It was great!

The Expanse and For All Mankind. It already feels a bit like FAM is a prequel anyway.

If only the operating system wasn’t pure garbage. MacOS has never been particularly great, but lately I feel like they let the AI do too much coding work, with so many small glitches piling up with every update.

• The menu bar only flies down when my mouse pointer is one pixel below the upper edge of the screen instead of right on it
• The volume icon jumps up and down in the OSD when I change the global volume
• I have to precisely target either a folder icon or its accompanying text in the Finder app. They both belong together, but nothing happens when I click on the space between them.
• I can tile some programs half&half on my screen, but not all of them.
• I have to confirm using the same USB dongle every time I boot up the device without getting an option to remember my choice.
• Every time I want to install an unsigned app I have to try opening it, acknowledge the refusal message and then go deep into the system settings to force opening it up anyway. Giving me a “Run this app anyway” option like everyone else seems to be too hard.
• Every time I want to install a free app from the AppStore, I have to put in my iCloud password. Even if I install them right after each other. They surely could remember my choice for a minute and not bother asking me ten times in a row.

Apple fans often claim their OS is perfect and so much more userfriendly than the competition, but it’s actually getting more and more outdated and annoying to use with each release. Multimonitor support is still garbage, the Finder feels like it hasn’t had any meaningful changes for over a decade (to the point where even Windows Explorer outshines it now) and Liquid Glass really showed the world that they’re out of ideas. MacOS is just rotten software at this point.

I also don’t get why the Macbook Neo is hyped up so much. It’s a device that throttles under load, because the CPU doesn’t have a heatsink (which surely can’t be good for longevity) - and 8GB of RAM will make it obsolete really fast.

My employer is also very skeptical about AI. No one forces me to use it, they just trust me to build up my projects in a maintainable way. It really feels like I’m on a ship carefully navigating through a storm right now. I’ve had a lot of jobs in my lifetime, and this company finally feels like one that might keep me forever.

I once shat my pants at work after drinking too much coffee and left a little stain on the chair. After my shift I swapped the chair with one from a morbidly obese coworker, who was absent that day.

Either everybody knew or nobody knew.

PHP pays my bills, so I’ll continue using it. Sometimes I even have fun while doing so. There are more important things to get angry about.

Same movie for me as well! Two people got bored halfway in and didn’t stop talking until the end. It baffles me why. They must’ve known what they were getting into after watching the first Dune movie, which is also pretty lengthy and doesn’t contain nonstop action.

I only used the “Shut the fuck up” call during a showing of the last Paddington movie. There were two girls who used their outside voice and it angered me quite a lot. The room was packed and no one else told them to shut their mouth. Thanks for not backing me up to the rest of the society, I guess… 😑

People who talk during a movie or fiddle with their fucking smartwatches or phones constantly can all go to extra hell.

Not surprising JetBrains is doing this, they use your code on their non-commercial products to train their own AI tools which already pissed off users six months ago. AI first, users second.

The quality of PhpStorm goes down the drain as well, since the last three updates I cannot scroll without the UI locking up periodically anymore. 🫠 Maybe it’s time for me to go back to kate.

I got Virtual Home Theater on Steam to watch 3D movies, it’ s a great experience.

Half-Life: Alyx and the Psychonauts VR game are also great. Pro Tip: The HP Reverb G2 is really cheap and it’s got 2160p per eye. It’s not officially supported anymore since Microsoft canceled their VR platform, but Oasis drivers make them work better than ever.

Skyrim.

“Experiencing interruptions? Find out why” - Naah I’m fine dude, just take your time.

I use the TVTime app. It’s a bit shit (mainly the atrocious loading times), but it works.

That Wizard of Oz movie is really weird. They put the original movie into a tiny area and generated a whole load of surroundings with AI.

The original framing and artistic intent get totally lost, it’s a novel idea but a shit product as a movie. “Be Kind Rewind” watched it live and made a lengthy review about that slopfest on YouTube.

Singapore put one of the first full AI movies into cinemas last year: “Madam Zheng”. It is absolute garbage, got a 1.6/10 on IMDB and barely anyone watched it. I didn’t find any news articles about it at the time, but the YouTuber Pinely made a video about it with some details and horrible shots.

Dev:

Quite honestly, if that’s the level of bugs we’re dealing with due to our use of AI tools, that’s a pretty good deal.

Response:

Out of the 4 commits I’ve looked at, I found 2 bugs (potentially). That doesn’t worry you? Do half of your commits normally have difficult to spot bugs?

At least the comedic value of this project is pretty high.

I thought we would finally have haptic touchscreens in our devices. There were some experiments in the past, but it never happened outside of niche industry applications.

Makes me a little bit sad, because being able to feel elements is really useful - I can type blind on my Titan 2 phone (which has a real keyboard) and in cars, it would really improve safety.

But I’ll miss reactions like these:

Ahhhhhhhh look at me I’ve lost the ability to read code!!!

Pretending that skill atrophy isn’t a real issue doesn’t make it go away. The more a developer outsources his brain to an LLM, the more skills they lose over time. I experienced it first hand, because I wasn’t always so strictly against “AI” and used it extensively for many months. But I noticed that I wasn’t able to solve pretty simple coding tasks after a while anymore, tasks which were second nature to me before. Anyone who mindlessly boosts AI without even taking this into consideration, isn’t a good developer.

I still code better than most of my juniors.

This statement is a nothingburger. You can’t hype yourself up to make yourself more legitimate, anyone can just claim things on the internet. In order to assess if you are truly a good coder, another senior who doesn’t use AI would have to look over your code. The results might surprise you.

I’ll leave it at that, you completely jumped on the hypetrain, you aren’t even interested in a real discussion and my time is too valuable to spend it on such trivialities. I just feel sorry for the juniors working under your management and I hope you’ll not be out of a job when OpenAI, Anthropic and all of the other big “AI” companies eventually go down the drain.

So you’re saying I will get more promotions by deskilling myself? Yeah, sure, that makes sense…

You people are going to get so left behind

Been hearing that for two years, mate.