Emelia/Emi

@da_667 @eniko And some of us can also "smell" that rot, even if we can't definitively identify why. I've read enough of "other people's code" that I can generally 'see' approximately what they were thinking when they wrote it. LLM-extruded code is just as 'soulless' as normal text, and I'm still not exactly sure how, but I can feel that there's "something missing." Even the worst human-written stuff has that 'soul' to it that I can feel, and I was a CS tutor for my entire time in college, so I've seen some pretty bad code... "The lights are on, but nobody's home" is a fitting description for how it feels to me. It feels hollow more than anything else, even if it "works" in the loosest sense of the word.

@0xabad1dea I'm wondering what the actual performance bottleneck is, I suspect there's a good bit of "low hanging fruit" nobody's bothered to optimize "because it's not worth the effort" with how fast modern GPUs are.

@jiub @ShadowJonathan mine was a physical button under my desk, in the form of a cheap KVM. Because occasionally the i915 driver would just fail to buffer swap for one reason or another, so the output stuck on the last displayed frame, and gnome would never retry it. Give it a kick by unplugging and re-plugging the monitors and it came right back. With such a cheap KVM, switching inputs is roughly equivalent to just yanking the cords out of the back of the machine, so it did the job just fine without needing to reach down and interact with the actual box.

@AmyZenunim ...and shortly after I made that reply, one of my coworkers PRed a giant mass of vibecode. Thankfully it's almost entirely DTOs in a brand new package, so it couldn't mangle things that badly, but it's clear from the comments and (lack of) naming "sense" that he just let the "AI" run wild without really understanding anything it was doing. Certainly doesn't help that his programming fundamentals were somewhat lacking to begin with, though. (I noticed him starting to lean on it a while back and warned him it was a bad idea. Looks like he hasn't listened...) (I can also Just Tell that it wasn't him who wrote most of it. It's not written in his usual style at all. There was no real thought process, only pulling the handle on the fruit machine and committing the result if it looked like it got things closer to working. And yes, I can tell that just from the code. It's soulless, the thought patterns I can usually see just aren't there)

@AmyZenunim I'm getting whiffs of that coming down the pipe at [redacted] and am currently hoping to high hell that the bubble goes bang before that happens... I've had to explain to my boss that one of the reasons I'm so far above my "experience bracket" in terms of programming skill is because I don't think in "natural language," so prompting the robot slows me down, and that's on top of all the other bullshit. (And I do actually have documented disabilities with regards to putting thoughts into natural language, so I suspect the ADA could have some teeth if they try to force the issue...)