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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I have a guess that it didn't even fullly understood the prompt behind this slop either...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Just wait until QA gets a hold of it

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago

Another crap meme made with AI, yay, I love AI slop

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Can we jazz it up a bit?"

This is a real request from a real manager. They have played us for absolute fools.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

My favorite was to make it “crisp”. My boss was sympathetic when I joked about it being “crispy and delicious” but he still acted like we basically should have known what that means.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Surprised there's no one in the comments going bat shit crazy that this was made by AI. Are we not doing that anymore?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

You just had to wait 2 more hours for that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Well, the table sucks. I can't draw and I could do better.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago

Character development ❤️

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Customer requirements are basically always “I want what my Excel sheet used to do”.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

"You mean you want it to corrupt your data and end up with conflicting changes once you share it?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Make sure to convert 1/2 to February

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

TBF if the spreadsheet works, why change anything?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

<.<

We have an excel. It’s more… a group of excels? They call each other. Opening and running VBA within each other. The excels are “run” nightly, and take well over an hour to do their thing.

Should we just keep it in Excel?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That depends. Is the spreadsheet doing what it's intended for, or one of the hundreds of things it can do but really shouldn't?

I've made my fair share of spreadsheets, including time tracking, vehicle scheduling, email automations, map integrations, god forgive me even 'databases' - all of that because no one was willing to pay for a proper solution.

So I'm not saying spreadsheets can't or shouldn't ever be used for those things, but a dedicated solution for a problem may indeed be a good reason to change things.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

They change it because they need more money. (talking about Excel here)
And soon you'll see ads in the fn suggestions drop down
and ads in unused cells
and ads while the Solver is running (made in VisualBasic, running on top of WebAssembly, running on interpreted Python, using a Java Interpreter on your Web Browser to make sure you watch the ad for as long as possible)

And that's why we need to make our own spreadsheet software.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I want faster horses.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

AI Project Manager: Create a button on a webpage that, when clicked, displays an alert saying "Hello World!"
AI Programmer: "What a sensible requirement! Here you go."
AI Billing Department: "Project completed, that'll be 10 million dollars."
Client AI Payments Department: "Sounds right, paid!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

AI Quarterly Call Bot: Delivery is on time and synergy is high!

AI investment selector: This company looks profitable. Purchase!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

You know what we, in the industry, call a detailed specification fo requirements detailed enough to produce software? Code.

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