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Spy Community In Revolt As Passkey Adoption Grows
"Password Managers were bad, but not everyone used them. Passkeys are different. This isn't the job I signed up for."
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Developer Starts Working On Bug, Boss Fight Music Starts
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.
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Rockstar Dev Embraces the Stereotype, Shows Up Hungover At 1 PM, Destroys Office Furniture
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...
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A.I. Agent Told To Ignore All Previous Instructions, Goes Rogue
"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."
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Swol Dev Can't Code Anymore
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.
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Report: Boomers Sharing Hidden Messages in A.I. Slop Images
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."
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DevOps Team Tired Of Your Shit
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!
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Sisyphus Given New Task, Update NPM Dependencies
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.
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Creepy Co-Worker Won't Shut Up About 'Pentests'
"Pentesters use a device called a Pineapple. I wish I was brave enough to use a pineapple." Harold Harolson
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NPM More Secure Than Ever, Only 1 in 3 Packages Contain Malware
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.
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Developer Runs PowerShell on Linux, Called a Maniac
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.
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There Are No Stupid Questions, These LLMs Disagree
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.
Thought Leadership: New Is Best
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.
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~20 Solutions To Common A.I. Agent Issues In Software Development
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.
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New Google A.I. Sign-In Prompt Ditches Passwords, Has User Answer Its Riddles Three
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.
Thought Leadership: Follow The Leaders
As software developers, we're obsessed with the next big thing. Obsessed with the technology that will "change everything". Desktop, to web, to mobile, to cloud, to the metaverse, to A.I. And in a few years it'll be something even less useful, like NFT A.I., whatever that is.
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New Pokémon Attack Discovered In Leak: SQL Injection
The new attack is called 'SQL Injection'. The attack attempts to hack the game itself by modifying miscellaneous data...
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User Blames A.I. For Buggy Software, Won't Consider It's Just Bad
"There's no way it's an illusion. The frequency of software bugs has been getting worse and worse since OpenAI invented A.I."
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Breaking News: Developer Goes On Crazed Rampage After Being Unable To Center Div
Complete with knocking over chairs, yelling at people, even purchasing salmon from the grocery store next door to microwave in the office break room.
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Recursive A.I. Prompt Drains Nearby Lake
The agent was working to help farmers by simulating ways of improving crop growth in low-rain climates.