"huh. I wonder how this works? I'll check with the original dev"

Checks git blame

"Well fuck..."

Vibe coders not understanding their code because they didn’t write it.

Me not understanding my code because I wrote it a month ago.

...we are not the same :P

My god, had someone send in a merge request with utter garbage, with Claude describing some nonsensical "root cause" as to why a function didn't work. Claude made two changes:

• If the current scheme failed, use an entirely different scheme it claimed the software supports that does not work and was never documented as a way to work.
• If that scheme fails, swallow the error and don't report the problem, leaving the problem silently in place but out of the user's view at least for a short while. This is actually the change that 'fixed' the problem.

So I needed to know the debug data for what really went wrong, but the submitter got all pissy and said Claude already sorted it out and why can't I just accept their slop merge request as-is, refusing to believe that all it did was catch and silently drop any and all errors associated with the code instead of fixing it. Wouldn't run the procedure I stated would show them they had messed up data as a result of their 'fix'.

Just complete the AI slop trough and copy and paste the ticket back into Claude to fix and open an MR and then have Claude review it and merge and then when there is a bug repeat the process.

I honestly don't know what people are thinking, both employees and employers when people start copy pasting LLM shit. Why do I need you if all you are is a glorified macro? I strongly suspect the human is there to be the fall guy when the LLM invariably does something really stupid.

Work slop! Just love people using LLMs to hand the heavy lifting over to me.

The fabled meat proxies.

Honestly, this isn't even an AI issue, people have been doing that long before AI became a thing

Getting a ticket "I need you to change blah" and the request is either nonsense or "fixes" something unrelated to what the user is actually experiencing, but they're so sure they know

This weirdly is way worse when you support technical teams, it makes it pretty clear how much Dunning Kruger is going around in IT... But yeah, AI is making it so much worse

since quitting caffeine

Sorry, can you explain this part?

I don't understand how you can quit breathing caffeine

They exist, but I'd like to pretend they don't.

I put together a new modpack for minecraft this year and from that i can verify that this comment definitely checks out.

I was only ever observed to have autism, but I highly suspect that I'm audhd. What kind of hell is this where caffeine can help my ADHD focus but harms my autistic focus

Back when I was studying, I had a final exam on my last year (so basically one of the most important exams in my career) that was about PHP. It was 3h, and we had to complete a theory part and then code a bunch of stuff.

I attended that exam while completely drunk. So much so that I don't remember anything about it. Somehow I didn't get kicked out.

I genuinely expected to fail it, and instead I got my best grade up to that point, an 8/10.

ADHD is wildly common in the field. Everyone in my infosec department has it, which is amazing because we all get the struggle.