GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier"
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We've got studies that show AI makes you feel more productive while you're actually less productive. And all you're offering is a feeling you feel. Get high on your own supply if you want, but don't drag down good companies with your evangelism.
I'm curious about these studies. Do you have a citation?
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Honestly if part of their job is at all trying to get old shit to run on new operating systems AI is very useful for that task.
Part of my job is keeping a 30 year old c++ application compiling and building on newer versions of Linux. LLMs have made this a far easier experience.
I don't want to say you're totally wrong, but I am skeptical of the benefit. Sure, maybe it works now, which is cool, but is it making changes that are maintainable? The next time someone does this is it going to work? If we just constantly have LLMs update code, when does it start breaking, and when it does is it going to be in a state someone can fix?
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There you go, predictably making more baseless claims. If these things are supposedly so great, prove it.
And how did you hallucinate a misspelling in my comment? Maybe take a break from Elon's CSAM bot for a while.
Because I typed it.
I don't need to prove anything, but mostly, your issue seems to be that you think a shitty in-painting image model has anything to do with the usefulness of something like Github Co-Pilot.
If you don't understand something it's ok not to have the edgy opinion on it by default.
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Copilot business subscriptions have fairly granular usage tracking, so they'd probably just replace you right away with someone who isn't quite so reserved. Looking at the comments here and in other places, there is certainly no shortage of such people.
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I'm curious about these studies. Do you have a citation?
Probably referencing this:
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/ -
Job Requirements:
Active use of AI tools in daily development workflows, and enthusiasm for helping the team increase adoption
Nice to have:
Passion for games and game preservation
AI Mandatory, game preservation optional. Glad they got their priorities straight
It’s kind of the new loyalty test you have to pass for companies nowadays to get a dev job.
“Oh yeah I love AI and want to be replaced by robots. Spank me harder daddy”.
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I don't want to say you're totally wrong, but I am skeptical of the benefit. Sure, maybe it works now, which is cool, but is it making changes that are maintainable? The next time someone does this is it going to work? If we just constantly have LLMs update code, when does it start breaking, and when it does is it going to be in a state someone can fix?
Im not generally making source code changes. It's the dependencies.
Mainly we're talking about building very old versions of things like libpng. Making things like autoconf and configure and cmake all work is a pain in the ass as their versions slowly change.
The business would be content to let it run on Ubuntu 12 until it's a major problem so I can't let the perfect be the enemy of good.
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Hey Steven, how do you think they make those models?
(As if you genuinely believe those are the ones GOG is using.)
So you agree those models have already been made, and running them no longer require 50 exawatts of power, right?
Not sure why you decide to change the context to training the models instead of running it like the other guy was claiming.(As if you genuinely believe those are the ones GOG is using.)
I thought the context was changed to general use of LLM as a tool for programmers, not specifically about GOG? Can't even double check it now because the mod removed the comment for some reason.
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Im not generally making source code changes. It's the dependencies.
Mainly we're talking about building very old versions of things like libpng. Making things like autoconf and configure and cmake all work is a pain in the ass as their versions slowly change.
The business would be content to let it run on Ubuntu 12 until it's a major problem so I can't let the perfect be the enemy of good.
Fair enough. Probably a good use case for it. I've found it's pretty reliable at creating boilerplate. I just wouldn't trust it for doing anything important.
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Copilot business subscriptions have fairly granular usage tracking, so they'd probably just replace you right away with someone who isn't quite so reserved. Looking at the comments here and in other places, there is certainly no shortage of such people.
Wow that's pathetic. You can just smell the desperation to turn a profit, they baked their agita right into their dashboard. And it's quite the dark pattern too, in showing the administrator adoption rates, it singles out the team with the lowest adoption for harassment.
Welp, there's still value in fucking with them I suppose. Send Copilot a "write me an email with no intent to send" request every so often, and you can bump your numbers up.
