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[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 196 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (22 children)

there’s a lot to be excited for, but

Job requirements
[…]

  • Active use of AI tools in daily development workflows, and enthusiasm for helping the team increase adoption

ew.

[–] vogi@piefed.social 115 points 4 days ago (19 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.

[–] namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 54 points 4 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 29 points 4 days 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.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 15 points 4 days 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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[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

That's every company right now

[–] myserverisdown@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days 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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[–] OR3X@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days 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 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[–] Surp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not to sound mean but that is a big ask for the small salary listed.

[–] Zanshi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

That's a normal salary for a senior dev in Poland

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

i hope they join valve and fund proton.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 49 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] BlackDragon@slrpnk.net 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Right, thanks. I always get them mixed up

[–] Ardyvee@europe.pub 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] Marinatorres@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days 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.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 15 points 3 days ago

Upvoted because its gog. :)

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

GOG and MAGOG end of times biblical shit going down! /s

[–] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 🐧

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 39 points 4 days ago (6 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.

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 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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[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 13 points 4 days 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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[–] FirmDistribution@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago
[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 8 points 3 days ago

imagine if they stopped using CEF.

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