Programming

So it has started. Managers, who have absolutely no idea how modern coding even works, who maybe wrote 5 lines of code 30 Years back, are now thinking GITHUB COPILOT as some Magical Tool which will do all the developers work. So now they are expecting the Dev to complete 10 Days worth of work in 10 Hours !

They are not even ready to understand that ANY Gen AI tool right now is just an assistant that can help us right repetitive code but all the complex logic implementation, system integration and everything still needs to done manually. The code that is generated by Copilot is full of bogus logic.

They just say do more Gen AI courses to make better use of CoPilot. Don't give any excuse.

WOW !

Okay, let me clarify. In the thread about overrated concepts, several people mentioned Uncle Bob and clean code. Again, the principles behind the rules are very useful. After all, software engineering is fighting complexity almost by definition.

That said, because of the tone and Uncle Bob's authority, those out-of-nowhere rules like "methods can't be longer than 5 LOC" or "methods can't have more than one parameter" became associated with clean code.

A much better book on writing great code is A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout. What I like the most is that John has a very nuanced view on software design, and instead of magic numbers and prohibitions he comes up with useful ideas like deep/shallow modules. This single chapter made me rethink how I write code and think about complexity.

As for less philosophical rukes, there's a favorite of mine that in my opinion tremendously improves average code. It's guard clauses or, simply speaking, early returns. I know, there used to be the opinion rooted in old programming languages that a routine must have only one return. This is fortunately no longer true, and in the language I use 99% of the time (Go) , returning early is one one of the common best practices.

What are your favourites?

Nu dau nume ca se supara Tremend. Anul trecut s-au primit măriri și bonusuri doar pentru avansări, eu ca orice angajat de rând nepus neapărat bine cu managementul, insa un om care muncește decent cu rezultate recunoscute de stăpân ăka client, nu am primit nimic. Ca marea majoritate a colegilor mei. Pe aia de au primit și au fost promovați în acte și pupați pe portofel i-am felicitat și am mers mai departe cu viața mea. Ne-au promis că anul asta o sa fie măriri dar ceo-ul PS are alte planuri. Au primit măriri doar 30% dintre cei care se încadrau, ceilalți au primit o mare mare mue. Mă simt efectiv scârbit, nu voiam să plec pentru că îmi plăcea proiectul însă bănuiesc că nu am alta varianta daca vreau sa mai am bani in buzunar când vine finalul de luna. Efectiv îmi este rușine de mine că i-am luat în serios și chiar am crezut că dacă merit o mărire și am rezultate pozitive recunoscute de toată lumea își vor respecta promisiunea de anul trecut. Scriu aici pentru că știu că colegii sunt geana pe Reddit și unde lucram și îmi sfătuiesc toți colegii din firma sa plecăm și noi cat mai rapid, ca să și tragem o mue nu doar sa o primim.

I have finished my game that is on the steam store, but have been pushing back the release date for months. I can't continue with coding my new game until I deal with this mental hurdle !

Viewing some posts in this sub I understand people are frustrated with how much "low effort" stuff is on the steam store. My tower defense game doesn't have any new never before seen mechanics. I know not every game is going to have that. It just leaves me with a feeling of "would anyone pay for this?". Is this a normal feeling that devs have? doubting your work? feels like I am charging money for something that isn't perfect or ground breaking?

I have about 130 wish lists, I am thinking of releasing at $3.99. I just don't want to release for free because it seems like steam doesn't push free games at all ( 30% of $0 is $0 ).

Does my game look worthy of being on steam or should I just try another game? Trailer was made by fiver.

Thanks for reading.