone turned on the Shower, the internet connection would go down.

And for some bizarre reason, it was only the internet connection, while the shower was turned on, the phone would work fine... some years later broadband internet got widespread and it was unnaffected by the shower.

What made you get into Programming?

GLM4.5 is actually pretty good for Mobile/Web development, pleasantly surprized with it.

What really is Vibecoding? Like where do we draw the line?

My general take is: vibe code is when someone without any knowledge produces code with AI without looking at the code.

But I have done that myself with small things, landing pages, throw away programs.

Can you be a vibe coder in one language and not in another language?

What if I know what the code does, but I'm not fluent on its syntax?

Let's say I write a C program myself, and ask AI to rebuild it in Go, will I be a C Coder, but a Go VibeCoder?

Latelly I'm feeling the urge to write about stuff, coding stuff, what are other places like dev.to and devrant that people enjoy browsing?

You know how you can tell you are talking to Claude?

No matter what you say : "You are absolutelly right!"

I was on WarpCli Live on youtube and they gave out a few discount coupons: 1DOLLARGPT5 and 5DOLLARGPT5

PS: I'm not affiliated with them, also don't couldn't find anything about this type of post on the rules, but since it can be beneficial to some ppl , I'll risk it

Claude code: "Tip: start with small features or bug fixes"

Me: "Pretty please, rewrite this PHP4 SOAP 0.5 Sybase connected and it's 4 tier CGI service in the coolest and lastest Haskell powered GraphQL backend, kthxby"

day #13 of being married to ClaudeCode, we are officially on an OpenMarriage, I loved using OpenCode with Kimi K2, and Warp is actually Good

I have nobody to share this so I will inflict myself on you guys.

I genuinelly laughted out loud from reading the Hot Potato Licence

https://github.com/ErikMcClure/...

#11 of becoming an Anthropic FanGirl (UwU),

I've been wanting to try beekeeper studio for a while, but most of my DBs are in DBeaver, and have been for a while.

So pitted gemini-cli against claude-code, and prompted them identical prompts "Please, Install beekeeper studio".

B+ for effort goes to gemini-cli, it took a while but found an AppImage, which it could not download, took about 5 minutes trying, might be something related to persmissions.

Claude just found a flatpak out of the gate and installed, by the 5th minute I already asked it to migrate the connections and check if the tunnels where configured

Day #7, of turning into a Simp for Claude Code, yesterday it surprized me again.

I'm developing a Python-Qt6 GUI to help me run about 100 small scripts I generated and use sparecely...I know squat about Qt6 and the only python I ever did was FastAPI code.

So it generated the app, and I creeped as many features I could think on it, one of those was auto dark-mode setting (so I can feel like a grown up hacker)... of course it broke the UI.

The interesting part comes next: as I struggled trying to solve it myself, I asked it to create a test and try to solve the UI issue.

So it creates a Test Window, shows me and instructs me on how to test it, asking for my input, and solves the f UI issue.

Then it destroys the test code Just to show me who's the boss.

Log#3, Day 13, I'm starting to create a connection with claude code, I see it struggling with the same shitty code I wrote, I see his remarks on the difficulty debuging the IOS, he is one of us.

I might be losing my mind

the worst part about claude code is that is shows how bad a dev I really am

It's weird that everyone keeps telling us AI will make programmers obsolete, and developers are the people who mostly use the stuff

alias cat='echo -e " /_/\ \n( o.o )\n > ^ <"'

here I fixed the cat command

Is Copilot Rejecting me?

What are some of you favorite tools from your toolset? be it software, hardware, some plugin or even some hack you use often

Why are CSS animations so funny? I always have the best laughts when some page or element spin uncontrollably for no reason

Please, for the love of god, Stop creating markup languages, we have enought

git pyll
git pill
gut pull

I'm estimating the cost for a data migration from CA Clipper based system.

I've got to meet the original developer: the most energetic 79 yo man I've ever met - I honestly wish he was my grandfather

Bootstrap philosophy seems to be turning every CSS property into a HTML class

My biggest fear about publishing open source code is people looking at it and having the same reaction a have when I get back at my old code.

It's been a month since I commented the password check for the login page on production... no one has complained...

What was your lastest "fuck I'm awesome" moment?

Lately I'm finding issues on git more helpful than StackOverflow.

I know those are different beasts, but for the harder/specific questions I'm finding more resources on the repos than on SO.