So, then you are in favor of the disclosures?

Sounds absolutely fucking awful.

However, I can’t tell you whether a suitable driver is already on board.

It likely isn’t. PC enthusiast Windows users all know that installing any device that isn’t very typical (monitors, keyboards, mice) usually involves hunting for drivers online if you didn’t keep the disk. When I buy different hardware (for example I bought a USB toslink adapter, and a USB to USB serial emulator) it most times comes with a tiny, useless little disk for Windows users.

This is generally not the case for Linux, but since you’re inexperienced with the OS you’d have no way of knowing that.

Shit works (or not, but often does) without the need to install additional drivers for every stupid little thing.

I mostly agree with this, but in corporate software the stuff mostly either doesn’t exist or is outdated to the point of basic inaccuracy.

I’m talking readmes that still have the template information in them or have stayed the same since the first commit.

IMO the best way to use this crap in software development for projects that already exist is to have the fucking things write up or amend docs.

Developers mostly hate writing docs, and in corporate software I’ve found that the docs are usually added once and then never verified again.

Writing up profuse gibberish that contains some amount of useful information is what these bullshit machines were made to do. Have it write up some docs, read them and make sure they aren’t completely insane and get a pat on the back from your boss for working with “agentic AI”.

Ick

Bought a lifetime Plex pass a few years ago so this doesn’t affect me. It’s honestly worth the cost especially over time.

Dude containers are often easier than running the underlying programs.

Doubt

I think Comey is basically free and clear after this, as his charges were close to the statute of limitations upon filing iirc, for Letitia James’ charges I’m not sure on the details.

But I’ve never had sympathy for engineers who think all the process around them is net negative, because nothings ever stopped engineers from striking out on their own, without all that, and making great businesses.

Not all process is pointless, but needless process by definition is. There are also a shit ton of things that stop engineers from “striking out on their own”.

If your PM and VPs are bringing you down, go it alone. If you can’t pull that together into a paycheck then maybe it’s not all as useless as some say.

The whole talk of “go[ing] it alone” kinda strikes me as “bootstrapping”, libertarian non-sense.

I don’t want to do marketing, sales, finance, legal, and product bullshit myself. That’s why I’m an employee.

Two things can be true at the same time, for instance, a company can have a lot of bloated, needless process that stifles people and still pull in enough money to be able to pay for their employees to live a life.

With the amount of market concentration there is in every sector as far as the eye can see, nearly every software-producing company has a cash cow of some sort, and then has a bunch of complete money losers that are subsidized by that cash cow.

So, it’s completely possible that the company overall fully sucks and hasn’t developed anything new of value to someone in decades, but the legacy business keeps the miserable employees from the bread line.

To return to the point, AI doesn’t solve any of this or even help with it.

The problems in software still remain the same though:

(1) Bureaucracy

(2) Needless process

(3) Pointy headed managers

(4) Siloed teams

(5) Product people who have no idea what they want to build

(6) Shitty, poorly performing legacy code nobody wants to touch

Honestly, AI is just the latest thing that can boost your productivity at starting up some random app. But that was never the difficult part anyway.