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Vibe Coders

10 minutes ago 1.9K views 0 shares

Day 1 of "vibe coding" and you've already hit a database constraint error. Trying to insert age 17 but getting that beautiful "User with this age already exists" message because someone thought making age a unique key was a galaxy brain move. Either their database schema was designed by someone who thinks every 17-year-old is the same person, or they're using age as a primary key instead of, you know, an actual unique identifier like a UUID or auto-incrementing ID. The real crime here isn't the error—it's the database design that allowed this to happen in the first place. Somewhere, a senior dev is crying into their coffee.

I Mean...

Linux Security MacOS Apple Microsoft

35 minutes ago 7.1K views 0 shares

Microsoft out here trying to defend telemetry while Google's like "yeah but I only track your browsing history, search queries, location, emails, and literally everything you do online." Apple's playing the privacy card while still collecting data, just with better PR. And then there's Linux—the only one genuinely confused why anyone would even want to spy on users. The beauty here is that Linux is the kid at the party who doesn't understand why everyone else is being shady. Open source transparency hits different when you realize you can literally read the code and see there's no telemetry nonsense baked in. Meanwhile, the big three are just arguing over who's less invasive, which is like debating who's the tallest dwarf.

Who Of You Tested In Prod

Testing Devops Programming Debugging Backend

2 hours ago 29.0K views 0 shares

Someone at Xbox just sent a test notification to millions of users via Braze. The notification literally says "this is a dummy message" and asks people to screenshot it. You know what happened next? Millions of screenshots and a whole lot of explaining to management. Nothing says "oops" quite like your internal test message becoming a global notification. Somewhere, a developer is updating their resume while their manager is updating the incident report. The best part? They politely asked users to capture evidence of their mistake. Remember kids: staging environments exist for a reason. Though let's be real, we all know production is just staging with better uptime monitoring.

Dawaj Dawaj Deploy To Prod

Devops Agile Programming Backend

2 hours ago 34.3K views 0 shares

Domain-Driven Design? Nah, too much thinking about bounded contexts and aggregates. But "Dawaj Dawaj Deploy to Prod"? Now we're talking. Nothing says confidence like yeeting code straight to production with the energy of someone who's already mentally checked out for the weekend. "Dawaj" is Polish/Russian slang for "come on, let's go!" - basically the battle cry of every developer who's decided that staging environments are just suggestions and rollback plans are for cowards. Who needs careful architectural planning when you can just push and pray? The Drake meme format captures that beautiful moment when you realize spending weeks planning your architecture is way less fun than living dangerously. Your future self dealing with the incident at 3 AM? That's a problem for future you.

Can't Wait For Bubble Burst

AI Programming

4 hours ago 56.9K views 0 shares

You know the AI bubble has officially jumped the shark when companies are hiring robots over actual humans. The rejection email is bad enough, but finding out you lost the job to something that can't even pass a CAPTCHA? That stings differently. Every tech company right now is slapping "AI-powered" on everything like it's some magic solution, replacing their entire workforce with chatbots that hallucinate half their responses. Sure, the AI can write code... but can it survive a 3-hour standup meeting about sprint velocity? Can it pretend to care about the company pizza party? Didn't think so. The real kicker is when this bubble pops and companies realize their AI "senior developer" has been confidently writing bugs for six months straight. But hey, at least it doesn't ask for equity or complain about work-life balance.

Skill Will Surely Help

AI Git Programming Debugging

6 hours ago 72.7K views 0 shares

Nothing says "we value craftsmanship" quite like a file named SKILL.md that exists solely to clean up after AI's inability to write coherent code. The crying cat really drives home that special feeling when your entire skill set has been reduced to being a janitor for a language model that writes code like it's having a stroke. At least they're honest about it being in the skills directory—apparently debugging AI hallucinations is now a core competency.

Good Vibe Plan

AI Programming

6 hours ago 80.6K views 1 shares

Corporate masterminds really thought they cracked the code: fire the juniors who actually need training, replace senior devs with AI that hallucinates code like it's on a bad trip, and then act SHOCKED when 20 years later there's nobody left to hire because—plot twist—everyone either retired or rage-quit to become goat farmers. The sheer GENIUS of creating your own talent apocalypse by refusing to invest in the next generation while simultaneously thinking ChatGPT can architect your entire infrastructure. Chef's kiss to this self-inflicted dystopia! 💀

SQL Query Walks Into A Bar

Databases Programming Backend

11 hours ago 131.7K views 0 shares

A classic dad joke meets database terminology. The punchline is literally just the SQL JOIN operation dressed up in a bar scenario. It's the kind of joke that makes you groan and chuckle simultaneously – perfect for breaking the ice at tech meetups or making your non-technical friends question your sense of humor. The beauty here is in the simplicity: two tables, one query, and the most fundamental relationship operation in relational databases. Your DBA probably has this printed on their coffee mug.

Max Autotune Prune Choices Based On Shared Mem Flag Wasn't As Groundbreaking As It Was Promised To Be

AI Programming Python Debugging Backend

12 hours ago 144.3K views 0 shares

Max Autotune Prune Choices Based On Shared Mem Flag Wasn't As Groundbreaking As It Was Promised To Be

You've enabled every optimization flag known to humanity. CUDA kernels? Optimized. Batch sizes? Tuned. Mixed precision? Obviously. You've read the entire PyTorch performance guide twice, set torch.backends.cudnn.benchmark=True , and even sacrificed a USB drive to the machine learning gods. Your training loop still moves like it's running on a Pentium II from 1997. Turns out all those fancy optimization techniques that promised "up to 10x speedup" in the blog posts were tested on datasets that fit in a teacup and hardware that costs more than a small car. The real bottleneck? Your data loader was single-threaded the whole time. Classic.

Missed My Chance :(

AI Programming

13 hours ago 158.4K views 0 shares

Imagine being a literal NEWBORN in 1998 and having the AUDACITY to just... exist peacefully instead of immediately bootstrapping the entire AI revolution. Like, you couldn't even hold your head up but somehow you were supposed to be coding neural networks and training GPT models? The regret is PALPABLE. Now everyone's making bank with AI startups while you were busy learning to walk and eat solid foods like some kind of amateur. Priorities, right? Should've skipped the whole "childhood" phase and gone straight to Silicon Valley disruption. Talk about a missed opportunity – you had a 25-year head start and you BLEW IT by being an infant. Tragic, really.

30 Years Later - Basically The Same

Security Windows

14 hours ago 169.6K views 0 shares

The legendary Amish virus from 1996 relied on social engineering to get users to manually delete their own files and spread the "virus" via email. Fast forward to 2026, and we've got sleek verification dialogs asking users to press Windows Button + R, then CTRL + V, then Enter. Spoiler alert: that's probably pasting some malicious command into the Run dialog. Different decade, same psychological exploit—just with better UI design now. We went from floppy disks to cloud infrastructure, from dial-up to fiber optics, from 64MB RAM to 64GB RAM... yet humans remain the most exploitable vulnerability in any system. No patch available, no CVE number assigned, just eternal gullibility. The attack vectors evolved from "delete System32" chain emails to fake CAPTCHA verifications, but the core exploit? Still targeting wetware, not hardware.

No I Did Not Get The Job

Algorithms Programming

16 hours ago 185.8K views 0 shares

You walk into the interview feeling confident, solve the coding challenge with some clever logic, maybe even optimize it a bit. Then the interviewer hits you with "Why didn't you just use a hashmap?" and suddenly you're questioning your entire existence as a developer. The brutal reality is that interviewers have THE solution in mind, and if you don't immediately jump to their preferred data structure, you're cooked. Doesn't matter if your solution works or is even elegant—if it's not a hashmap when they wanted a hashmap, you're getting the rejection email faster than O(1) lookup time. Pro tip: When in doubt during coding interviews, just throw a hashmap at the problem. Two-sum? Hashmap. Anagrams? Hashmap. Finding duplicates? Believe it or not, also hashmap. It's basically the duct tape of data structures in technical interviews.

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