Orgs using vibe coded as a sales pitch, Lord.

[jim__@mastodon.social]

@GossiTheDog building a website wrapper plus exec(“game.exe”) is “hard”?

[gulfie@mastodonapp.uk]

@GossiTheDog quality code right there

[fencepost@infosec.exchange]

@nullagent @GossiTheDog it happens the same way a lot of junk comes out of Google and Microsoft. From the outside they look like big monoliths, but on the inside you have a bunch of teams all desperately scrambling for recognition (see also "crabs in a bucket"). There’s a good chance that those teams are incentivized or measured on how fast and publicly they do things not on how well they do things.

I can understand it even though I’m not in that world. If I’m a low to mid-level "contributor" in one of those companies and I’ve been there for a few years, the company performance has absolutely nothing to do with what I get paid - and these days any individual contribution that I may have been responsible for is going to be overshadowed by some executive's vibecoding because they want to put their stamp on it.

Maybe I get a bonus at the department level if we ship. I can even use that as a talking point when I’m interviewing, because if I’ve been there for more than three years, I may be looking at jumping ship to another company. And if the product is crap, I can use that as part of my interviewing as well because obviously I left because the company insists on releasing vibe coded slop, and I’d like to go someplace where I can actually contribute.

But perhaps I’m overly cynical.

[fencepost@infosec.exchange]

@nullagent @GossiTheDog by the way, have you heard about Microsoft's amazing new product, Copilot Shimmer?

[kjv@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@clayfoot @GossiTheDog

The old launcher is really bad, it lags a LOT and for most gamers, having Fab and UE library and the store combined felt like bloat. Funnily for me, it is the games and library sections that lag and freeze. It is embarassing how terrible their launchers are.

I haven't seen the new slop launcher, but the old one is hated by almost everyone. I might just move to Heroic rather than use new slop

[servelan@newsie.social]

@philpem @GossiTheDog We are not Luddites for wanting humans to create our diversions.

[retrosponge@kind.social]

@GossiTheDog I love that they're going on about how much faster it is than Steam when the loading speed was never the reason people weren't buying stuff from their shitty service.

Steam could take five minutes to load and Epic could load in five seconds and I'm still not buying from Epic.

[jigmedatse@social.openpsychology.net]

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social I get that from time to time, because I've overloaded my system, and I think it's because X11 just can't keep up. But I'm not sure I can tell what you're using for your system (I've not enbiggened yet).

[shammers@mastodon.coffee]

@GossiTheDog oh my god, it hurts from laughing so hard.

if a company is going to slop it up and brag about it, at least make ii presentable. lmao fuck.

[nikolar@mastodonsweden.se]

@GossiTheDog haha. Knew it

[paul@fedi.paulwilde.uk]

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social #Sloptastic!
Such massive slop!
#Sloptacular!

[landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@kjv @clayfoot @GossiTheDog Epic have been surprisingly incompetent with the launcher, so it's not entirely surprising that they have tried just vibing another. It's so bad, that there was a chance vibe output would be superficially better.

Of course, not anything I'd let even near my payment info, but they aren't exactly known for thinking things through. It would affect their development velocity or some bullshit (even pre-AI).

[landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@da_667 @GossiTheDog An entire day has passed, and Steam apparently released a startup performance fix.

It's still ridiculously long, though. (Steam's startup performance, that is—12 sec until my library is shown, I just measured)

[wifiwits@infosec.exchange]

@fencepost @GossiTheDog @nullagent that sounds pretty bang on

[kitsunevixi@sakurajima.social]

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Epic fail

[nosirrahsec@infosec.exchange]

@gsuberland @da_667 @GossiTheDog this is very true

[lando@infosec.town]

@da_667 @GossiTheDog the absolute funniest part is that the steam client got an update two days ago that decreased startup time. Their claim wasn’t even true when they made it. store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/710037059469839720

[daemonspudguy@app.wafrn.net]

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

Meanwhile Steam… still works.

[doragasu@mastodon.sdf.org]

@GossiTheDog Hey, but it's 0.06 seconds faster than Steam to restore from the task bar. Way to go!

[gossithedog@cyberplace.social]

BlueSky announcing their pivot to AI vibe code slop, not via BlueSky but X, was on my bingo card.