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Gave my devs the tasks of replacing #jQuery syntax with vanilla #javascript. Rather than a one to one conversion, they handed the entire file to #Claude, and it rewrote absolutely everything.
Since I don't have the capacity to review every line of code that has been change in the next 24 hours, we have to decide between pulling the changes from this release or putting out a bunch of #AI slop.
I hate the world right now.
I have no idea what to do with this pull request that I got from a coworker. It has variable setting and checks for null values that would absolutely be needed if you were writing #PHP code, but are completely superfluous when writing #Twig for #Drupal. If you access a null value, null happens.
Should we be encouraging formal programming practices in twig, or boil all of those lines of code down to just this?
{% set para_id = title|first['#object'].id() %}
Well, if nothing else, the Iran War is a great analogy for how it can be easy to get over 90% of a #WebDevelopment project done and then completely bogged down on one problematic task.
From now on, when someone is planning on using an opinionated library to build a custom feature, because they will get so much progress right out of the box, I'm going to say "Good luck opening the Strait of Hormuz!"
RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116399965854914021
Not only don't AI business cases make a lick of sense - They™️ are in the process of dismantling all of Big Tech's other revenue streams, too.
AI is sucking up all the RAM so they can't sell us a new computer every 8 months & therefore they can't keep upgrading the software & now the're realizing that putting everyone out of work means eliminating their entire customer base for productivity apps.
It's almost like these "business geniuses" are a bunch of fucking idiots.
The #AI industry is powerful, but as they try to build more #DataCenters, they are discovering they are nothing compared to the power of good old fashioned American #NIMBYism.
"The hype in 2021 was really something. Wall Street threw itself into the project with the enthusiasm of a man who's just been handed a laser gun and a goat."
That has to be one of the greatest callbacks within a video of all time.
People say that I have a dry sense of humor, but #PatrickBoyle is in an entirely different league. This takedown of #MarkZuckerberg is absolutely brutal.
How Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke ext4 Hardlinks
｢ The culprit? A single reaction GIF, duplicated 246,173 times... ｣
https://blog.discourse.org/2026/04/how-jennifer-aniston-and-friends-cost-us-377gb-and-broke-ext4-hardlinks/
RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116376219055579156
I know a lot of people, in software and otherwise, who are feeling things along these lines.
Hold on, whatever tools you’re using, just hold on to your sense of purpose and meaning. There are a lot of forces at work in this world that want to rob you of that. Your feeling of losing that is not recognition of some new fact of our reality; it is you experiencing a psychological weapon.
Lesley Carhart 
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency
jbz
Paul Cantrell