I’ve been a lurker here since pretty much it started gaining traction.

And it’s becoming very obvious that it’s increasingly turning into r/ProgrammerHumor where anyone with even a couple years of experience as a developer could tell that an ever growing number of these people have never been paid to be a developer at a company in their lives.

This is how nearly every comment chain goes now:

1. Arguments/Debates/Discussions are started by Person A, as they should.
2. Person M, who is completely out of touch with how things work replies with something ridiculous.
3. Person A or Person B, replies to them, who very obviously has experience and breaks it down for them ELI5 style.
4. Person M doesn’t understand any of what they said, so they say something else more ridiculous.
5. Go back to 2 and repeat until Person A or B gives up.

I don’t have a solution, but any Person B’s out there should understand that stating an issue doesn’t require one.

Original study Link here

Another study Link here and excerpt below:

AI helped participants better discern what’s real – and resulted in a 21% higher chance they would make the right call. But their unassisted performance, when reviewing new images without AI’s help, grew 15.3% worse in the experiment’s fourth week. “These results indicate that while AI may help immediately, it may ultimately degrade long-term misinformation detection abilities,” the study noted.

Not just chatgpt but AI coding is a relevant comparison as well. Loss of skills and thinking are even more prevalent with software development.

I entered the industry in 2013. At the time, most documentation was technically readable by humans and if you didn’t understand something, it was because you didn’t understand the tooling being used or the commands and you needed to do more research on your own. Increasingly complex technical specs and commands were usually provided with diagrams, screenshots, long descriptions. I remember the most complex thing ever was working on robust CICD pipelines like Kafka or early AWS, but even that was conquerable by referring to the documentation and poring over Stackoverflow.

Fast forward to now. I got hired ~4 months ago after 10 months of looking. Everyone at my company heavily uses LLMs - to generate documentation, read documentation, write code. That’s fine. But I can see the effect that even a few months have had on our documentation - due to the loop of using LLMS to read existing docs then generate the new set of docs for some new feature doing a +1 on the last, …

At this point there is strong evidence that AI does not increase velocity much outside of startups because it moves the bottleneck to review, and does not solve the political, procedural or practical friction in large enterprises that soaks up most time anyway. Various academic studies have also shown low impact to overall productivity at the firm and individual level.

But it seems like this reality is not getting through to engineering leaders AT ALL. My questions is, under what circumstances will tech leaders be forced to drop the narrative? Because the gulf between people who use AI to do our daily work and the higher ups who don’t code anymore just keeps getting wider.

You know how it goes. 20 percent of the effort gives you 80 percent of the result, the last 20 percent require 80 percent of the effort

With AI it feel like you get the first 80 percent almost for free, but the amount of effort required to make the last 20 percent to get a great result instead of mediocre feels so huge in comparison that it pushes you to start accept the mediocre results. Because that’s what your competitors are doing and mediocre is good enough for the business given the low cost

I recently saw a vibecoded game with a very similar concept to what I was tinkering on in my spare time for a few years now. It’s garbage in terms of polishing, UX, implementation, design, but it works, and gives you the core of the experience. And my project is still months away from being a complete game, even though I’m also leveraging AI tools, just with a much higher quality bar, still putting thought in every little piece

If I would accept the same quality bar, I …

Bitwarden is introducing a dual-licensing model. Starting with the next release, official app store builds will use a commercial license, while GPLv3 versions remain available on GitHub.

According to Bitwarden:

• Existing features remain available in both versions.
• Self-hosting and forking remain supported.
• Future features may be exclusive to commercially licensed builds.
• The free plan remains unchanged.

The main concern for me (and probably others in this community) is the potential divergence between the open-source and commercial versions over time.

Source: https://community.bitwarden.com/t/published-version-update-in-app-stores/102750/41

Hey all, happy Wednesday.

Self-hoster, same as most of you. Pi-hole, mattermost, home automations, a Zeek sensor, a dozen Linux boxes and, like everyone (I expect), a /var/log I almost never open unless I’m actively troubleshooting something. But this year’s avalanche of CVEs has been sitting in the back of my head for a while: “if something got in here, would I even know?”

So I went looking for a tool and found a gap instead. There’s good ol’ grep on one end and a full SIEM on the other, and not much in between for just a guy and his stuff. I ended up making my own. It’s called sigwood and is at 1.1 as of today.

What it does: point it at logs you already have (Zeek, Pi-hole/dnsmasq, syslog or journald, CloudTrail if you have any cloud stuff) and it runs a handful of statistical detectors over them. Outbound connections with a beacon rhythm, DNS names that look machine-generated, port scans, big transfers out, odd TLS setups, rare syslog lines and reboots, that kind of …

Sometimes I see the crazy homelabs people post here, with full racks, enterprise hardware, beautiful cable management… and then I look at my collection of old office PCs lol.

I thought I’d share how I got here because I feel like self-hosting can look a lot more expensive and complicated than it actually needs to be.

My first server was literally a crappy old computer my high school gave me for free.

I knew pretty much nothing about Linux, networking or servers. I just installed Ubuntu, discovered Docker and decided I wanted to get Jellyfin running.I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I was asking AI to explain commands, Docker Compose, permissions, why things weren’t working… basically learning by breaking stuff and trying again.

Eventually Jellyfin worked. Then I wanted my own cloud storage, then a music server, then something for my books, and somehow there’s always another service you want to try. And that’s how one old PC eventually …

What do you use it for, and what maintenance has it needed? I’m interested in services that earn their place over time.

First time I’ve seen a dev beg people to stop paying them. Anyone know what’s going on, lol?

AniFix.org is now live! I goofed the first post and it’s now fixed pointing to the correct place sorry!

A Usenet indexer focused on strong metadata, consistent naming, and verified releases.

Feel free to take a look, ask questions, or share feedback!

Anyone else have issues with Ninjacentral?

Hey everyone, I have a lifetime subscription to Usenet Crawler, and I really like it because it has a lot of Linux ISOs in Brazilian Portuguese. Can you recommend any other indexers with a good amount of Brazilian Portuguese Linux ISOs to subscribe to during the Black Friday sales?

I have decided to go with Usenet for Arrstack apps. Can someone guide me on which provider to choose among Newshosting, Eweka, and Usenetserver? Or am I missing anything else? I would also appreciate guidance on which indexer to choose. SABnbz is the application I will use.

Just created my small Usenet uploading tool.

There are mostly three reasons:

- I always had issues with installing Nyuu on my systems due to dependencies
- Nyuu unexpectedly died on me during very big upload when WiFi got disconnected
- Nyuu’s checking/repairing logic makes no sense to me. It uploads article to server A, checks availability on server B, and if that fails, uploads article again to server A. In the past I was encountering some situations when there was some kind of bottleneck, and even with longer wait and three retries article had not enough time to travel from server A to server B, so Nyuu pointlessly was trying to send same article over and over to server A until upload fails. So instead of ABA logic, I implemented ABB and ABC.

Couple of things about it:

- Written in Elixir
- It’s using same .authinfo files as Emacs
- I didn’t do any speed comparisons. I suspect with modern code execution speeds we’ll hit disc speed limit/connection speed limit long before we’ll …

Who the hell has $1,200 burning a hole in their pocket

Are the people who run Plex smoking crack???

Almost 2 years since Sonarr v4 released, we are ready to announce that the Sonarr v5 beta is launching, and its big! At almost 1000 commits by almost 100 contributors we are ready to open up v5 to users for beta testing.

Competition

To celebrate this milestone we’re launching a community competition, giving our users the chance to be part of Sonarr forever by suggesting your own ICONIC loading message! Submissions of loading messages are open for 4 weeks, and can be submitted via this Google Form.

After submissions are closed our dev team will shortlist our favourite suggestions and then open them up to community voting. The top chosen results will be added to Sonarr in time for the final v5 launch!

Major Changes

There are many changes to both the front end UI as well as the backend system, including some long desired features. As such downgrading back to v4 is not possible unless you restore a v4 backup. Here is a summary of things that are changing:

User Interface …

The latest update is pure slop. It’s slow, buggy and worst of all has poor thoughtless design decisions. You will lose users to a competitor, maybe one that doesn’t even exist it yet. If you add enough friction to a product, eventually something will replace it. Do you want to end up being the next Adobe?

There’s no shame in admitting you’ve made a mistake and keeping whatever goodwill you have with your userbase.

I know several members of your team read this subreddit and I hope the message is clear.

Title is from the linked article.

Any thoughts if this is going to run Plex better?