Need != Target Market. Jet Skis target market isn't water patrol enforcers. It's people wanting to have fun.

The only reason most Americans outside NYC and Chicago ride a bike is leisure. Well, that or too many DUIs if we're being honest.

Ideally though if I had something like this it would encourage me to use my bicycle more.

As someone who actually really liked my Touch Bar, the only problem I had with it was that it replaced a row of keyboard keys. If they had simply put it above my F keys instead of trying to replace them I think the world would have learned to love it like I did.

I'm guessing you are European? Bicycles in the US almost never have fenders except for old timey / retro style models. Fenders fell out of style in the 1980s and never really returned. People who do have them usually install them themselves as an upgrade.

Speaking as an American who owns a basic beach cruiser bicycle and

- puts less than 50 miles on it per year

- has zero desire nor space for a full electric bike

- would never use their bike in any kind of inclement weather

- would never use their bike for anything other than leisure

I think it might be aimed towards my demographic specifically?

Like this thing seems pretty neat, just strap it to my bike and go? Sign me up.

We didn't want it, it's like a megabyte of JavaScript. It's some third party service corporate forced on us.

I have to imagine a lot of websites are in the same boat, where they're just add crap they don't want to add by higher ups.

When I was a kid playing Quake 3 I had different servers bookmarked, knew the players that ran the servers and the general crowd that hung around. Had friendships and rivalries.

Modern multiplayer you may as well be playing bots. There's no community.

I believe this is a larger problem than just AI.

The internet has helped people surround themselves with only voices that agree with them and validate them, often to their detriment.

There are entire online communities urging people to cut others out of their lives over the slightest disagreement.

> what about X feature

To which I argue unequivocally YAGNI

95% of apps people actually develop are really just CRUD and could easily get by without JavaScript on the front end at all. They certainly don't justify the layers of complicated state maintenance React and similar systems entail.

This sounds up my alley - Go (10+ YoE), TS (10+ YoE), PHP (25+ YoE) and I'm very interested but my wife and I both have elderly parents to support so relocating isn't really an option. (Minnesota)

As a devout midwesterner, I didn't think I was going to enjoy the place. Having spent a bit of time there however, and having been shown around by natives, I absolutely get it.

There's so much to see and do packed in a small area, and the air just feels electric.

It's genuinely a different world.

Genuine question, does anyone here ITT working in software still have dedicated QA? They laid off all our QA engineers about a year ago, and talking to friends and former colleagues it seems to be the industry wide trend?

FWW I think a good QA person is worth their weight in gold and this has been a horrible mistake. I'm just curious if there are any left.

Review the AI generated code, and understand it well enough to make the commitment message yourself.

I've kind of half joked with my wife about the idea of opening a modern video rental place there. We both lament the loss of a place or you could go and chit chat about movies.

The common refrain is "no one even owns DVD players anymore" to which I say "we'd rent them out too, for a couple dollars a night". I'm sure if I went around garage sales one weekend I could get a stack of them.

My wife's idea is to have a number of rooms people could rent for a couple hours for viewing movies in spaces done up in the style of various eras TV rooms.

It's kind of depressing just how hard it's become to even try to connect with people through modern media. It's so disposable. I try to talk to my friends about music for instance and the refrain is basically "I don't know, I just put Spotify on". Basically no one's heard of let alone seen most of the shows I watch, nor I theirs.

The modern world is a weirdly lonely existence.

If anything, you win by being a good second. Facebook won because it watched MySpace mistakes and fixed them.

There is even less value in being first with this AI-driven nonsense. The first mover just creates the template everyone else feeds into an LLM. You do the hard work. Someone else collects the reward.

Codex has been pushing things to my main branch all week despite me repeatedly telling it not to and adding to my AGENTS.md very clear instructions for creating feature branches and putting up a PR. It keeps doing it in spite of all that.

I'm probably going to need to enable branch protection on my personal projects... What a pain.