Yet another paywalled article and there is nothing of substance to actually discuss here. Someone has an opinion, who, god knows, subscribe to find out. I am done with this site.

This whole thing is like wondering, does a higher level programming language increase productivity? The answer, of course, is that the question is flawed and much too imprecise to mean a damn thing. What did we gain from compliers? Interpreters? Were they generically "good" or "bad". Stupid questions that are a waste of time when put with such purposeful imprecision.

Again, I still love them! I wish it wasn't an uphill battle to use it on Cloud services now.

Yes, please. Keep using "Vibe Coding" as if it means use of LLM for coding in all circumstances. Those of us who know better will be happy to crush the rest of you.

Reapeth my fucking cock up your ass

This is not a Troll. It is the most relevant comment here.

The Witch is dead.. Really?? No one posted this??

Yeah, wow that is a scary smart exploit there! Exactly what I was going to say.

They found it. The only reason we didn't catch it, in hindsight is that while we were very much aware of things like SQL injection, we didn't have a regular pattern of checking for it and one line of code, from a contractor, was it. This was back in 2005 though, no way it hell it would happen now.

A bluetooth connection can interface with the app, with no need for Cloud. Like others have said, malicious engineering.

Work on Magento for five minutes. PHP trying to be JAVA and just making a mess of it. I have always DEEPLY hated PHP. Its origins were far from professional, SSIs and hacks to make web page counters. I am more than happy to see it going away. I know all of the complaints about Javascript/Node, but frankly it is far better. Types are incredibly overrated, but I wish TS wasn't just window dressing as well. Like a mode instead of a bullshit build layer. Everything is flawed, except geek languages that have very limited use in practice. I guess GO is the new LISP in that regard. Maybe GO has a chance of being more, but I haven't seen that happen yet. Now we have to deal with whatever horror OpenAI is going to inflict on the web with its new browser and we will fragment again like the days of IE6. Frankly I am kind of sick of all of it and I wish web development could actually progress in some way besides just rolling out framework after framework trying to patch up or opinionate the "right" way to do things. The one bit of progress now is AI related, the fact that I can say fuck off to every single CSS layer, it is much easier to build pure CSS with AI and debug that directly instead of having to remember yet another mapping of CSS aka Tailwind which is still somehow got these days. That is my main hatred of node/TS, is that I have to BUILD it, still. Can we not get away from the days of putting in the compile floppy disk to test my code? But TS is still handy for API and DB object mapping, so even though it can't really enforce anything at runtime, it isn't totally useless, just way more useless than an actual type system for Javascript. So my conclusion, FUCK PHP, but fuck many other things too. I am old and grumpy :) Oh yeah and I didn't mention Python, fuck that too and its not being able to figure out its version transition for years. Glad that is finally over.

Can I trust Chrome on Linux OS of the day will validate the code I need to run on Windows and Mac? Can I use VScode and not have bugs killing my time that no one can support? Just looking at these things for 5 minutes makes me think I could be killing a lot of time over saving a few bucks on a new computer I probably could use anyway after like 7 years.

It seems to me this is one of a very few, actually on topic posts here :) Thanks.

From what I have read that is one of the key issues that has held Japan back, its sick corporate culture, which includes this kind of nonsense. The stories are interesting with people slacking during much of the day, then looking all busy and serious after 6pm.

In order to get good work from Claude Code (honestly screw the rest) you have to instruct it, very carefully. I take days to make an outline of a major project before I can even let it do one thing, then I take things in very small pieces and I explain that to Claude Code as well. Checklist after checklist. I get things done REALLY fast and I don't have the kind of issues that seem to be all over the place, like in this pathetic article. I find ChatGPT goes nuts half the time I ask it things, it gave me deprecated APIs in instructions for Klaviyo and Facebook, like REALLY deprecated stuff. You often get to see how good or bad an API's docs are by how badly AIs screw things up. I constantly ask them to give me coding references/links and it is not uncommon to get back, oh sorry, I made that up. I save insane amounts of time just by asking that question fairly often. BUT, I still can go faster than I ever have before and making really good quality work, all of which I understand because I take the time to make sure I do, before I move on to another step. Honestly what is so hard about this? I think that definition of "Senior" needs some vetting in these articles in the future.