That last part about it acting like a junior matches my experience very well. I'm using LLM's for refactoring, adding repetitive blocks of code, etc.
Unless I'm very clear at all times it will write code like the most annoying stubborn junior you've ever worked with. Nothing is sacred, everything can be abbreviated, shortened, made more confusing, made less readable, and concepts like readability or naming conventions are not even considered.
It also adds superfluous nonsense comments that don't explain the "why".
The Excalidraw website describes itself as: Excalidraw is a virtual collaborative whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.
And the GitHub repo says: An open source virtual hand-drawn style whiteboard.
Collaborative and end-to-end encrypted.
If logging in disabled all checks, all bots would just spam-create users first. Of course it needs to run for all users, without it being necessarily nefarious.
I use Rufus boot to change downloaded ISOs to allow local accounts and bypass other nonsense. Like TPM and other crap. This allows me to use 11 on my PC I built in 2015.
The gymnastics VPS providers force people to go through just so they can have some dumb "wizard" with a limited number of OS choices is maddening. Just allow people to upload an ISO!
Who could have guess bombarding users with 2FA, 3FA, MFA requests to their phone 20 times a day would cause fatigue!
Some personal highlights spread across multiple jobs:
- IT decided they'd make some awful SharePoint page the browser homepage for Chrome via group policy. That page required you to login to your Microsoft account. If it was a Monday morning you'd have to authenticate via SMS just to see your homepage, or, what I did usually was ignore it. Every time I opened a new browser tab I'd get a new SMS. This went on for weeks at a time, maybe 50 SMS per day, out of spite. Eventually they disabled that crap. Anyone that deals with Microsoft logins knows that "Remember me" is almost totally a fake option that does nothing on purpose. [1]
- VPN that requires logging into your Microsoft account, which then sends you a notification to Microsoft Authenticator app, which requires a face scan, followed by typing in a code, followed by another face scan. At no point in the design process of that did someone think typing the code was redundant.
- Despite being a software engineer, able to produce executable binaries at will, which all seem to be trusted by our security software, I still need to talk to IT maybe 5 times a month to get <very popular well known widespread development tool> approved by the security software.
- Bonus points for the previous one, I often need to manually provide the exact DLL's used by the above. Every update means new file hashes, meaning repeating it all over again.
- Local admin rights to my work machine and yet for whatever reason IT make us type a password to open Windows Task Manager.
- Telling us all they have bought Copilot licenses we should use, only for IT to ring you almost immediately after using it because their corpo-garbage firewall starts throwing a fit about Copilot's requests to github.com, despite us already using GitHub.
Unless I'm very clear at all times it will write code like the most annoying stubborn junior you've ever worked with. Nothing is sacred, everything can be abbreviated, shortened, made more confusing, made less readable, and concepts like readability or naming conventions are not even considered.
It also adds superfluous nonsense comments that don't explain the "why".
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