I’ve not worked with a marketing team where that would work, but maybe it will for some.

I’ve never been anywhere that I thought it would work, but it ultimately did, almost everywhere.

I’ve found it takes a few iterations, but the marketing folks in on it love being the ones who actually can reliably deliver on their promises.

It doesn’t work for the marketers that promise whatever they please without talking to dev, but I don’t find them to be worthwhile professional allies, so I don’t sweat it.

It doesn’t change the “massive customer will only renew if” scenario, though.

Very true. It doesn’t help with that case, and that one does happen. I’ve had the best luck saying “we don’t do that, but we’re scrambling to add it” in that situation.

The stupidly easy solution is to just give them stuff that has already been successfully delivered to production to market, 9 months from now. There’s invariably a huge backlog of years worth of successes that marketing wasn’t even aware of.

“No deviations will be approved from this year’s Agile product roadmap!”

We’re in a “fuck around” cycle where they pretend that the problem was we didn’t have “copilot”, and not that all of our development managers are wildly unqualified.

The “find out” part comes next.

Which is fucking impossible to fathom, because my fucking grocery store’s app can’t even implement search reliably, today.

I’m not sure how they’re going to manage to make things worse.

Actually, I’ll make a guess. My guess is we will go under the critical skill level needed for building safe hospital equipment, and we will get a rash of that stuff killing people due to lack of programmer skills.

I hope the asshole CEOs are the ones that die, but there’s not enough karma in the world for that.

“extra fingers, too many fingers, not toasted, bad anatomy,” got me. It’s perfect.

Also, your username is perfect for this moment.

Yep. This is the way.

Huh. I recommend 3, only because it’s pretty fun. It’s not good, but it’s fun.

Yeah. This crap was the last straw for me to stop dual booting.

constrained in order to not break the game.

While that’s true, I suspect that whoever gets there first will get a free pass in the court of public opinion, so long as it’s a single player game.

“Look how awful my Sims are” is already a recurring gag hobby, anyway.

It works fine for anyone with the foresight to be born into an ultra wealthy family.

Yeah. But it’s still rare to see “no unicycling” signs so the unicyclers need to get on that.

The mantra that got me through JavaScript was “almost nothing we do here is able to be synchronous”.

Everything about the language makes more sense, with that context.

An LLM pointed at various (local) public sources of data, that can answer (local) voter questions, could be pretty cool.

I.e: "Summarize X candidate’s voting record on tax increases/education/walkable cities/unionization/etc…

My client pre-downloads videos, so I can fast forward and rewind at will.

If only I had a client with support for fast forward… Oh right. I do. Neat.

The obvious solution is to commit more than the average number of crimes of your fellow citizens.

Or, more specifically, more crimes than the average of your cohort of facial recognition doppelgangers.

That way, when the AI brings you to justice, it’s likely to be justice for a lesser crimes than the ones you already got away with.

(Sarcasm)

Switch 2 is coming which I have no desire for.

I was hyped for the Switch 2 until the latest round of bullshit lawsuits. Now I’m going to pass.

I’ll be sure to buy an emulator from China pre-loaded with every Switch 2 title in about a decade, though.

So you only play indie games?

Pretty much.

More specifically, I only play new games that I can verify the author is receiving a fair wage. That tends to be pretty indie.

In the rare case that I’m somehow caught up on my indie game library, I also play open source games and AAA title abandonware.

Moving from “patient gamer” to “gamer with a strong stance against Nintendo’s and EA’s bullshit” honestly wasn’t a huge deal. And it continues to be easy on my wallet.

Yup. This is also why I stopped buying Nintendo products.

Certain ideologies are just not compatible with western culture, specifically those who condone raping women and murdering lgbtq people.

I hear this argument a decent amount, but have never heard it actually expressed - only held up as a straw man argument on immigration issues.

None of us wants shitheads around. Some of us just want to give everyone a chance to prove whether they’re a shithead or not, before deciding whether they can immigrate.