Sure, but I’ve a guy working with me who’s supposed to have ten years xp in the tech we use, and he’s pretty fucking useless.
Meanwhile the young front-end dev who didn’t know any of our tech turns out to learn everything we throw at her after one explanation. Pure tech eval would’ve meant throwing her away after reading her cv.

Telling me your blood type or astrological signs is as useful as telling me your certifications and years of experience, these days.

It’s funny to read the reactions and the people not understanding that programming questions are not enough to judge you. We need people with functioning brains and that usually means problem solving skills. And sometimes the problems are fucking idiotic! Nobody cares about the light switches. We want to see how you think. We want people who don’t give up if they can’t look it up.

You think you’re hot shit because you learnt the latest trendy language? I’ve wasted entire days with people like that because they couldn’t be fucking arsed reading error messages and figuring things out by themselves.

À complete mystery. We probably need more AI.

That’s what happens when your artists are not technically literate. I worked with photographers / videographers for a bit and I had to explain to them that no, you can’t just copy paste your 40Mb photos onto the online gallery, even if yes, the Web page will just resize them. We don’t actually need a full gallery of 600dpi files online thanks.

Feckin muppets.

You ever heard of the fit girl? She does this to every single game she touches and it is amazing to see.

Careful now. Dem’s fighting words in some parts of the Net…

I dream of AI being used to generate cool, theme appropriate NPCs for an indie dev that doesn’t have an army of talented writers at their disposal.
But honestly let’s face it, that’s never what they’ll aim for. It’s all about not paying people, for these assholes. They’ll happily fire their talented writers of they can use AI instead, never once wondering who’s gonna feed the AI in the first place.
And so it is a matter of principle to say no to AI in general, because you know they’ll always pick the worst possible way to use it.

I’ve had EA on ignore for years (whenever they demanded we switch to Origin) and they still showed up on my front page during the last sale !

I write in Notepad++ then copy paste to WSL.

You just helped me so fucking much with this! I’m writing a lecture on exactly this and my own personal experience is alright, but this is even better. Thank you!

Gee I sure hope another fascist demagogue doesn’t get violence coming to him. That would be a tragedy…

The fucking Toreador are a DLC!? The absolute balls on them!

“Am I so out of touch? No, it’s the kids who are wrong.”

The only way to fight this is to show you’re spending more money than those idiots no? Would be fun if Steam and Itch.io made some numbers public to shut down those prudes.

Sounds like the kind of shit one might say in a place where you need the money to feed that child and jobs are fire-at-will. What a fucking nightmare!

It’s a sure sign that you have a shitty work life balance.

That’s a starving Chinese elephant from Yunnan, so… maybe?

There is a reason UX is as respected as a soft science :/

What did you learn from this?