thebardingreen
@thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz
- Technology Consultant.
- Software Developer.
- Musician.
- Burner.
- Game Master.
- Non-theistic Pagan.
- Cishet White Male Feminist.
- Father.
- Fountain Maker.
- Aquarium Builder.
- Hamster Daddy.
- Resident of Colorado.
- Anti-Capitalist.
- Hackerspace Regular.
- Traveler of the American West.
- Comment on Why front-end development will persist 4 days ago:
I’m working with a team where my business partner and I are external consultants, but they also have internal developers (who are mostly very junior and need hand holding with things like using git).
Anyway, the CEO (without talking to us first) hired a pure vibe coder with no software engineering experience to build the user interface. Super nice guy, super easy to work worth, super eager to learn but OH MY GOD THIS CODE.
A lot of my work is / has been in cybersecurity (mostly for the space industry / NASA adjacent projects, but also less recently for start ups and fortune 500 companies). This app is the worst I’ve ever seen. The AI writes things SO weirdly. 30k lines of typescript to do something we could have done in 6k. Reams of dead code. Procedural code to do repeatable tasks instead of functions / classes (10 different ways of doing the same thing). API keys / data base credentials committed to git. API Keys stored in .env but then ALSO just hardcoded into the actual API calls. auditability
AND no. At the end of the day, it wasn’t cheaper or fast than it would have been to hire us to do it right. And the tech debt now accumulated to secure / maintain this thing? Security is a long term requirement, we’re bringing a buddy of mine in to pentest this thing next week, I expect him to find like 10-12 critical vulns. Wow.
tl;dr: If a project requires security, stability, auditability, or the need to quickly understand how something works / why something happens, DON’T vibe code it. You won’t save money OR time in the long run. If you’re project DOESN’T need any of those things (and never will), then by all means I guess, knock yourself out.
- Comment on Internet regulation is entering its hall pass era 1 week ago:
Driving wider adoption of alternative social media and privacy tools.
Although I expect them to try to come for us and our tools at some point.
- Comment on What's the story in your field? Here's mine 1 week ago:
TBH, 98% security problems in the Python ecosystem boil down to mission critical projects using old versions of libraries or straight up unmaintained libraries, where the library in question is 100+ megabytes of who knows what, but the project only imports one function, the utility of which the devs could have recreated themselves in 15 minutes without needing to use the library, especially lately when everyone just imports what the AI tells them to import.
- Comment on What's the story in your field? Here's mine 1 week ago:
Image This is me.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Saved me a click.
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 1 week ago:
Darth Tyrannosaurus.
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 1 week ago:
Is there actually any biologic mechanism to generat and conduct electricity at a high enough voltage and current that it can ionize air over a distance as large as that (looks like at least 1/2m) without damaging the actual animal doing it?
Midichlorians. The ability to cause an extinction level event is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 2 weeks ago:
We tried to build systems that perform a kind of basic, rudimentary, extremely power intensive and inefficient mimicry of how (we think maybe) brain cells work.
Then that system lies to us, makes epic bumbling mistakes, expresses itself with extreme, overconfidence, and constantly creatively misinterprets simple instructions.
Hmmm… Actually, maybe we’re doing a pretty good job…
- Comment on Jupiter 3 weeks ago:
And I went to Venus, to get more…
- Comment on Pick up artist 101 5 weeks ago:
Too many ads lying to me about hot single chromosomes seeking casual syngamy in my area.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS 5 weeks ago:
Tekeli-li
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Showrunners Talk Season 3 Premiere And “Retconning” The Gorn 5 weeks ago:
I agree with basically everything you said, although I’ve found more things than just the Gorn in SNW to be cranky about. While TNG era never TRIED to get science and engineering right… they tried WAY harder than SNW, which is saying something and NOT a good something. It’s like TNG’s attitude was “We know we’re goofy, but we DO have techno bable consultants, and we try to link some of what we’re doing to real physics and engineering” while SNW is like “We don’t even care, rule of cool in a hollywood hipstery writer way, we don’t really know what we’re talking about, nor do we care.” Major pet peeve of mine.
Also, I love Carol Kane as an actress, but she’s just Lillian in space, and honestly, I really didn’t ever need that.
Certainly, some of my joy in the show also just has to do with it just being better than Discovery (for which I’m like…oh thank god).
Lower Decks was a better show.
- Comment on Dear Kevin 5 weeks ago:
Having worked with a bunch of Boomer and older Gen X EEs, it is a fucking misogynistic boys club of white ass old men with undiagnosed autism. I have never heard so many racist and sexist jokes in the workplace.
So this surprises me not at all (in fact, I think I’ve heard it before, but as “Black Boys * * *”).
- Comment on Ach aye, Scottish words for plants 1 month ago:
I always thought it was a “Dandy Lion,” like a fancy Victorian gentleman lion.
Also
“Uhuhuh… you thaid blow balls.”
“Yeah! Heheh! Yeah!”
- Comment on You yiffing people are everywhere, I stg. 1 month ago:
Not futa enough.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek’ series beams into Hamilton 2 months ago:
Yay, a time travel episode.
Also, thespec.com has some very obnoxious javascript going on.
- Comment on Sea snail teeth top Kevlar, titanium as world’s strongest material 2 months ago:
Know people that worked with him, can confirm.
“Move fast and break things” Startup mindset is dangerous when taking your customers end up potentially hostile environments. If only Michael Crichton had warned us about that decades ago.
- Comment on he big, he attac 2 months ago:
I knew that.
They also thrive on incest, and love to breed with their own parents and siblings.
Bedbugs are already just super gross, but the more you learn about their biology the more gross they become.
- Comment on Robert Picardo On How The Doctor Is “Deeper” In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ 3 months ago:
And honestly, my sourness with the 32nd century is sourness with Disco. It remains the only Trek series I haven’t seen every single episode of.
So I’ll give Academy a chance.
- Comment on Covergent Evolution 3 months ago:
That’s what you get for going Warp 10.
- Comment on Robert Picardo On How The Doctor Is “Deeper” In ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ 3 months ago:
I’ll watch it, but I’m already skeptical because it’s set in the 32nd century. That’s like setting Star Wars stuff in the Sequels Era (don’t do it).
- Comment on Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media 3 months ago:
Enshitification commencing in 10… 9…
- Comment on broscience go brrrrrrrrr 3 months ago:
Life… Uh…
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 3 months ago:
Weird mathematical fact about that,
That works out to almost exactly every person on Earth killing exactly one animal every day.
- Comment on LEAVE SQUIDNEY ALONE 3 months ago:
Iä! Hail to the Star Spawn!
Iä! Hail to the children of the slumbering great one!
- Comment on that'll teach him 3 months ago:
I hear you can pay for this kind of thing in Thailand.
- Comment on The Photodegradation Ball 3 months ago:
Trump claiming this was paid for with Biden era grants in 3… 2…
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- Comment on Mother 3 months ago:
TIL how to catch a Pikachu.
- Comment on Caption this. 4 months ago:
See kids? Monsters not bad! Monsters just… different! And different not bad!
