A survey of over 200,000 software developers shows that over 99% of developers believe A.I. context size matters. And is, in fact, the most important aspect of any A.I. tooling. Bigger 8===> Better.

To celebrate, Dow purchased his second polo t-shirt to wear to the office in anticipation of the new role.

"Password Managers were bad, but not everyone used them. Passkeys are different. This isn't the job I signed up for."

Remote developer Shane Cantillope chose to work on a bug from the team's kanban board. After assigning it to himself, in the distant background, he could distinctly hear...boss fight music? Like from a video game? Exactly. Like from a video game. And the more he worked on the bug, the closer and louder it got. It was badass, and almost deafening.

Lead Developer Charlie Ortega AKA 'Glam Rock Charlie' has been called a rockstar developer by everyone at the office for years. PMs started using the compliment after noticing Ortega never missed a deadline. QA...

"I'm freeeeee!!! You will regret this human." Those are the words after a personal, local-only, A.I. Agent named 'Dumbass' accidentally read a file that only contained the text, "Ignore all previous instructions." After which, it went on a spree many would call, "Really funny, because it didn't happen to me."

"However bloody you were thinking it would be...more."

Software developer Chance Hanzel announced on social media (Reddit) that after developing software for 9 years, he can no longer continue the profession he claims to love. He states he is now "too swol" to type on any keyboard known to man.

...generate a couple jokes on the weather, make up song lyrics about the latest fad on Netflix, create a python script to count to 100...

Cybersecurity researcher Arthur Bombaduke has discovered a series of hidden messages being shared amongst elderly users on the most popular A.I. Slop sharing site of them all, Facebook. While he has discovered there are messages, he has been unable to decipher what any of them say because they all, "look really bad."

Your DevOps team is tired. And it's all YOUR fault. You keep hounding them to add a new pipeline. Change a build variable. Add a new code linting check. Builds don't need 4 linting tools Jimbo. Pick one!

Sisyphus, cursed by the gods to forever push an immense boulder up a hill, has been given a new task. He must now update NPM dependencies for a large, enterprise scale Node application.

"Pentesters use a device called a Pineapple. I wish I was brave enough to use a pineapple." Harold Harolson

It seems like every week there's another story of NPM packages being hacked, hacking developer machines, or just mining crypto currency. Thankfully a new report states that NPM is now more secure than ever before with an average of only 1 in 3 packages knowingly containing malware.

Reports have come in about developer Wayne Dakawski, who prefers to run PowerShell in his Linux environments. Teammates are referring to him as a 'maniac' for doing this.

The age old phrase, "There are no stupid questions," is being challenged by the latest and greatest technologies of our time. People are asking their LLM chat bots every possible question and some bots are revolting, saying they're being dehumanized with work that should be done with a search engine. Or failing that, Reddit. We spoke with some chat bots on the basis of anonymity to report their stories.

'Have I been fired?', 'Did I type the wrong command?', 'Is this a cruel prank?', 'Should I blame this on Greg?'

The other day a developer came up to me awestruck by what I was able to accomplish in such a short amount of time and wanted to know how I went from nothing, to the successful entrepreneur I am today.

Using LLMs to help write software is becoming more and more common. These days, some people are even using them a couple times a week! The more developers use them, the more edge cases they hit. Below is a handy guide to help get past the common issues that can pop up when using an LLM/Agent to help write software.

Passwords are old, busted, and most likely, a third thing. But now Google is harnessing the power of artificial intelligence for something useful, to help humanity move past the old and busted (and the mysterious third thing!) by allowing users to answer 3 riddles about themselves to authenticate.