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[–] vogi@piefed.social 142 points 6 months ago (17 children)

It’s so weird, i read this in a bunch of jon listings nowadays. How the fuck is it a requirement?!?! You should be fluent in CPP, but also please outsource your brain and encourage the team to do so as well. People are weird man.

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[–] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 61 points 6 months ago (5 children)

It means that the parent company has major investors in the LLM space.

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The future looks to involve a mixture of AI and traditional development. There are things I do with AI that I could never touch the speed of with traditional development. But the vast majority of dev work is just traditional methods with maybe an AI rubber duck and then review before opening the PR to catch the dumb mistakes we all make sometimes. There is a massive difference between a one-off maintenance script or functional skeleton and enterprise code that has been fucked up for 15 years and the AI is never going to understand why you can't just do the normal best practice thing.

A good developer will be familiar enough with AI to know the difference, but it'll be a tool they use a couple times a month (highly dependent on the job) in big ways and maybe daily in insignificant ways if they choose.

Companies want a staff prepared for that state, not dragging their heels because they refuse to learn. I've been at this for thirty year's and I've had to adapt to a number of changes I didn't like. But like a lot of job skills we've had to develop over the years — such as devops — it'll be something that you engage for specific purposes, not the whole job.

Even when the AI bubble does burst, AI won't go away entirely. OpenAI isn't the only provider and local AI is continuing to close the gap in terms of capability and hardware. In that environment, it may become even more important to know when the tool is a good fit and when it isn't.

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[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 35 points 6 months ago

It's sad that this is basically everywhere these days, and employers will weigh your performance review based on whether you're using AI and how well you're using it. It's terrible.

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 28 points 6 months ago (1 child)

This is a "big part" of my job. In five months what I've accomplished is adding AI usage to jira along with a way to indicate how many story points it wound up saving or costing. Let's see how this plays out.

If AI collapses as many expect it to, this job will still be there without that requirement.

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[–] froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I hope the bubble pops soon, and only smaller and more sustainable models stay

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 19 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Yeah, self-hosted open-source models seem okay, as long as their training data is all from the public domain.

Hopefully RAM becomes cheap as fuck after the bubble pops and all these data centers have to liquidate their inventory. That would be a nice consolation prize, if everything else is already fucked anyway.

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[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Agreed, AI has uses but c-suite execs have no idea what they are and are paying millions to get their staff using them in hopes of finding what those uses are. In reality they are making things worse with no tangible benefit because they are all scared that someone will find this imaginary golden goose first.

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[–] myserverisdown@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

I mean yes, but maybe if you can interview in good faith, that's not what becomes part of the job.

"I saw here that the use of AI is required. I'm willing to compromise and use AI for some workflows, but I'm skeptical of wide scale adoption. I think its potentially bad for the long term code base maintenance and stability, which is what GOG is founded on. If I find that it's truly helpful in code writing, then I'll continue to work it into my larger workload, but do keep in mind that the Linux community as a whole is more technical than other OS consumers and this will be bad PR."

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[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (4 children)

They’ll change their tune when a few of their new workflows go rogue and auto commit prs it shouldn’t and cause build issues.

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[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Ew.

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[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 54 points 6 months ago (1 child)

I wonder what they've been doing in the meantime when a Linux native client was the most requested feature for so long.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

GOG was recently bought from CDPR and is now owned by one of the co-founders, if I remember right. The focus shift towards finally giving the bare minimum of fucks about Linux likely has something to do with that.

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[–] BlackDragon@slrpnk.net 28 points 6 months ago (1 child)

CDPR is the game dev studio. Their parent company, CD Projekt was who owned GOG. CDPR had nothing to do with it.

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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Right, thanks. I always get them mixed up

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[–] OR3X@lemmy.world 44 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I had been using Heroic Launcher to manage my GOG library on Linux. It works well enough, but an official Linux native GOG client would certainly be welcome.

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 39 points 6 months ago*

Literally the top requested feature in the forums, then they cleared it out and it became ...the top requested feature in the forums

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[–] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 27 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

Okay, in other words: I won't be buying any more Steam games 🐳

Got enough stuff in my library to last until GoG starts working nicely enough on Linux 🐧

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 41 points 6 months ago (7 children)

You don't need GOG galaxy to install and run GOG games. In fact you shouldn't if you care about keeping your games.

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[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 34 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

Currently happily using Heroic to manage GOG games. But, I still welcome GOG putting in effort to make it a smooth experience.

You don’t need GOG galaxy to install and run GOG games. In fact you shouldn’t if you care about keeping your games.

Disagree. The fewer barriers to using a game the better. GOG offers full DRM free downloads regardless of Galaxy existing.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Yes and the DRM free part only matters if you keep a copy of the installer. Galaxy doesn't do that.

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

the DRM free part only matters if you keep a copy of the installer. Galaxy doesn’t do that.

Why would that be relevant on Linux? WINE/Proton virtual environments are portable.

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[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

If you care this much about not using Steam, why would this be the deciding factor? I can play GoG games right now on Linux.

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[–] Marinatorres@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

Nice to see GOG putting real effort into Linux support. Modernizing a native client is exactly the kind of work that actually benefits users long-term.

[–] Ardyvee@europe.pub 22 points 6 months ago (1 child)

I love this! I love that it's getting more attention and cross-platform support.

I just wish it wasn't yet another launcher, and that all these companies got together to develop the one Open Source version everyone writes adapters for. Galaxy, at the time it was released, promised to be a way to have all of them... and then I discovered playnite (which worked better and has more options) and I cannot help but wonder if GOG's efforts wouldn't be better directed that way. Specially since my understanding is that the tool is undergoing a rewrite for cross-platform support.

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 16 points 6 months ago

Upvoted because its gog. :)