In my family there are a lot of carpenters who build their own houses. I wonder what it’s like for them since building a house is also a project with a long loop and I could see that closing silently as well with all the “work you actually wanted to do but had to leave undone”. Those couple of licks of paint, that slightly-uneven flooring you made. I wonder.

Well that is actually about the long term. If the labour of an international software company is like that, which depends on management is uo to debate. When you follow the discourse on this newsboard, it seems more like the craftsmen building software often struggle with the manifestation in their domain of the fact, that the way corporations are managed is often not in regard to long term goals but to shortcircuits in the service or quick profits incentiviced by the disfunctionalities of current late stage capitalism. (Not being allowed or unable to build the quality software they would like to build; instead having to ship fast building tech dept etc.)

I went through a similar journey. That and having read all the other experienced engineers’ anecdotes I think the current consensus is that it can boost productivity and does so for a lot of people but that vibe coding still remains unviable in a lot of situations.

I agree with you sentiment although I disagree with the sentence

> coding the old way is good for you. i'm not convinced it's what gets you noticed.

You won’t go completely unnoticed if you’re good at your job but you can only be noticed from your deliverables, which is a slow process. You can buff up your presence by talking about it a lot, yes, but you won’t get 0 attention for hard work.

I read this and think to myself “what does one need so much code for?”.

How strange. We have that joke too in our office for Azure pipelines. Do they use the same agents perhaps?

Someone remind me why this tech called AI deserves attention of this magnitude again.

Really dumb question: What does the EU actually do?

I’ve read a lot about them and it’s basically always the same as reading information about it here: people saying the EU brings a lot of benefits and another person in reply of that comment saying it’s actually a non-EU treaty/document that’s to thank for that.

On the other hand the EU seems like it costs the country a lot of money to be in since the country has to do their part in supporting failing economies that are also part of the EU.

There is another Minecraft-like called Vintage Story, which I like a lot. I love the effort that the Minetest team is making but the game's development doesn't seem to be going anywhere as of right now due to a lack of direction. I feel being a game that is fully open source is not doing any favors.

I don't know if it's possible under license but it might be able to pick up some steam if a large, for-profit mod came along.

What problem does this product solve? The problem of not living fast enough? I think, in that case I'd rather have a shoe that forcefully makes me walk slower...