Folks, if you're scared of LLM-using ubermensches 1000x-ing you at your job - don't be. Your job is safe, I promise.
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jul 21, 2025, 7:11 am • 16 1 • view
Oh this is good. As someone who works with physical tools this is hilarious.
jul 21, 2025, 11:29 am • 3 0 • view
Maybe because I came to development later in life, but the actual philosophy is “move fast and break things.” Imagine doing that while installing cabinetry. While we don’t accumulate physical excess, we do create code excess (debt, slop, etc) which can slow and break an app.
jul 21, 2025, 1:17 pm • 1 0 • view
The whole philosophy around it is “as long as it works mostly, launch it, we need the revenue.” Thing is, that situation never changes. And so each update and new feature is half-assed. At this point, it’s the bosses doing this. Devs are sick of it. Yet they fall for this shit.
jul 21, 2025, 1:17 pm • 2 1 • view
It just has to be good enough to maximize profit without becoming a real liability in a short enough time to eat their bonuses.
jul 21, 2025, 1:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Even if it eats the bonuses that’s not a big deal. For bosses and founders that can actually become a part of the “self-sacrifice” narrative they feed to the VC they’re trying to sell the barely-functional app to. Then the VC fires the devs who know the code, enshittify it even more, and laugh.
jul 21, 2025, 1:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Hype it, ship it, get paid and GTFO before it costs anything to fix. I get it.
jul 21, 2025, 1:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Every installer I know who has ever tried this approach to business was out of business quickly. I think it’s because websites aren’t structural - but sometimes they are, and there’s no regulations (or few) around its structural integrity in those cases.
jul 21, 2025, 1:26 pm • 0 0 • view
As we become more tech reliant and app reliant, it’s beyond belief we don’t have federal standards around it in the same way we have local and national standards for other things that touch our infrastructure.
jul 21, 2025, 1:26 pm • 0 0 • view
You best believe those national regulations are going to be eliminated ASAP.
jul 21, 2025, 1:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Much in the same way that building a single family home has different regulations than building a commercial property, the type of site should matter. A simple 5 page portfolio doesn’t need a lot of oversight because there’s no societal impact. But medical tech? Financial tech? That’s different.
jul 21, 2025, 1:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Behind every startup that enshittified is a founder who had a good idea and enough knowledge to get started, and 3-7 developers who actually built it and then got shafted.
jul 21, 2025, 1:24 pm • 2 0 • view
It always cracks me up that developers of all people tend to be the ones most prone to fads and idiotic marketing. If ever there were a case for STEM + Liberal Arts. I barely trust AI for copy and paste. No way I’m giving it CRUD access to anything.
jul 21, 2025, 1:14 pm • 2 0 • view