I once collaborated with an exceptionally talented programmer who seemed so engrossed in his addiction that he would invent challenges where there were none, presumably to make his work more engaging and bearable. However, this often led to incomplete projects because once the stimulating aspects were finished, he struggled to find the motivation to continue. Clearly, this behavior was extreme and detrimental.

I think a lot of devs can relate to that

You should only pay full price if the release quality is great. And even then, there’s a reason why #patientgamers is a trend. You save on hardware cost, game cost & get better quality games with extra post release content

Not defending Ubi here, but Uplay and the games are pretty tightly integrated (see achievements). It may have indeed just been an accident

Who cares if the program has done its job anyway

It only takes a few games based on GenAI to flop for them to see the real value of art direction and real artists

This works a lot of the time with the people that don’t really care about the review. With those that do it won’t

Focusing beyond the code - as a developer you will code 20% of your time.

Doesn’t sound like a great software engineer to me

In my company everyone is called Software Development Engineer 🤷‍♂️

Basically, they won’t bother sueing you unless you end up making millions off it

But at that point the program will likely not even be reminiscent of its original form

What’s wrong with upgrading once every 5-10 years? Not everyone plays the latest games on 4k Ultra

Admittedly 4x is a bit steep, more like 3-4x

Yeah I think it was killed fairly quickly in like 2014. Was just using it for illustration. If you regularly played the game you’ll have had the same experience

Press it before you retire

Same with graphics cards

Exactly. The best time to buy a graphics card is never

If you’ve ever done their “tribunal” system you’ll know that there’s enough people in their community that would

started up notepad, which was the only application it was capable of running

Coding a linked list in C in Notepad and only one syntax error? This guy’s worth the money!

Even less so now that docstrings can be mostly written by AI

whoosh

Sounds like a great DRY culture to me

Industrial workers in the 20th century probably never imagined being replaced by robots, but it’s happened on a large scale.

There’s still plenty of industrial workers. The same will be true for programmers as AI proliferates.

These jobs don’t go away, they just become more specialized

But I will agree with the general notion that we as programmers are incredible fortunate to be able to work from anywhere, creatively, without physical labor

It does. OSS needs visibility, it needs contributions

GitHub’s community and discoverability features really help with that, as much as it sucks that they got acquired by Microsoft