I’ve been out of tech work for near as long as I have career experience.

Each day feels another nail in the coffin of those 6 years of education.

I swear I’m not flaming, but what did you think TOP said?

Read the images top-to-bottom, left-to-right.

They used a shortcut to call the LLM to fix an error. The final “fix” was for the model to add a comment after the error saying “this is the error”. It’s about at the level of a real developer leaving a comment to themself saying “FIXME [later]”, instead of just fixing it.

“I only want your biggest, burliest neutrinos!”

I can’t tell if the joke is that now is just back then, but again.

This should be taken as evidence they’ve been training off the entire internet.

Fourth panel should just be him dead. I’d have already pulled my hand out

Sure, maybe in the same way that the Ford Model T-500 is a solution to the problem of automobiles.

Pornhub is a car from the 201Xs. And most other media players are varyingly from 1960 and 2025, i.e. out-of-date and over-engineered.

It’s going to be unthinkable. There were memes about managing legacy code but that was from people that at least knew what ‘objects’ and ‘functions’ were. This…this will be horrendous.

I mean, if the base game folder is .8 Gb, then aren’t their 3 mods the 1 Gig culprit? That’s a moddev issues and not many are concerned about optimizations.

Edit: I did misread the bit about the original game size.

Probably a little more up its own ass

This is a great advertisment for what real developers do. You shouldn’t just crank out the first idea that works. You should be doing something that is smarter and sensible.

You shouldn’t be allowed to do things if you’re this fuckin stupid. What does this even mean? How the fuck does Soviet Russia impact your decision to buy groceries?

You want to have a non-final product write the training for the next level of bot? Sure, makes sense if you’re stupid. Why did all these companies waste time stealing when they could just have one bot make data for the next bot to train on? Infinite data!

How is that weird? You can be fine with suboptimal stuff, and recognize it’s suboptimal. Some people like their relatives and wished they could talk together more readily. Letters were just the fastest (while economical) method of doing that for a while.

Beep?

Finally! We’re getting some of the cool bits of dystopia. Where can I catch the robo-boxing vod?

How would you get a surprise in the mouth when you’re stuck headfirst in the washer?

The rocks ain’t magic, dingus. The rocks are just a cipherstone to let us teach lightning how to count to 2 and do addition.

Rubes diminishing the achievements of hardworking artificiers.

No, we can harness this power. I can! I… I just need a little time to learn. A compassionate, yet firm, hand to wield the Vance. A scalpel to excise the rot… yes, I have the vision, the will. The fortitude to bear the weight of this responsibility upon my shoulders! If not me, then who? If not now, then when?! No mere Atlas am I, crushed beneath the world’s weight.

With the power of the Vance, I shall bear the world…forward.