Comments by "muh diversity" (@muhdiversity7409) on "Internet of Bugs" channel.

Meh. Let the cancel pigs come. You are so spot on. In my last firm Agile was basically the religion. They're so focused on the Agile process so that everything " looks " good to the incompetent management, they have Agile high priests what watch everyone's Jira's like hawks (that's all they do) and without consulting the developer make changes to them so that the end of sprint report looks perfect with burn down charts and other nonsense that also look perfect. Every other part of the software engineering process is tossed to the wind. Of course they mass laid off engineers in their future hope that the AI high priests they hired will wave their hands and all the software will be written by magic.
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This is essentially online dating for developers. Remember when it used to be "hot girls in your area?" in the local paper. Now it's hot girls on the internet. Corporation: We should all be able to find the hottest girl on the internet, right? look! there's loads of them!!! The developers keep swiping in frustration and getting no engagement while the corps keep posting for hot girls on the internet.
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@InternetOfBugs lmao. Using the dating paradigm. I commented on this video about how current job hunting is essentially online dating but weirdly worse.
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You've described one of the other circles of hell that complements the comment I made earlier today when this video was first posted.
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@InternetOfBugs Makes me wonder whether OP is a bot.
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I wish I could tell you what I think of recruiters but this equally garbage platform will censor it.
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@InternetOfBugs Haha. I hear you. Isn't it amazing how once you introduce computers and the internet the negative incentives just appear out of the ether. I used to think recruiters were bad, that was 15 years ago, just before I got the job I was laid off from last year. This new strain of recruiter is so so much worse. Some are so bad I'm starting to wonder whether they're actually sentient.
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Software Engineering is not about writing Leet Code. If it was Google wouldn't be canceling so many projects and failing to introduce new innovative products, the same malaise exists in so many other corps. They're all jumping on the AI bandwagon because it's current thing so no one wants to be seen as being left behind. Telling everyone that AI will replace actual engineering is just part of that hype train.
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If everyone is unemployed who exactly is going to be buying your "things". Everything seems to be a race to the bottom these days.
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LeetCode is basically a bullies Hazing ritual. It also projects very clearly the type of working environment a vicitim candidate can expect. I turn down every role that requires me to do this style of initiation before I've spoken to an actual human so that I can figure out whether I even want to do your shitty job.
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Speaking of software with bugs. There is an example piece of code that people use as a starting point for OpenCL applications. Depending on your environment the OpenCL compiler will fail telling you there's gibberish in the input. I've seen many posts about this with no good answers other than "it works for me". Turns out that if you have certain kernel mitigations turned on that scrub memory then you're likely to see the example programs work. Why? Because the original program assumes that the buffer the OpenCL code is written into is zero terminated and there's an off by one bug that ensures the buffer is never properly terminated. Get rid of the developers because I'm sure that AI will totally be able to figure things like that out. People that say the AI will replace software engineers are living in a Utopian fantasy land.
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@InternetOfBugs Absolutely. I figure it out because the application was working. I was experimenting with something and turned off all the kernel mitigation and over a month later I started the app an it would crap out. I started to look at the code more closely and the complaints on SO, which didn't have an answer, and then asked myself what has changed? That gave me a clue that the OpenCl compiler was reading beyond the buffer bounds. I did feel a little proud of myself once I re-wrote the reading code and the change fixed the issue.
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Clean code is why I despise so much Java code. The corporation I worked for had Zealots that don't actually write code recommend "Clean Code" as the solution to why their code bases were garbage. It didn't make the code better, it made it much, much worse.
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I asked GPT4 : "why did Google fake their Gemini demo ?" And got this strident answer back which I find interesting. "Google did not fake their Gemini demo, but there were controversies and misunderstandings around their AI demonstrations in the past. The specific incident you're referring to might be from a different context or time. For example, there was some controversy around Google's Bard demo when it made a factual error during its launch presentation in 2023. This error led to significant criticism and a drop in Alphabet's stock price."
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