I did find it quite weird that the most powerful stage for Digimon was often just a man. Always felt like the, uh, cartoonist(?) had a bit of a superiority complex. Like, what’s more powerful than an iron t-rex? An iron man, of course.

Although, thinking now, there was something about them merging with their humans. Was that just what that last stage is? Then I guess, I would allow it as some dramatic thingamabob.

You’re right that there is a risk, that rebasing introduces compile errors or even subtle breakages. The thing is, version control works best, if you keep the number of different versions to a minimum. That means merging back as soon as possible. And rebases simultaneously help with that, but also definitely work best when doing that.

There may be reasons why you cannot merge back quickly, typically organizational reasons why your devs can’t establish close-knit communication to avoid conflicts that way, or just not enough automation in testing. In that case, merges may be the right choice.
But I will always encourage folks to merge back as soon as possible, and if you can bring down the lifetime of feature branches (or ideally eliminate them entirely), then rebases are unlikely to introduces unintended changes and speed you up quite a bit.

I don’t work with merges, so maybe I’m way off base, but I thought they meant, they’re working on another branch or fork, then merging the base branch into theirs every so often to get the newest changes, and then that creates multiple merge commits, which they can’t squash at the end…?

I’m not sure, about that last part, but the rest, I’ve definitely seen with contributors that didn’t know to work with rebases (and unfortunately we’re on GitHub, which only half-assedly supports working with rebases by default).

Hmm, well, thanks for throwing that tidbit in either way. I’m certainly not deep into that whole artform, so probably just saw big eyes + cat ears and that was the end of my thought process. 🫠

You might prefer working with rebases + fast-forward-only merges, if you want merge commits to be squashed…

(As in, there won’t be any merge commits. Your PR will look as if you forked, then coded real fast, and then opened the PR before anyone else pushed anything.)

Well, the advantage back then was that far fewer cars were on the road…

Every so often, I’ll listen to this song, because it’s just piano + ambient sounds of public transport, and that takes me back to when I used to regularly take the train.

This one: https://open.audio/library/tracks/434296/

Wouldn’t particularly recommend it, though. 😅
You can tell that it’s an instrumental track with the vocals missing.

Here’s the song with vocals: https://www.joshwoodward.com/song/SymmetryandthePocketofAngels

I certainly like other songs from the guy better, though…

Yeah, the big thing is that management has no sense how little coding you actually do in a software engineering role. You spend so much more time understanding requirements, understanding how you can resolve roadblocks within your organization and understanding what the hell the code does that was previously written.

In particular, the last part is something that will most definitely take longer for vibecoded programs.
The code is often needlessly complex, because:

• folks throw in additional features with no restraint,
• the AI will gladly generate a second implementation for stuff, you already solved in the codebase, and
• AI-generated code tends to just be noisy, because you need rigorous logical reasoning to find the most minimal solution.

But you also just don’t have human beings that made all the detail decisions and can tell you why they’re important. In vibecoded code, all of these detail decisions are accidental and only ‘proven’ in so far as the given accidental state that the code is in, happens to not explode in reality. If you need to tweak anything about it, you’re completely blind as to what’s actually important and what’s just in there, because the AI figured, it’s the most likely thing to autocomplete there.

It’s just a silly anime girl showing up on first page load. If you’re deathly afraid of seeming unprofessional, that’s gonna do your head in…

I mean, even then, they could increase the price per token, if they want to hand out fewer tokens for the price paid.

They could make this work like a prepaid SIM card, where you charge it with e.g. $10 and then you can use it until the $10 are used up.
Instead, they make it work like in-game currencies in scammy free-to-play games. Except that they didn’t choose a confusing conversion rate, for some reason…

Was wondering, if female Canada geese look different from males,and apparently they’re just slightly smaller, but Wikipedia has some excellent info nonetheless:

The honk refers to the call of the male Canada goose, whilst the hrink call refers to the female goose. The calls are similar but the hrink is shorter and higher pitched than the honk of males.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_goose#Description

Yeah, I imagine that they did try. But it’s not just the intentionally misleading announcement post, they also have 5(?) different subscription tiers, which get different changes from this. And one of the subscription tiers is actually called “Pro+”, so that does not mean “Pro and more expensive tiers” like I wondered. And they have this ridiculous intermediate currency to make things even more confusing.

Their offering itself is overly complex and confusing…

This image showed up in my feed as pure black and I thought that’s the shitpost, that it’s just all censored. 🫠

Man, they couldn’t have communicated this more confusingly, if they tried.

Which is a crime, by the way, when you sell it together with a product you hold a monopoly for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce)

So, did they use AI tools to type “LGTM” 400 times or nah?

But yeah, I also find that frustrating. Management just looks at terrible metrics like PRs closed or lines of code produced.
It’s not even novel that you can produce terrible code very quickly. Decades ago, our industry learned that it isn’t worth it, because you suffer for it later. Now the game is altered slightly and management demands that we throw all these learnings out the window.

Well, base prices stay the same. They seem to just be billing more per usage on top of that…