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[–] anhkagi@jlai.lu 10 points 4 hours ago

Even without considering the typos, the diagram is incomprehensible with all these arrows pointing in every direction and textboxes placed randomly. I had to look at the original to understand it.

[–] 56r56r@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago

I peed myself

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 24 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

To be honest, what I'm most mad about isn't the typoes, it's that someone generated this image and figured, yeah alright, that will clear things up.

On some level you want to believe that even if someone does not come up with a proper concept for a visualization, that they still check what the AI shat out, so that it's at the very least not conceptually wrong and not confusing.

This image isn't just shitty, it's actively worse than having no visualization. They could've generated that, chuckled, and not used it. Just how do you blunder your perception check so badly that you decide to include it anyways?

[–] Gyroplast@pawb.social 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

There is the decades-old adage:

Incorrect documentation is worse than no documentation.

That's why I never comment my code. The documentation is in the .h files. The "h" means "help".

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

In my company the h means "haha, what were you expecting?"

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago

That is exactly the problem. I understand people using AI to make things. I don't understand blindly publishing AI slop without verifying it's correct.

Everybody using genAI has to understand that AI will often be wrong, and frequently ridiculous, and that it's up to you to ensure that what you deliver is correct.

And because nobody likes to review other people's work (most people are terrible and sloppy reviewers), it's better to put yourself in the center: have AI propose ideas or review the result, but you make the thing. That's how you ensure everything passes through your hands.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 39 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I really hope "morging continvoucly" becomes a meme and is used to mock microsoft forever

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago

I for one will use it continvoucly.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I just made master become what gets pushed to the actual website so I do have to take it into consideration

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 20 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Well, that explains a lot about the product quality. Their entire development workflow is a complete fucking mess.

  • Long-lived feature branches.
  • Creating merge commits to main just for the sole purpose of tagging them as releases while also maintaining separate release branches.
  • Force-pushing tags to incorporate post-release hotfixes instead of releasing minor patch updates.
  • Taking bugfixes from releases and merging them back into the development branch (have they not heard of cherry-pick?)
  • Always using merges even when a rebase would be easier to follow and keep the history more straightforward.
[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 18 points 9 hours ago

I admire your ability to interpret anything into this fucking picture...

[–] figjam@midwest.social 22 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Whats a merge? We be morging up here

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 19 points 12 hours ago

It's morgin time

[–] First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 71 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Thank god we are going opposite to the Tim direction

[–] lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 3 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, Fuck Tim

[–] Gyroplast@pawb.social 55 points 17 hours ago (5 children)
[–] credo@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago
[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 hours ago

Wow, it stole it badly enough that it might not count as copyright infringement in court, but it also stole it badly enough that it isn't useful at all.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago

holy fuck, it's basically the time I followed a tutorial for generating "a witch" for AI art, and ended up with a horribly mangled MTG card

[–] pizza_the_hutt@sh.itjust.works 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It's still not a bad system if you have to support and provide bugfixes for multiple versions of software. However, if you only support the latest version and only create bug fixes and features based on the latest release or main branch, then git-flow is way overkill.

[–] lmmarsano@group.lt 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It's an atrocious, pointlessly complicated system resulting in convoluted project histories prone to confusion. Trunk-based development with sensible tags of releases & hotfixes achieves the same thing without the junk complexity. Git flow isn't overkill, it's just ill-conceived.

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

This is a joke, right? OneFlow isn’t trunk-based development and is actually gitflow with different steps. I have yet to see any org actually use trunk-based development mostly because I’ve not seen cherry-picking from the trunk adopted at any large scale.

[–] draycs@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

What is large scale to you? We have 100-200 developers doing something fairly close to trunk based development. Including cherry picking from trunk when possible (not always practical for sufficiently old release branches)

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 hours ago

I pushed my team to use trunk based development. We did cherry-picks from trunk to release branches for a couple years with no issues. Since then, I've written a GitHub action that automates the cherry-picks based on tickets in the commit messages.

But even before the automation, it drastically improved our dev processes.

We weren't on Git Flow exactly, but it was a bastardized version of it.

Having used TBD successfully for like 5-6 years now. I can't imagine using Git Flow.

[–] princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

git Morge perfec t flow for put code in to re\lease! inside very Bronch and Featue code morge continvoucly put code in Git Morge. no problems ever in gitt morge because good Flow and Barnch for code morge conflict of big code releas. Agit Morge yes a place for a code put code in git morge can trust Tirm for giveing good morge to code. friend morge

[–] xep@discuss.online 3 points 11 hours ago

Wish I hadn't read this while drinking my tea.

[–] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I know this is a meme but what is it from

[–] princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

No worries! pelcan Mouth perfec t meme for make snowclone of.

[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 3 points 13 hours ago

From 1985 when plutonium was pure and future considered 2015.

[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I feel it's a bad sign that I'm saving this meme for use at work

[–] princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 15 hours ago

Everybody has a testing environment. Some people are lucky enough enough to have a totally separate environment to run production in.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Stat of release

The image genAI is also from Boston.

[–] jcorvera@quokk.au 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

And Microsoft stole it from a different developer, who posted it back in 2011... and then ran it through Copilot without even checking it thoroughly before adding it to training documentation.

[–] StellarSt0rm@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Makes me wonder how much of the training documentation is AI generated...

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

I love git flow but the GitHub tooling is bad. It forces you into GitHubflow which is very confusing for those building from source

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 3 points 15 hours ago

Tim is going backwards in time

[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 2 points 16 hours ago

Major featue UwU