Ergonomics? We Don't Do That Here

Content CHAK Busted! googling Fortran tutorial again No! I was playing Fortnite I swear

Content Project Manager: We're going to build a facial-recognition application. Programmer: OK Project Manager: People will put in a photo, and it will search a database for matching faces. Programmer: OK Project Manager: And while it's doing that, it should flash up, on screen, a slide show featuring hundreds of other random faces which definitely aren't a match No that's stupid we're not doing that. Programmer:

Content For those who's asking how its to be an I.T professional during the coronavirus outbreak. Do you remember when the Titanic was sinking and the band kept playing till the end? We are part of that band.

Content DON'T KNOW WHY WE CALL TA SPRINT WHEN IT'S ALL WE DO AND AT THIS POINT I'M TOO AFRAID TO ASK

That magical moment when your AI model gets a little too good at understanding context. Copilot just casually suggested "Dose nuts fit in your mouth?" as a logger message, which is either the most sophisticated deez nuts joke in programming history or proof that AI has been trained on way too much internet culture. The developer was probably just trying to log something about dosage or parameters, but the model said "nah fam, I know where this is going" and went full meme mode. Training data strikes again – somewhere in those billions of tokens, Copilot absorbed the entire history of juvenile internet humor and decided to weaponize it during a Phoenix framework session. 10/10 autocomplete, would accept suggestion.

Game developers and their release timelines have the same energy as "I'll start going to the gym on Monday" but Monday is actually 2043. Bethesda announces a new Fallout and you're like "cool, see you in the retirement home." Meanwhile Elder Scrolls VI was announced when dinosaurs still roamed the earth (2018) and we're still waiting. At this rate, by the time it drops, we'll be playing it in actual VR because our consciousness will be uploaded to the cloud. The development cycle is so long that the game's setting—a post-apocalyptic wasteland—might just become our reality before release. Todd Howard out here playing 4D chess with our patience, making us wait so long we forget what graphics looked like when the announcement trailer dropped.