I was in software development for 30 years. The golden rule
"NEVER EVER DEPLOY A SOFTWARE UPDATE ON A FRIDAY!"
"NEVER EVER DEPLOY A SOFTWARE UPDATE ON A FRIDAY!"
November 13, 2026 at 10:07 PM
I was in software development for 30 years. The golden rule
"NEVER EVER DEPLOY A SOFTWARE UPDATE ON A FRIDAY!"
"NEVER EVER DEPLOY A SOFTWARE UPDATE ON A FRIDAY!"
“Agentic software development”?
November 15, 2026 at 6:02 AM
“Agentic software development”?
I was in software development for 30 years. The golden rule
"NEVER EVER DEPLOY A SOFTWARE UPDATE ON A FRIDAY!"
"NEVER EVER DEPLOY A SOFTWARE UPDATE ON A FRIDAY!"
November 13, 2026 at 10:05 PM
I was in software development for 30 years. The golden rule
"NEVER EVER DEPLOY A SOFTWARE UPDATE ON A FRIDAY!"
"NEVER EVER DEPLOY A SOFTWARE UPDATE ON A FRIDAY!"
Worked in software development...you NEVER roll out new software until it's been thoroughly tested on dummy, offline systems and shown to be stable.
"Test what you fly, and fly what you test."
"Test what you fly, and fly what you test."
November 14, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Worked in software development...you NEVER roll out new software until it's been thoroughly tested on dummy, offline systems and shown to be stable.
"Test what you fly, and fly what you test."
"Test what you fly, and fly what you test."
Wolfenstein 3 is in development, developer MachineGames and franchise creators id Software confirmed. https://bit.ly/4sZfExQ
November 13, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Wolfenstein 3 is in development, developer MachineGames and franchise creators id Software confirmed. https://bit.ly/4sZfExQ
Ooh, a whole day where I don't have to do software development. Perfect opportunity to think about doing more software development!
November 14, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Ooh, a whole day where I don't have to do software development. Perfect opportunity to think about doing more software development!
Have I mentioned how much I *loathe* that motto? I dislike it in regular software development, but in anything related to the national infrastructure? NO.
Maybe putting a bunch of people in charge whose motto is "move fast and break things" was a bad idea for the health of our crumbling national infrastructure
November 14, 2026 at 1:04 AM
Have I mentioned how much I *loathe* that motto? I dislike it in regular software development, but in anything related to the national infrastructure? NO.
And I'm someone who does find LLMs very useful for coding/software development - but I fully recognize and am very disturbed by how much worse this has made our already massively damaged epistemic system.
November 15, 2026 at 4:02 PM
And I'm someone who does find LLMs very useful for coding/software development - but I fully recognize and am very disturbed by how much worse this has made our already massively damaged epistemic system.
I feel like this is a good comparison with what's playing out slower with software development. The time to develop software was the slow pipe, and now we're flooding everything.
November 14, 2026 at 10:46 PM
I feel like this is a good comparison with what's playing out slower with software development. The time to develop software was the slow pipe, and now we're flooding everything.
Of course software developers would think generative AI will reduce crunch for software development teams because software developers have been expertly conditioned to be the most naive possible dipshits about our labor conditions.
November 11, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Of course software developers would think generative AI will reduce crunch for software development teams because software developers have been expertly conditioned to be the most naive possible dipshits about our labor conditions.
As part of the Xbox's 25th anniversary celebration at Xbox Fanfest in Seattle today, developer MachineGames and franchise creators id Software confirmed what had long been rumored: that Wolfenstein 3 is in development. https://bit.ly/4sZfExQ
November 13, 2026 at 12:16 AM
As part of the Xbox's 25th anniversary celebration at Xbox Fanfest in Seattle today, developer MachineGames and franchise creators id Software confirmed what had long been rumored: that Wolfenstein 3 is in development. https://bit.ly/4sZfExQ
Same with software development ngl lol
November 13, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Same with software development ngl lol
Whenever AI people say "you can never avoid AI, it's just how software development works now!" I think about how every piece of software has gotten slower and less reliably over the last four years.
Generative AI is great y'all, Steam can't handle slop submissions, Humble slop-deleted 2FA and account settings, Microsoft is down, everything is getting hacked, open source is being strangled, search is destroyed, and the remains of the world economy are dependent on one penis. Leaps and bounds.
November 13, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Whenever AI people say "you can never avoid AI, it's just how software development works now!" I think about how every piece of software has gotten slower and less reliably over the last four years.
Software development.
What did you love, but no longer do?
November 15, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Software development.
It is difficult and high stakes to wholesale replace decades of stability and development. This is why banks still run on Fortran. Probably the more mission critical something is, the more likely it’s using software someone’s grandmother wrote.
November 13, 2026 at 10:48 PM
It is difficult and high stakes to wholesale replace decades of stability and development. This is why banks still run on Fortran. Probably the more mission critical something is, the more likely it’s using software someone’s grandmother wrote.
Yup. Spent my career in software development. Implementing a change on a Friday, during the busiest flying window is total BS. I don't believe this for one second.
November 14, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Yup. Spent my career in software development. Implementing a change on a Friday, during the busiest flying window is total BS. I don't believe this for one second.
I cannot stress enough how much nothing this story is.
Tell me you don't work in software development in 2026 without telling me.
Tell me you don't work in software development in 2026 without telling me.
November 10, 2026 at 1:42 PM
I cannot stress enough how much nothing this story is.
Tell me you don't work in software development in 2026 without telling me.
Tell me you don't work in software development in 2026 without telling me.
As it does every year, the "so what is software, exactly?" question took up half of the software development week in Futures of Work.
November 12, 2026 at 9:53 PM
As it does every year, the "so what is software, exactly?" question took up half of the software development week in Futures of Work.
jesus what a clown fiesta, software development really has turned into complete dogshit nowadays huh.
November 12, 2026 at 11:09 AM
jesus what a clown fiesta, software development really has turned into complete dogshit nowadays huh.
As someone who has built and led the development of several software projects, I have too many questions.
What do you mean “overwhelming the system?” Was integration testing not properly done with the legacy system before deployment? Can a tech person in the FAA speak on this?
What do you mean “overwhelming the system?” Was integration testing not properly done with the legacy system before deployment? Can a tech person in the FAA speak on this?
WOW MULLIN SAYS THE UPGRADES DUFFY PUT IN CAUSED THE OUTAGE
“The new technology was overwhelming the older system”
“The new technology was overwhelming the older system”
November 14, 2026 at 3:14 PM
As someone who has built and led the development of several software projects, I have too many questions.
What do you mean “overwhelming the system?” Was integration testing not properly done with the legacy system before deployment? Can a tech person in the FAA speak on this?
What do you mean “overwhelming the system?” Was integration testing not properly done with the legacy system before deployment? Can a tech person in the FAA speak on this?
This isn’t even a “AI doesn’t work” post. Of course it works for software development because software development is fucking easy compared to any real job, especially if you get to pretend shit like copyright doesn’t exist.
November 11, 2026 at 7:03 AM
This isn’t even a “AI doesn’t work” post. Of course it works for software development because software development is fucking easy compared to any real job, especially if you get to pretend shit like copyright doesn’t exist.
In today’s era of software development it’s basically unthinkable to have a month-long outage for any reason. Any other website would have breathless, hyperconfident posts accusing it taking that long so the CIA could install a backdoor, 45k Likes, 22.4k Reposts.
November 15, 2026 at 3:15 PM
In today’s era of software development it’s basically unthinkable to have a month-long outage for any reason. Any other website would have breathless, hyperconfident posts accusing it taking that long so the CIA could install a backdoor, 45k Likes, 22.4k Reposts.
Husband called it: software update. And he believes they probably tested it with AI instead of software engineers.
Ai is often used in development. But people must test it.
Ai is often used in development. But people must test it.
November 13, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Husband called it: software update. And he believes they probably tested it with AI instead of software engineers.
Ai is often used in development. But people must test it.
Ai is often used in development. But people must test it.
i think it's really fuckin cool that there are the beginnings of principled no-LLM movements in software development. it's the first ray of hope i've felt in a long time
November 14, 2026 at 4:19 PM
i think it's really fuckin cool that there are the beginnings of principled no-LLM movements in software development. it's the first ray of hope i've felt in a long time