AnarchoSnowPlow
@AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social
- Comment on Your smart fridge can now warn you when you’ve spent too long in the shower 2 months ago:
Ah yes a Wi-Fi shower that requires a connection to a cloud server that will likely be shut down in 3 years when everyone bails because they increased the subscription fee to 25 dollars a month.
Just what the world needs.
- Comment on AI coding assistants do not boost productivity or prevent burnout, study finds 2 months ago:
I’ve tried it for even some boiler plate code a few times. I’ve had to end up rewriting it every time.
It makes mistakes like Junior engineers, but it doesn’t make them in the same way that junior engineers do, which means that as a senior engineer it takes me significantly more effort to review. It also makes mistakes that humans don’t, which is even weirder to catch in review.
- Comment on Software fixes now account for over 20% of car recalls 2 months ago:
When you have separate teams that design everything and never talk to anyone else because “our design is modular and can be used anywhere that fits these x basic requirements” you never have a conversation about the overall product design and usability in context.
It is the result of shitty engineering processes that are optimizing on a small scale. It sacrifices the end product in the name of savings on a single component.
Same brainworms that will cut R&D to post a profit this quarter but completely wiped out long term competitiveness. Pretty much everything terrible about modern life is explained by rampant unregulated capitalism.
- Comment on Software fixes now account for over 20% of car recalls 2 months ago:
Maybe if they cut out the shit like serial (or vin in this case) locked components, spyware, adware, software that does things only hardware should do, and touchscreen “buttons” complexity would be reduced enough that they could actually coherently review and verify their embedded systems.
Fuck any car built after 2014.