I want to warmly thank #Square engineers for Dagger, OkHttp, Okio, Retrofit, Moshi, Picasso, JavaPoet and KotlinPoet, Seismic, TimesSquare, LeakCanary, Anvil, Wire, Tape, SQL Brite and SQLDelight, Otto and other outstanding contributions to the Android and Java ecosystems.
It's truly the end of an era.
#Block #layoffs #AndroidDev

A.I. is the greatest enshittification engine ever created by humankind.

it's pretty funny being one of the most experienced Gradle build engineers in the world (particularly in the context of extremely large repos, both Android and Kotlin backend), and the primary criterion by which I'm judged these days is the extent to which I've scooped out my brain and replaced it with a bot that says "I'm very excited by the potential of generative ai" on a loop.

Using JIRA makes me angry.

2016: "You're overreacting!"
2017: "You're overreacting!"
2018: "You're overreacting!"
2019: "You're overreacting!"
2020: "You're overreacting!"
2021: "You're overreacting!"
2024: "You're overreacting!"
2025: "You're overreacting!"
2026: "Well there was no way of knowing it would get this bad..."

I recently migrated our codebase away from Ktlint to Ktfmt and Detekt. I summarized the reasons and migration steps in a blog post: https://engineering.block.xyz/blog/adopting-ktfmt-and-detekt

I have no idea what the source of this image is, but yeah, I Laughed Out Loud.

just called ai "the mediocrity machine" in a meeting and the tech bro is shaking a finger at me and twitching so hard he can't even plug what's happening into the machine so it can tell him how to respond