okwhateverdude

Yes, I do read every single line and I expect my direct reports to read every single damn line, too. When I find shit in their MRs they missed, it is pointed out and it is expected they fix it. I won’t merge slop. And yes, we use clankers to generate a lot of code. When you’re responsible for systems involving millions of euros and regulatory scrutiny, there is simply no other choice. My highly valued skill set in grokking large code bases very quickly and developing cogent changes was honed over decades of experience. It is people like you that have ruined our profession by regressing to the mediocre mean.

Vet your deps isn’t some nice-to-have platitude. You own the thing being built. Offloading that responsibility to a clanker is irresponsible.

And everyone is rightfully blaming the user because the software is just some random code on the internet. The sheer audacity and entitlement of the mouth breather class to his free code is astounding. Don’t like it? Don’t use it. It is that simple.

The “some people are just learning” angle is bullshit. If you’re learning with the clanker and just blindly trust what it tells you, that is a categorical error. The clanker is not an infallible oracle but an adversarial bullshit generator. It is a very useful tool, but it is just a tool. You still need to put in the mental effort to learn and exercise your curiosity.

Finally, in today’s clanker reality, there is little reason to have a long ass list of dependencies with shitloads of transitive ones. Just build what you need from scratch. Code production is super cheap now. And even if your clanker makes the same security mistakes as the dependencies you would have used, it is now bespoke to your application. The ROI on pwning something like leftpad vs. your bespoke application is so lopsided. The CVEs lose a lot of power in a polyculture.

Vet your deps. The whinging going on about actually doing the damn job is depressing. Git gud, you poser.

Guaranteed this is so microshit can scrape your camera while it is on without you knowing.

Now instead of a shit sandwich, you can get a shit slider, shit hoagie, or even a diarrhea smoothie!