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Shipping Velocity
AI Devops Agile Git Programming
6 days ago 207.7K views 2 shares
Shipping Velocity
So we've reached the point where companies are firing devs for not churning out enough PRs and not letting AI write their code. Because nothing says "quality software" like optimizing for quantity and letting a chatbot do your thinking. The absolute state of the industry right now: management discovered they can measure developer productivity by counting PRs like they're widgets on an assembly line. Nevermind that one well-architected PR could be worth fifty AI-generated spaghetti commits. And the "not using enough AI" part? Chef's kiss. Imagine getting fired because you had the audacity to actually understand the code you're writing instead of copy-pasting from ChatGPT. Next up: "Developer fired for thinking too much and not accepting Copilot suggestions fast enough." The future is here, and it's depressingly stupid.

Bob Did Not Approve This Message
Programming Agile Frontend Backend
7 days ago 277.0K views 1 shares
Bob Did Not Approve This Message
The eternal triangle of pain: Prospect wants features, Sales promises Bob can build it in 3 weeks, and Engineer knows it'll take months. Sales throws Bob under the bus without even asking him, because apparently Bob is some kind of code wizard who can violate the laws of software development physics. Engineer tries to inject reality into the conversation with "actually, it'll take a couple of months," but Sales just doubles down with "but for YOU, we'll do it in 3 weeks!" Engineer's final "SHUT UP!" is every developer who's ever had their timeline volunteered by someone who thinks coding is just typing really fast. Poor Bob is probably in the back actually doing his job, completely unaware he's been committed to an impossible deadline. Fun fact: This is why engineers develop trust issues and start padding estimates by 300%.

Reminder That Star Citizen Has Been In Development For This Long
Gamedev Agile Programming
16 days ago 231.8K views 0 shares
Reminder That Star Citizen Has Been In Development For This Long
Star Citizen started development in 2011. The interviewer on the left has aged visibly. The developer on the right? Still smiling like the release date is "just around the corner." At this point, Star Citizen is less of a game and more of a generational project—like cathedrals in medieval times, except with more microtransactions for spaceship JPEGs. The game has been in development so long that entire programming languages have been born, peaked, and fallen out of favor. Developers who started on this project fresh out of college now have teenagers. The codebase probably has comments like "TODO: fix before launch" from 2013 that have achieved artifact status. It's the software equivalent of scope creep achieving sentience. Every sprint planning meeting probably ends with "just one more feature" while the backlog grows like technical debt in a startup that just raised Series B.

Just Try It
Agile Git Programming
1 month ago 245.6K views 0 shares
Just Try It
When your CEO discovers markdown files and suddenly thinks documentation will solve all your communication problems. "Productivity 10x'd immediately" - yeah, because nothing says productivity boost like everyone frantically updating a COWORKERS.md file instead of just... you know... talking. The real joke here is thinking a single markdown file will magically transform workplace culture. We've all seen this play out: Week 1, everyone's excited and updating the doc. Week 2, it's outdated. Week 3, nobody remembers it exists. Week 4, someone creates a COWORKERS_v2.md because the first one got too messy. But hey, at least they can version control their social awkwardness now. Git blame will have a whole new meaning when you need to figure out who added "Jim talks too loud during standup" to the repo.

State Of Software Development In 2025
AI Agile Programming Debugging
3 months ago 491.4K views 1 shares
State Of Software Development In 2025
Oh, you sweet summer child suggesting we fix existing bugs? How DARE you bring logic and reason to a product meeting! While the backlog is literally screaming for attention with 10,000 unresolved issues, management is out here chasing every shiny buzzword like it's Pokémon GO all over again. "Blockchain! AI! Web3! Metaverse!" Meanwhile, Production is on fire, users can't log in, and Karen from accounting still can't export that CSV file—but sure, let's pivot to implementing blockchain in our to-do list app because some CEO read a Medium article. The poor developer suggesting bug fixes got defenestrated faster than you can say "technical debt." Because why would we invest in boring things like stability, performance, or user satisfaction when we could slap "AI-powered" on everything and watch the investors throw money at us? Who needs a functioning product when you have a killer pitch deck, am I right?

That Is What Every Developer's Story
Programming Devops Agile
3 months ago 194.9K views 4 shares
That Is What Every Developer's Story
When your manager asks for "whatever you managed to finish," you know they've already accepted defeat. The bar is so low it's practically underground. The guy coding on a literal office chair strapped to a rickety cart in the middle of traffic is basically every developer trying to ship features with zero resources, impossible deadlines, and a tech stack held together by duct tape and prayer. The infrastructure is falling apart, there's no proper setup, but hey—at least you're moving forward, right? Peak project management: lowering expectations so much that simply surviving the sprint counts as a win. Ship it and pray the production servers don't catch fire. 🔥

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When "Aggressive Deadlines" Take On A Whole New Meaning
Programming Agile Gamedev
11 months ago 258.7K views 0 shares
When "Aggressive Deadlines" Take On A Whole New Meaning
OH MY ACTUAL GOD! When someone said "find developers who work under pressure," this was NOT what they meant! These monsters literally kidnapped a programmer and forced him to code a gambling app while being TORTURED. Talk about the world's worst agile standup! "What's blocking you today?" "WELL, THE ACTUAL CHAINS, BRAD." 💀 This is startup culture gone completely feral—when "we need this shipped yesterday" becomes a literal hostage situation. The ultimate "client from hell" scenario that makes your micromanaging boss look like a saint!