I also wonder if people complaining about Jira are still on Jira Server. Jira Cloud is a much nicer experience. Certainly not perfect, but I've yet to see an actual viable alternative (once worked someplace that tried to move all project management to Gitlab... 🤮).

It's not replacing anyone. It's just an excuse for the usual capitalistic bullshit that they would be doing anyway.

Just gonna share this here anyway since I fell for it originally:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jd-vance-couch-cushions/

Oh, if you worked at a company that uses them (which is a lot of companies), you'd definitely be familiar with them as they hog up a ton of fucking CPU/disk. I basically had an entire CPU core dedicated to running their bullshit.

Thank God someone else said it. I was constantly in an existential battle with IT at my last job when they were constantly forcing updates, many of which did actually break systems we rely on because Apple loves introducing breaking changes in OS updates (like completely fucking up how dynamic libraries work).

Updates should be vetted. It's a pain in the ass to do because companies never provide an easy way to rollback, but this really should be standard practice.

I'm not, really. They're one of our largest operating expenses and we're trying to work on reducing our log output to reduce the cost.

For what they do I'm not aware of any players in the space that come anywhere close, though.

sigh

I'm so tired of repeating this ad nauseum. No, it's not going to take your job. It's hype train bullshit full of grifters. There is no intelligence or understanding, nor have we come anywhere close to achieving that. That is still entirely within the realm of science fiction.

https://www.shellcheck.net/ is probably one of the most well-known.

https://simplex.chat/ is written entirely in Haskell.

https://pandoc.org/ is another big one.

https://serokell.io/blog/best-haskell-open-source-projects has a (non-exhaustive) list of a bunch more.

Yes, but speed limits change. There's no way of reliably knowing what the current speed limit is without wireless communication.

I am an actual (senior) software engineer, with a background in ML to boot.

I would start to worry if we were anywhere close to even dreaming of how AGI might actually work, but we're not. It's purely in the realm of science fiction. Until you meet the bar of AGI, there's absolutely no risk of software engineering jobs being replaced.

Go or Chess are games with a fixed and simple ruleset and are very suited to what computers are really good at. Software engineering is the art of making the ambiguous and ill-defined into something entirely unambiguous and precisely defined, and that is something we are so far from achieving in computers it's not even funny. ML is ultimately just applied statistics. It's not magic, and it's far from anything we would consider "intelligence".

I do think we need legislation targeting ML, but not because of "omg our jobs". Rather we need legislation to combat huge tech companies vacuuming any and all data on the general public and using that data to manipulate and control the public.

Also, LOL at "how much code development is straight up redundant". If you think development amounts to just writing a bunch of boilerplate as though we were some kind of assembly line putting together the same thing over and over again, you're sorely mistaken.

I'm in the US with an Android and have never actually encountered this, only heard about kids bitching about it. Adults definitely don't give a shit. It's very childish behavior.

Another super cool thing about it is that it's written entirely in Haskell!