There are many more examples from the past but I’ll use only this one. Some guy posted his experience on how people using AI in his company pass the responsibility for code from them to code reviewers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1raer4s/vibe_coders_passing_responsibility_to_code/

His post was long, very accurate and with couple of good points. Below it there was a GREAT discussion with ~500 comments where other people shared their experience. I copypasted link to this post to two of my friends that are also programmers like me. Today I entered the link and I saw that post was deleted because of “Low Effort” without any other explanation. I don’t understand why they are doing this, what’s the point?

I work at a BigCo that is all in on AI, big presence in India, done a few layoff rounds, all that good stuff.

Now, it seems like the US workforce is ridiculously top-heavy. There used to be quite a few fresh grads hired every year, now there are less, and only very occasional hiring of junior folks.

I guess the aspiration is that the junior stuff gets done by India, AI, etc…the reality, though, seems to be that lots of experienced, senior people end up doing pretty mundane stuff, like, you know, upgrading libraries, adding metrics, doing releases, whatever else, because there are no junior people to do that.

Which then means that, there aren’t really people around to actually _do_ any architecture or strategy stuff, like, upgrade to modern libraries and frameworks, make things cloud-native, make things fast, etc… because they’re too busy doing all the busywork that the missing junior people can’t do.

It’s a bit weird. Seems like the opposite of …

I don’t usually talk about this but I’ve been writing about process and organizational dysfunction lately and people keep asking what actually happened to me so here it is.

About five years ago I was working as an IT architect at a bank. Except I didn’t really get “hired” in the normal sense. I was part of a corporate transition from Brazil, my previous project got killed and because I was already in the US on a work visa they absorbed me into the bank’s team. And I mean absorbed, not hired. Everyone knew the difference. The guy running the org never wanted us there, we were basically imposed on him through a decision made three levels above.

The tech was a mess. Classic ASP, manual IIS deployments, someone remoting into a box at midnight and praying. Everything ran on tribal knowledge from people who’d been doing it that way for a decade and didn’t want to change. There was this one senior dev, longest tenured guy on the team, and …

I’m not feeling threatened or inadequate or anything. I think it’s a nice problem to have overall.

We’re a tiny team : a part time PM, me as the full time lead dev (11YoE), and a university student who is on his final internship with us and will absolutely be offered a full time job if he wants it.

It took like, two days to onboard him. I can just leave this guy to himself for a week and he will eventually produce a high quality merge request. Idiomatic code that fits within the established standards, good UX, good commenting and factoring practices, etc etc.

He has asked for my help maybe twice in the couple of months since he started. I will ask for corrections and modifications here and there but at least 95% of what he makes is perfect on the first try.

We’re not really an AI shop (I personally use it for minor boilerplate and to ask questions when documentation or search engines fail me) and as far as I know he doesn’t have AI redact code for him …

Hey, everyone. I’ve been thinking about something for a while and I’d like your opinion on it.

I had a leader a few years back that used to say that he liked the lazy developers, because they’re the ones that come up with simpler solutions, and I completely agree, I’ve always felt like I was a lazy dev.

However, with the ai usage increasing, complex code is easier to write. I know that everybody has talked about this already and that’s not my point.

My point is, since we’re not the ones actually doing the dirty work, it gets much easier to create more microservices than you have users, or adding 10 layers of abstraction to anything.

I think that, for me, at least, I have to be careful not to become that astronaut architect, designing that “perfect” white marble tower

Today, after raising security concerns in a post on r/huntarr regarding the lack of development standards in what looks like a 100% vibe-coded project, I was banned. This made my spidey senses tingle, so I decided to do a security review of the codebase. What I found was… not good. TLDR: If you have Huntarr exposed on your stack, anyone can pull your API keys for Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, and every other connected app without logging in, gaining full control over your media stack.

The process

I did a security review of Huntarr.io (v9.4.2) and found critical auth bypass vulnerabilities. I’m posting this here because Huntarr sits on top of (and is now trying to replace them as well!) Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, and other *arr apps that have years of security hardening behind them. If you install Huntarr, you’re adding an app with zero authentication on its most sensitive endpoints, and that punches a hole through whatever network security you’ve set up for the …

UPDATE : https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1rfroov/update_large_us_company_came_after_me_for/

⚠️⚠️ EDIT : [Company A] CEO reached out to me with a nice tone and his point of view, which I really appreciate, also with a mild apology for sending the legal doc first without communication (the got the message we wanted to deliver). I hold nothing against their business personally and I am always more than happy to comply with reasonable demands (like removing trademarked name parts from project), but I don’t think the exporter is against the rules (I have my own logic for fair business practice) and now the CEO wants to meet for a quick call (I hope friendly), to discuss and reason things out. I need to present my points fairly as well and don’t want to get pressured/voiced down, just because I am alone with my logic. I am sure as a company with > 1 million $ revenue they have a larger backing.

⚠️⚠️ I am already in chat with u/Archiver_test4 as a legal …

This is a follow up to my previous post regarding the C&D notice I received. I have some incredible news for the community: the matter is officially resolved in favor of the entire drone community.

TLDR: AirData UAV has complied with community concerns, implemented a robust data takeout solution, and we have settled the matter gracefully.

The free OSS project in question : www.opendronelog.com

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Since the legal threat is no longer active, I can finally name the company. It was AirData UAV, a US based drone log analysis and reporting service. Eran said it’s my choice to name them or not name them here in this update post, I choose to name, because I don’t have anything bad to say anymore.

Despite the first approach was a C&D, the final outcome was actually better than I hoped for (surprised actually!). A massive thank you goes to u/Archiver_test4, who acted as my legal representative pro bono (for free!! and denied donations). …

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Been trying to get access to NZBPlanet and NZBFinder.ws for the past few hours and it’s really slow / down. Been through this a few times now and it’s always related to Cloudflare issues. Any recommended indexers out there that don’t use Cloudflare?

FYI, I know some are going to chime in and say it works fine. I believe you but Cloudflare has many servers and it’s going to depend on where you live.

With the last open registration of DogNZB I got in. But it has a extremely long responsetimes and has connection issues. Can I just keep the account or do I need to pay to keep the account open?

new 22TB drive finally arrived today, was excited to finally replace this failing drive in the server and….oh….people are watching movies :( guess ill wait

…WERE ABSOLUTELY FINE AND STAYED HOW I WANTED THEM TO!

Shoutout to all the folks who recommended the only real solution, adding local artwork for every film (over the course of many weeks, made somewhat brainless if not painless with TMM).

Appreciate everyone’s help, and if this has ever plagued you like it plagued me, may this post find you in the future.