Software Development

A team of developers have realized they have very few tokens left in their accounts, and will be rationing them until the monthly refresh, which is after the sprint ends. In the mean time, the team is only working on Priority 0 items for any and all software development tasks. Be it code changes, unit test creation, documentation updates, pushing releases, issue creation, status reports, and even sending memes in Slack. Like most companies, every single one of those tasks are handled by developer A.I. agents.

Online therapist Dr. Samanji published a Reddit post asking developers to help her understand what an AngularJS is. She stated her client has some past trauma because of it, and seeks to understand how it can cause so many traumatic responses. Her client has mild-insomnia, hair loss, separation anxiety, and fear of cats. He screams at the sight of squirrels, but that's not related to the AngularJS debacle.

Coding agents like Claude, Codex, and Bob are improving their code output by better impersonating the humans whose jobs they will inevitably steal. For a step in the right direction, they will no longer consume ReadMe files found in projects.

During a sprint retrospective yesterday at 10 AM, developer Lester Kruge showed off a still in-development feature. The proof of concept was functional enough to demonstrate to the group. While showing the API features, he made the short comment, "It's ugly right now, but so is all my code. It'll get cleaned up later." Kruge was not prepared for the entire room to agree, loudly.

The jungles of Quebec, the mountains of Angola, the lakes of Moldova, and the desserts of Australia all have one thing in common. There are people who live there that love programming in Rust. These freaks of nature can't stand the Rust programming language.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"There's no way it's an illusion. The frequency of software bugs has been getting worse and worse since OpenAI invented A.I."

As professional software developers, it's useful to know how people work when using different technologies than us. If you don't normally work with C#, this interview with a typical C# developer will help introduce you to their daily lives. It's educational *and* informative.

Reports indicate the software SaaS company Pyrple has informed the office dog, Mr Ruffles, to skill up on A.I. software development or be let go from the company. No more free head pats from the team to celebrate a job well done, or all-you-can-eat doggie treats in the break room.

A.I. coding agents are already improving developer productivity to levels unseen in the history of software development. Developers are writing code 1.1x times as fast, and in some cases even 1.13x as fast. But what if coding agents could unlock an even more productive way of working? The developers at Anthropic have done that with a new mode for Claude Code.

The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) community has released an out of band update to their famous "Top 10" list of critical security risks. Each category title, like "Injection" or "Broken Access Control", is abstract to fit a wide range of risks, like how your code is one big risk.

There are many heated arguments software developers have amongst each other. *So. Many. Arguments.* Like feral cats, software developers will hiss, growl, or bare their teeth when in the midst of such an argument. One debate amongst them, developers not cats, is the difference between a UUID and a GUID. We spoke to some developers to understand the pros and cons of each so we could come to a final conclusion and save them from themselves.

Looksmaxxing, some new fad kids are doing to make themselves look better, has made its way into the software development industry. Jeffery Cook, Staff Developer at D'Amore Software LLC, has fallen for the fad his son has become so obsessed with.

Local developer Diego Cala is about to go into the office for a chill last day of the week. He usually works from home Friday, his one day a week. But the team decided this day is special. They'll all go to the new pizza restaurant across the street for lunch. It has one of those Coke machines with every flavor. They all hate those machines, but won't admit it. Diego is feeling good about today. It feels right. He's even on track to get in at 8:25 am because he didn't smack the snooze button. But Diego doesn't know just how bad the day will be.