angrydev

Anyone want to spill what their buyout offer was?

EA bought Bioware 19 years ago. Are you saying this was their strategy for two decades?

Good bait

Yes and they are the most unobtrusive “ads” you could possibly imagine. This thread is weird. There’s even a guy in here shilling for an unreleased “Elon Phone”.

Because I like being productive and earning money

If you enjoy learning about the history of labor and free time, I highly recommend the book Free Time by Gary Cross.

If you enjoyed "4000 Weeks" historical analysis of labor I invite you to check out "Free Time" by Gary Cross. It expands on it greatly, taking it through the industrial age. Relevant to your comment Cross makes the case that another reason work was not done in excess was there were not many luxury goods to purchase. Only the extreme elites could afford what little there were. There was no real return on selling more of your time for money.

Here is the original blog post, in case anyone is curious about the 'good path' https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/earth/na...

> Ex: Help students visualize the past instead of just reading about it. Teachers can show their classroom a historic site and type, “Render a hyper-realistic view of what these Pompeii ruins looked like in 78 A.D.” The modern-day ruins will instantly transform into a bustling, colorful street scene from the Roman Empire.

Wow. These are all terrible. Music video producers can breathe a sigh of relief.

> omg, did you see Brian’s hat?

“You shipped the Al feature. It is a wrapper around an API wrapper around an API. Stock +9%. You feel nothing.”

Anyone else in the club?

Fluff and an ad for text expander

Baristas in NYC don't care about being greeted specifically. They want to take your order so they can move the line along. You will get a very strange look if you try to small talk in a busy cafe.

Hey, this one's about me!

This is my experience but haven’t used linear in 2 years. Switching to JIRA was miserable.

Published Feb 11, 2026

Compared to near unusable pages that large organizations produce, yes this page is highly effective at conveying information. Who cares how it was produced?

Oh boy, I don’t know about this one. You are born into a body that is so complicated we will perhaps never understand how all of it works. Our society if anything wrangled so much of the chaos of the natural world. It’s hardly simple to live in a world where you are under constant threat from animals, and other humans.

I love boring tech. It's reliable as hell and not as full of hidden surprises. Screw the cutting edge for serious work.

Twilio once put our entire top level account as a sub-account under a national telecommunications company without any notification. Can’t remember how we found out, and nothing broke, but it was a security nightmare that this was possible.

This is some shit, coming with 0 notice at the start of a work week. My exposure to Claude is only via Copilot which has worked very well for my purposes. I didn't have to learn a ton for it to just start working. I guess I'll look into other options now as I really want to continue using Opus, but don't have a need to 4x my spend on Copilot quite yet.

Wait a second...

Agree. The issue was never, how can we get our engineers to squirt out more lines of code in a day? It has always been, how can we effectively iterate using customer feedback to deliver the highest quality product. That type of thing needs time to bake.

2kb ram should be enough for anybody

Autofill

> “What’s the point of it all?” I thought, LLMs can generate decent-ish and correct-ish looking code while I have more time to do what? doomscroll?

You could look back throughout human history at the inventions that made labor more efficient and ask the same question. The time-savings could either result in more time to do even more work, or more time to keep projects on pace at a sane and sustainable rate. It's up to us to choose.

Well said

Pure nostalgia and nothing more

Ton of people in the comments here wanting to blame AI for these outages. Either you are very new to the industry or have forgotten how frequently they happen. Github in particular was a repeat offender before the MS acquisition. us-east-1 went down many times before LLMs came about. Why act like this is a new thing?

What a ridiculous comment, as if these outages didn't happen before LLMs became more commonplace.