Things that irritate you - Part 4

movies where the victim is running away full speed and the guy with the knife just walks after them and always gets them in the end
 
AI. Go onto Spotify and I get gangbanged by "bands" that didn't exist before 2024 and "released" 8 albums between January and now.
Go watch a video on YouTube and halfway through the guy start speaking about "THE ms-dos" as if it was a console (AI giveaway).
Drop into a group chat and some members don't even respond, they just paste chatgpt replies to questions.
Click on links in myBB and it is poorly written AI articles.
"Guys" and "Gals" on forums who are clearly spam bots.

****it. I'm too old for this ****.

Ps. My "AI" phone corrected "****it" as furniture and wanted to make it Fujitsu when I placed it in quotes just now.
Broken world.
 
MisterFiftySomething said:
AI. Go onto Spotify and I get gangbanged by "bands" that didn't exist before 2024 and "released" 8 albums between January and now.
Go watch a video on YouTube and halfway through the guy start speaking about "THE ms-dos" as if it was a console (AI giveaway).
Drop into a group chat and some members don't even respond, they just paste chatgpt replies to questions.
Click on links in myBB and it is poorly written AI articles.
"Guys" and "Gals" on forums who are clearly spam bots.

****it. I'm too old for this ****.

Ps. My "AI" phone corrected "****it" as furniture and wanted to make it Fujitsu when I placed it in quotes just now.
Broken world.
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Not sure that's Spotify. You must have been at stardust/zeppelin or hillbrow
 
Emfuleni Municipality. Their website reminds me of all those fly-by-night solar installers a few years ago. Their website is there but every number or contact detail is useless.
 
I have a gecko that has not being paying rent in my flat for over a year now. I hear him mock me with his "shnuh shnuh" sounds every night but hides behind every piece of furniture like a ninja. I appreciate he takes care of the little critters but also shits all over my walls and curtains. How long do geckos live?
 
AnimateX said:
I have a gecko that has not being paying rent in my flat for over a year now. I hear him mock me with his "shnuh shnuh" sounds every night but hides behind every piece of furniture like a ninja. I appreciate he takes care of the little critters but also shits all over my walls and curtains. How long do geckos live?
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They multiply... I had a lodger in my shower who would come out to see who was using the shower every morning...

Had to rehome him since I've started renovating the bathroom.
 
Solar assistant crashed again sigh, last backup was April :( cause I've been struggling to get it to back up.
Sigh my laziness for not sorting it out sooner.
 
movies where the person is holding a pump action shot gun and just when they are starting to shoot the first round - they pump it and it expels an unused cartridge
 
icantchooseone said:
movies where the victim is running away full speed and the guy with the knife just walks after them and always gets them in the end
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Aktchually...I've seen this trope delved into.

In the one video I saw, they gave people a set of keys and told them to run to the end of a corridor and unlock a door while someone carrying a knife pursued them at walking pace. Almost all of them fumbled the unlocking of the door and were ''caught''.

Also, many real videos of people slipping and falling while trying to get away from an animal or someone chasing them. It happens. Fear, stress, panic, loss of spatial awareness, fixated on your pursuer and not on where you are running. Extreme stress will also quickly tire you out, so running around panicking, screaming and tripping over stuff uses up a lot of energy, and the guy steadily walking behind you will eventually catch you.

Then specific to the person chasing a victim in a movie, which is usually in a horror setting, they are relentless, aware of their surroundings and soley focused on catching the victim. Some good examples here are Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees. Michael is practically a supernatural entity and Jason is undead. Michael isn't bound by physics while Jason will never, ever tire. Someone in a panic and not knowing where to go is easy meat for them.
 
The_MAC said:
People using Co-Pilot to draft their mails and chats - now I have to use Co-Pilot to summarise their bloated verbiage...

Plus, all of a sudden everyone sounds like they went to Oxford..

Back in the day, it was a skill to be able to communicate effectively, now it's become a commodity - but you can weed them out when it's face to face, you can't hide forever ;)
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That's where it starts, but the next step is what I call meat puppets. They'll use AI to search for an answer and just paste a screenshot of that as e.g. a forum post here.

Or a junior developer will have the AI summarize what the AI did, then you as a senior have to read it, figure out if it actually did what it was supposed to do while the junior does nothing themselves.
 
animal531 said:
That's where it starts, but the next step is what I call meat puppets. They'll use AI to search for an answer and just paste a screenshot of that as e.g. a forum post here.

Or a junior developer will have the AI summarize what the AI did, then you as a senior have to read it, figure out if it actually did what it was supposed to do while the junior does nothing themselves.
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That dynamic is a massive bottleneck, but it is incredibly common in modern software teams. When a junior developer relies entirely on an AI to write code and summarize its own work, you are no longer reviewing human engineering; you are auditing an unverified AI output through a passive intermediary. [1, 2]
To break this loop and save your time as a senior developer, you need to shift the burden of proof back to the junior.

The Core Problem​


  • Zero Ownership: The junior is acting as a "copy-paste router" rather than an engineer.
  • Blind Spots: The AI's summary of its own work will always sound confident, even if it hallucinated edge cases or introduced security flaws.
  • No Growth: The junior is not building the mental models required to debug code when the AI inevitably fails. [3, 4, 5, 6]

How to Handle the PR Review​

Do not merge code based on an AI summary. Force the junior to validate the work by implementing strict submission requirements: [7]

  • Demand a Verification Plan: Reject any Pull Request (PR) that lacks evidence of manual or automated testing.
  • Proof of Execution: The junior must provide terminal outputs, console logs, or screenshots showing the code working in a local environment.
  • Code Tour: If the summary looks questionable, call a brief sync. Have the junior explain the logic line-by-line. If they cannot explain why a specific function or library was used, send the PR back.

Automation as Your Shield​

Instead of wasting your senior-level cognitive load checking basic functionality, let your pipeline do the heavy lifting:

  • Enforce Strict Linting & Formatting: Ensure tools like Prettier, ESLint, or Black reject poorly structured AI code before you ever see it.
  • Mandatory Test Coverage: Configure your CI/CD pipeline to block PRs that do not hit a specific test coverage threshold. If the AI writes code, the junior must ensure tests are written and passing. [8, 9]
  • Static Analysis: Use tools like SonarQube or Snyk to automatically flag security risks and technical debt. [10, 11]

Pivot the Junior's Workflow​

Reframe how the junior uses AI so they are forced to engage with the code: [12]

  • The "Explain to Me" Method: Instruct the junior to ask the AI to explain the architecture or logic, rather than just generating code blocks. [13, 14]
  • Write Tests First: Have the junior use AI to generate test cases based on user stories, then write or guide the code to pass those tests. [15, 16, 17]
  • Document Constraints: Require the junior to list the limitations of the AI's approach in the PR description.
To help tailor a strategy for your specific team, let me know:

  • Your tech stack and whether you have an active CI/CD pipeline
  • The average size of these PRs (e.g., small bug fixes or entire features)
  • Whether you want a PR template designed to force accountability from developers using generative AI
I can provide concrete templates or automated testing workflows to reduce your review time.
 
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