Two things are true:
1. Claims about AI capabilities are overblown
2. AI has completely revolutionized software development, and will do the same to many other fields
I'm a software developer by trade. I'm going to attempt to explain what this revolution feels like "from the inside".
1. Claims about AI capabilities are overblown
2. AI has completely revolutionized software development, and will do the same to many other fields
I'm a software developer by trade. I'm going to attempt to explain what this revolution feels like "from the inside".
October 30, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Two things are true:
1. Claims about AI capabilities are overblown
2. AI has completely revolutionized software development, and will do the same to many other fields
I'm a software developer by trade. I'm going to attempt to explain what this revolution feels like "from the inside".
1. Claims about AI capabilities are overblown
2. AI has completely revolutionized software development, and will do the same to many other fields
I'm a software developer by trade. I'm going to attempt to explain what this revolution feels like "from the inside".
Bonnou Yobikou 3 // Software House Parsley // PC-98
November 1, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Bonnou Yobikou 3 // Software House Parsley // PC-98
Will someone PLEASE just set up an AI-free enterprise software suite w/email, word, powerpoint, excel, video meetings, etc and take my money.
October 30, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Will someone PLEASE just set up an AI-free enterprise software suite w/email, word, powerpoint, excel, video meetings, etc and take my money.
Muppet Monster Adventure (PlayStation, Magenta Software, 2000)
October 31, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Muppet Monster Adventure (PlayStation, Magenta Software, 2000)
All commercial software exists to solve a problem of its users; to "do the thing", whatever it is. If the software does the thing, it works, and that's the end of it.
October 30, 2026 at 7:26 PM
All commercial software exists to solve a problem of its users; to "do the thing", whatever it is. If the software does the thing, it works, and that's the end of it.
Iberian Coast (Vengeance of Excalibur, DOS, Synergistic Software, 1991)
October 30, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Iberian Coast (Vengeance of Excalibur, DOS, Synergistic Software, 1991)
industrial sized hardware, same software
October 30, 2026 at 2:54 AM
industrial sized hardware, same software
For the software developers still here, when an LLM does something you dislike, odds are that it's an optimization problem, and as a software developer, you are quite good at solving those.
October 30, 2026 at 7:26 PM
For the software developers still here, when an LLM does something you dislike, odds are that it's an optimization problem, and as a software developer, you are quite good at solving those.
This thread is a good summary of how dramatically the craft of software engineering has changed over the past 12 months
Two things are true:
1. Claims about AI capabilities are overblown
2. AI has completely revolutionized software development, and will do the same to many other fields
I'm a software developer by trade. I'm going to attempt to explain what this revolution feels like "from the inside".
1. Claims about AI capabilities are overblown
2. AI has completely revolutionized software development, and will do the same to many other fields
I'm a software developer by trade. I'm going to attempt to explain what this revolution feels like "from the inside".
October 31, 2026 at 6:15 PM
This thread is a good summary of how dramatically the craft of software engineering has changed over the past 12 months
God fucking dammit can one piece of software not try and FUCK me
October 29, 2026 at 3:35 PM
God fucking dammit can one piece of software not try and FUCK me
As a software engineer, this gets my vote
Universal Time
Get rid of the AM/PM horseshit and go to a standard 24hr clock. Everyone knows when morning is. It's when the sun comes up. It doesn't really matter if that is 0500 or 1500.
Get rid of the AM/PM horseshit and go to a standard 24hr clock. Everyone knows when morning is. It's when the sun comes up. It doesn't really matter if that is 0500 or 1500.
November 1, 2026 at 12:09 AM
As a software engineer, this gets my vote
[Guy who hasn’t produced good software before or after the advent of LLMs]: It’s pretty amazing how much quicker it is to build good software now
October 29, 2026 at 2:58 PM
[Guy who hasn’t produced good software before or after the advent of LLMs]: It’s pretty amazing how much quicker it is to build good software now
Berenstain Bears Jr. Jigsaw (Britannica Software, 1989) #DOSGaming
November 1, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Berenstain Bears Jr. Jigsaw (Britannica Software, 1989) #DOSGaming
October 28, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Even as someone who works in Software...
this can't come soon enough. There's a lot of tech companies that need some humbling.
this can't come soon enough. There's a lot of tech companies that need some humbling.
October 30, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Even as someone who works in Software...
this can't come soon enough. There's a lot of tech companies that need some humbling.
this can't come soon enough. There's a lot of tech companies that need some humbling.
we already have malleable software, software you can beat into shape with a hammer. what's missing is soft software, repairable software, I can put my hands into the pool of plasma and squishy squishy software, wirey bits and pieces chunks and lumps and parts of things and scissor snip and sellotape
November 1, 2026 at 2:35 PM
we already have malleable software, software you can beat into shape with a hammer. what's missing is soft software, repairable software, I can put my hands into the pool of plasma and squishy squishy software, wirey bits and pieces chunks and lumps and parts of things and scissor snip and sellotape
why do i even talk to software engineers at work anymore all they do is copy/paste claude at me. im dead serious
November 1, 2026 at 5:43 PM
why do i even talk to software engineers at work anymore all they do is copy/paste claude at me. im dead serious
The leaked records include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities, workers’ cell phone numbers, and the members of groups tied to wiretap programs, Palantir software, and xAI’s Grok chatbot.
Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers—Including Undercover ICE Agents
The leaked records include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities, workers’ cell phone numbers, and the members of groups tied to wiretap programs, Palantir software, and xAI’s Grok chatbot.
buff.ly
October 31, 2026 at 2:45 PM
The leaked records include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities, workers’ cell phone numbers, and the members of groups tied to wiretap programs, Palantir software, and xAI’s Grok chatbot.
Software is a most malleable substance, a fungible substrate for making imagination manifest in the physical world.
November 1, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Software is a most malleable substance, a fungible substrate for making imagination manifest in the physical world.
Someone on here told me that more jobs are like software development than the people doing those jobs appreciates. And I wonder anew who are these people and have they ever left the house
Two things are true:
1. Claims about AI capabilities are overblown
2. AI has completely revolutionized software development, and will do the same to many other fields
I'm a software developer by trade. I'm going to attempt to explain what this revolution feels like "from the inside".
1. Claims about AI capabilities are overblown
2. AI has completely revolutionized software development, and will do the same to many other fields
I'm a software developer by trade. I'm going to attempt to explain what this revolution feels like "from the inside".
November 1, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Someone on here told me that more jobs are like software development than the people doing those jobs appreciates. And I wonder anew who are these people and have they ever left the house
fuck pat mcafee and his virus protection software
October 27, 2026 at 12:57 PM
fuck pat mcafee and his virus protection software
My job title, is Agent Orchestration Engineer.
My job, is to solve problems.
If I started running around gastowning, I would get dropped.
A lot of people seem to think the "Software" part of "Software Engineer" is the important one, and not the Engineer part, with Software as only the method used
My job, is to solve problems.
If I started running around gastowning, I would get dropped.
A lot of people seem to think the "Software" part of "Software Engineer" is the important one, and not the Engineer part, with Software as only the method used
"my code is handcrafted and artisanal"
running face first into
"yeah what I really was hiring you for was *list of business outcomes*"
running face first into
"yeah what I really was hiring you for was *list of business outcomes*"
October 29, 2026 at 7:57 PM
My job title, is Agent Orchestration Engineer.
My job, is to solve problems.
If I started running around gastowning, I would get dropped.
A lot of people seem to think the "Software" part of "Software Engineer" is the important one, and not the Engineer part, with Software as only the method used
My job, is to solve problems.
If I started running around gastowning, I would get dropped.
A lot of people seem to think the "Software" part of "Software Engineer" is the important one, and not the Engineer part, with Software as only the method used
i hate software engineer halloween. what do you mean you’re dressed up as the eMudrah Certificate Authority
October 29, 2026 at 10:46 PM
i hate software engineer halloween. what do you mean you’re dressed up as the eMudrah Certificate Authority