Not sure on the size of your team, but you could perhaps form a small subset of AI “champions” who can try to help drive new initiatives. Just some ideas:

1. Start out with foundational usage of AI agents, ensure people have the right mindset and ownership of using the ai agents. Ensure there is always a “human in the loop.”

2. Arrange for some training for people (not just Devs) on the right way of using AI, such as not throwing sensitive information into it. Educate people that it’s far from perfect

3. Get standard boundaries in place for your current and future projects, get context files (agent.md) for your projects so those who do use the agents will be doing so from the best position.

4. See if you can arrange with the higher ups to arrange some company time do a Hackathon with the use of AI to help people see what they can do with it and the challenges they’ll face. You can also take some learnings from it.

The way I see it, you’ve been given the position of head of AI because you’re indifferent. It’s your job now to drive engagement (because that’s what your bosses want) but in a controlled manner. If they put someone that was overly enthusiastic about AI they would end up with a huge bill and lots of AI mess to clean up.

Machines cannot take responsibility for problems, which is why I feel containment barriers cannot be entirely AI.

Where I work AI is being pushed hard, but the company has made it their policy that there must be a human in the loop. Ownership of the code written by AI is down to the person using the AI. “Oops, don’t know why the AI wrote that!” Is not a valid answer to bugs being introduced into production.

I’m seeing senior engineers of 15+ years no longer writing code and churning out a ton more work. They are disappointed they don’t write code anymore but working with the AI is the job they have to do to be able to afford to live. They say the cognitive load has shot up for them, they are constantly spinning plates.

To make the plate spinning job easier they have implemented guard rails to ensure the agents don’t do anything stupid. I’m seeing a number of stories posted to Lemmy where the AI does dumb shit but the stories don’t apply any accountability to the developers using it.

Can’t be expecting the peasants to share in the success of their hard work! Better to fire them and rehire them for cheaper when they are desperate.

I recall someone at some point calling it cuckoding, that gave me a chuckle.

Windows can add some complications as a dev, especially in the corporate environment when really strict group policies are implemented that stop Devs from installing or configuring systems as they need.

One company I worked at remained on Windows LTSC for security reasons, and a lot of Devs that were working with Java hit a snag if for whatever reason an IDE they were using really wanted a system environment variable configured a certain way and it would straight up ignore user environment variables. They would be restricted from basically being able to configure anything without getting IT to remote on and make the changes for them.

I was forced to use a Mac for the first time years ago for work, I still hate working on a Mac but I can’t deny how much more flexible it can be compared to working in a Windows environment that is locked down.

StS came out in early access and was a solid game with quite a lot of placeholders. I suspect StS2 will be a much more polished experience compared to that, and Megacrit has the track record of the first title to give confidence.

Feels like they’ve added some physics to the game and this patch is a tech demo of it. Not complaining given it’s free!

Monster Train 2 if you like card games. It’s got a load of content and replay and they recently released a patch today to add more!

“Dragging energy costs down around the globe” - such a shame the end consumer in a UK household doesn’t see that reduction of costs in their bills.

Thanks, been looking into this and it seems there is Descenders and Descenders Next. The former is really well received but it seems Next is still quite a work in progress. The impression I get from the store page is Descenders only has mountain biking? Still looks great though.

I hate that Ubisoft have Steep and Riders Republic. Hands down my favourite snowboarding/skiing games that aren’t SSX.

I don’t suppose there are any better alternatives? I much prefer the arcade style over realism. It’s nice to be able to finish work and just freeride to unwind.

it is useful as a sort of better google, like for things that are documented but reading the documentation makes your head hurt so you can ask it to dumb it down to get the core concept and go from there

I agree with this point so much. I’m probably a real thicko, and being able to use it to explain concepts in a different way or provide analogies has been so helpful for my learning.

I hate the impact from use of AI, and I hope that we will see greater efficiencies in the near future so there is less resource consumption.

There are still excuses.

I love gaming on my Steam Deck, but I’m not ready to make that PC switch yet because I don’t have the time anymore to sit and fuck around trying to get a game to run.

Could this lead to future in-game accessories for said butthole?

Would that tinkering be patch Tuesdays once a month and having to click “not now” a few times? If so that is one of the reasons I want to get off the Windows ship!

I can’t stand having more “features” pushed on me that is very clearly not for my benefit.

I’m eager to move off Windows, I made a comment months ago saying I will switch when Linux is 100% compatible for gaming and got downvoted and told it’s ready, but checking the games I play on protondb they require tinkering. I have less time these days and don’t want to fuck around trying to get the games to run. The only tinkering I require in Windows at the moment is removing motion blur from games and increasing FoV, I don’t need to add command line arguments to get multiplayer in a game to partially function.

I got a Steam Deck 4 months ago in prep for having a child, and I’ve been really pleased with SteamOS. I feel Linux is so very close.

Good question!

“Programming and coding are closely related but not the same. Programming is the process that covers problem-solving, designing, building, and maintaining software, while coding is the step of writing the actual instructions in a programming language. Both are important and work together to create complete software solutions.” - Geeksforgeeks

I’ve never used it, but people I work with teach Scratch to in their spare time. I quick search suggests it is years 8+. I guess it’s more programming than coding, but could be a starting point and lead into coding under 10?

I previously complained to my local MP about the OSA implementation and their response was

“Online platforms must not collect or store personal data during age verification, and many third-party solutions verify age without accessing sensitive identity information. I support the Information Commissioner’s Office in enforcing these protections and ensuring that data collection is minimised.”

I look forward to using this news as an “I told you so” that they will now doubt ignore.

Not just the notes, but I feel like they put more effort into making sure the text doesn’t blend with what is on screen. Instances on Netflix of some shows where there will be white text with a white background, and the text has no drop shadow or black border.