@benjamineskola
This is for internal company software for a warehouse/transport management system for a logistics company, and I'm lucky enough to be the dev on the out of hours support rota for the next week, so I'd be a bit biased to rolling out changes right now. 😀
Luckily the warehouses are shut for a couple of days and trucks shouldn't start moving until Monday so hopefully its just skeleton staff for the time that I'm on support.

Anyone in #software #development fed up with code shipping before major holidays? I am the sole #devops guy in this company, and I spotted some talk of doing a release build today in one of the team chats from a couple of the #dev managers, so I quickly composed and sang them a little song to discourage their efforts given we have almost no #developer coverage due to holidays. I dont think they approved, but they didnt ask for a release in the end :)

CTO of the company has just sent round an email to all staff saying that we need to enroll our voices in Teams' #AI voice recognition so that "teams transcription can accurately record who talks in meetings". Queue a handful of devs grossly unhappy about giving #Microsoft additional training data. The wording implies this will be mandatory company policy from this point forward with no opt out. #aislop #Development #dev #teams

I want to make the bed, but these two are far too happy in the sunbeam this morning.
#cats #catsofmastodon #caturday #catproblems

Talking to the wife about barbers, and how the majority often try to spark up conversation about football, and how you can end up sitting in awkward silence with someone with sharp blades around you if you dont support the right team or dont enjoy football, and shes responds with "we need a lesbian barber, because then you'd feel comfortable, and I'd feel comfortable"... wait what?
(Her generalising) "you always feel comfortable with a gay around"

I bought an Aqara M2 Hub because it offered Matter controls, but turns out the product description wasn't clear and all the M2 does is act as a bridge and expose all attached Aqara devices to a seperate Matter controller. So I ended up buying another Aqara Hub, the M3, as that can act as the controller for Matter devices. But I still feel like Ive missed a trick here and done something stupid. 2/2

Honestly why the hell is it so hard to use #Matter as a system to manage #homeautomation ? I've got Google Home minis (pre-Nest), a few 3rd gen Amazon Alexas, Philips Hue doing 90% of the household lighting, TP-Link Kasa (almost completely swapped to Tapo) for plugs and some temperature monitoring, Switchbot for additional temp monitoring, and Aqara running roman blinds in the house. Oh, and outdoor lighting by Govee. None of the hubs I have are Matter controllers apparently. 1/2

The company is harassing #devs to #vibecode to justify paying for #aislop services. I asked #copilot to refactor a pipeline to add reviewers if certain keywords are in commits. It happily changed a 60 line yaml making #azuredevops api calls into 4 lines of bash, finishing with a vso logging command that looked perfect. Trouble is, it hallucinated an answer as the logging command it gave me doesnt exist. I told it so and it apologised, then gave me almost my exact code back as the solution.

Whoever thought controlling CI/CD using yaml from the same repo as project source can't have worked in a large dev team before running multiple branches. The amount of hours I've just wasted helping devs in the team get their builds back on track after someone broke (and I had to then fix) the validation pipelines due to a nuget package change is time I won't get back, or thanked for (this is why I personally still prefer 'classic' CI/CD) #Development #dev #cicd #software #devops

Cleaning my home office, I realised my keyboard I use heavily for #programming was filthy and showing age (a lot of letters on keys are starting to wear off). After a good clean, I noticed I have a 'Right Shit' key. :)
#dev #it #hardware #softwaredevelopment #Development

@mathw @GossiTheDog
In my company's instance the head of dev has 'gone off to think about the impact of it'. You could slap permissions restrictions on the user accounts, but then that negates most of the purported benefits of the MCP servers out of the box.

Absolutely chilled Sunday. I just want to veg like this one all day. #LateCaturday #cats #cat #cosy

@GossiTheDog
I think this is what's going on in my company, our Dev Head is dead keen for us to find any use of AI. Desperately keen for us to implement MCP usage, but I had fun showing him how any of our devs could absolutely wreck our repos if they wanted to, by issuing destructive commands via chat prompt, as their permissions would let them. I demoed it by asking our MCP agent to add 'Mr Flibble is very cross' to all work items on a sandbox project and it happily defaced all the tickets

Granted I asked for my work items, but that's just because I didn't want to deface other colleagues' work which would have been easy to do. There's a lot of power in the MCP tools, but nobody appears to be pushing the security of them in development, or how to reign them in from being too overzealous with their actions.

Talking to the #Copilot obsessed head of dev, he wants us to embrace vibe coding and use #MCP servers in #Development to speed up our #Azure integration. I've just demoed how insecure this is by asking the agent to add 'Mr Flibble is very cross' to all my open work items, and its happily done it. Now, what if I asked it to delete all work items? Copilot would do it if the account has permission, and there's no easy recovery #ai #vibecoding #Devops #dev

I've just set the cat amongst the pigeons. In a meeting, one of the teams are raving about this new 3rd party integration they've done to scan commercial invoices "using AI", over our existing in-house solution that used Google Lens. I've just asked had they collected any before/after metrics to see if we're chucking money at an "AI solution" for no actual ROI over what we had already. What a surprise, answer is no they haven't. #development #dev #ai #aibubble #techdebt #developers

@dannyjpalmer
Whoever thought putting unshielded power/reset buttons and usb ports atop cases clearly never had cats in their lives. I've had to fashion a molly guard from a bit of leftover packaging plastic from an sd card over my case's buttons to stop my cats doing just this.

"You enter the corridor and find an obstacle in your path". Sometimes I feel like I'm in a real life D&D adventure. This cardboard had been standing against the hallway wall. Somehow, it has become part of Sushi's attempts to conceal himself. I feel like this is a trap. #caturday #catsofmastodon #cat #cats

I know how my Burmese feels on a cold autumnal morning like today. I didn't want to get out of bed either. #LateCaturday #catsofmastodon #cats #autumnvibes #autumn #sunday

That moment when you're scrolling the unfiltered fediverse feed and accidentally favourite adult content whilst dragging the feed along.
I need to try a bit of the filtering mechanics out. :o