Largely agree. It was, ironically, a realistic ending where they call for help and are rescued. Would’ve preferred something closer to Goonies or Home Alone.

I wonder if they held back answering some questions for season two. There’s a lot of ripe potential in the unanswered questions. Overall I enjoyed the show.

My guess is 25% of their developers use AI coding assist. Because as a developer who uses AI almost every day, I can promise you only the most pedestrian code can be written by AI. As autocomplete, it saves me some time typing. But actually writing code from scratch, no way.

Yesterday, I asked it to write some particular code for me to do with multi-threading, and it constantly wrote things wrong, like initializing the access of a database client with the user of a request, which would mean every single user would have the access of the first user, not their own.

I reviewed some code earlier this week that did the same thing with the GlobalExceptionHandler that I suspect was also written by AI. These are sort of insidious in that when you write tests to make sure the code works, the tests will pass just fine.

You have to have a skilled developer to identify those issues because the code looks good, and just about any test an individual developer will throw at it will pass. That bug would have gone to production if I hadn’t caught it. And that’s on top of code that just uses the wrong class or confuses common methods from two completely different classes.

And I couldn’t even get a job at Google when they interviewed me, twice. So you can’t tell me 25% of their code is AI-generated. It’s useful, and a time saver. But it’s not capable of generating reliable code on its own. Certainly not yet, and I believe not ever in this form of AI (maybe AGI if it ever comes about).

I’m sure we can watch them invent lightsabers, hyperdrives, and discover midichlorians. Maybe they can crossover and find the Planet of the Apes—that would be a wizard Easter egg.

Maybe we’ll find out the Dark Side comes from anti-midichlorians instead of just human nature. Someone get me Hollywood—I’m sitting on a goldmine of ideas here!

That’s probably a good way to go, though I hate the idea of doing “the first Jedi.” That being said, if the movie fucks everything up, 25,000 years is a lot of time for whatever they break to be fixed and covered up.

Can’t possibly be worse than TRoS in any event.

My imposter syndrome would never let me do that. I’m not good at this, I’m terrible, it’s just that 98% of the people I’ve worked with have been even worse, and that’s a terrifying realization.

Unless it’s filled with specific uses of MUST, SHALL, and MAY, it’s just opinion. This is the internet, so the IMO SHALL be assumed.

Yeah we moved from Postman to Hoppscotch and I think it’s pretty decent.

You can write shit tests. Finding new bugs doesn’t surprise me. Putting that much effort in does, but 600:1? That’s some serious red flags there. There are only so many variables in a single line of code. How many unhappy paths can there be for a single line?

I’m enjoying Mint, and I think it’s just about ready to install for my folks and kids. I do still encounter hard lock conditions every once in a while, and sometimes those necessitate some shell fuckery to repair the system after a hard boot. I’ve managed to recover every time, but I don’t want to support a half-dozen people because they sure wouldn’t be able to manage on their own.

Best thing I did was separate my /home partition from /. I’ve reinstalled or switched OSes a few times and never lost anything important.

I haven’t experimented with that many different distros. Everyone seems to have a favorite, but honestly if it’s stable, simple, and runs my software that’s all I need. Mint is that for me right now.

That’s totally my point. The people who hate everything aren’t wrong about some of the things, but you can’t just listen to reviews and get a clear picture. Some of the stuff they complain about is valid and some isn’t. So the shows are usually way better than they insist, but that’s not to say they are great. I have yet to see anything in Star Wars that didn’t deserve some criticism but is still mostly worth watching. TRoS and the holiday special are the only real exceptions but BoBF was also pretty bad.

The first two episodes of Ahsoka were a bit ponderous, but I think it really picked up after that.

Everyone hated The Acolyte, but I really thought it was pretty decent and creative. The usual contingent of “woke haters” make it difficult to separate legit criticism (and to be sure it’s definitely not perfect) from the usual hate-fans. The bad guy was again the best part of the show (as it should be) but he was really only in a couple of episodes.

Most recent season of Mando was okay. Not as good as the first two but way better than Boba Fett.

Ray Stevenson played Baylan Skoll. He will be sorely missed. It was one of the best new Star Wars characters we’ve gotten in a long time. I would’ve loved for his character to be continued but who knows if another actor will do him justice. Ian McShane would probably be awesome but he’s pretty busy.

I’m my observation, as a nearly-30-year-vet in the field, it’s due to the same factors as always. The technology doesn’t enforce the standard. So people do any fucking thing they want because they honestly don’t know any better.

I’m working on an app right now. On one of the controllers there is a single endpoint, out of about 30 (which should fucking tell you something right there) that conforms to restful standards. Every single other one of them is wrong. Because folks didn’t know better and leaders didn’t lead/teach/know any better themselves.

Jesus fucking Christ. Just stop. Fire all the fucking bean counters. Fire anyone who would say something like “She is the most valuable cinematic asset, in some ways maybe the only one, Star Wars has right now.” Fire anyone who talks about writing the New Testament of Star Wars. All of you are blights on the ass of cinema.

Just tell a story about rebelling against stylish evil space wizards and gangsters. Tell a story about family. Just not the Skywalker family. Tell a personal story that resonates on a galactic level. Tell a story about how very different people come together for very different reasons to fight the same enemy. And don’t be afraid to make it an allegory for real world things so that it resonates.

I’m not going to pretend it’s easy, but every story I read about the future plans is worse than the last. You fuckers are going the wrong direction. Just shut the fuck up and throw money at someone passionate and visionary. Someone who is going to respect the original trilogy, but has something more to say within that massive setting.

They are making the absolute most of their limited opportunities to fuck up canon, though.

I would love to have some more Star Wars movies that are actually good. And maybe this will be. But for fuck’s sake can we stop trying to make the most Star Warsiest movie ever? It’s a massive IP. Just tell interesting stories about interesting people who look weird and use laser swords.

This story about the first Jedi, if it is good, will not be good or interesting because it’s the first Jedi. I have a feeling they will look astoundingly similar to the last fucking Jedi.

Fuck! Why is it so fucking hard to understand Star Wars?

I mean I think Ford v. Ferrari was good. Logan was good. Dial of Destiny was garbage. I mean, I guess I’ll hold out hope it’ll be something worth watching, but there’s not one fucking thing in this announcement that I’m excited about.