Great guidance hidden in here for making it expensive for agents to navigate your website. Move elements on screen as the mouse moves, force natural mouse movement to make the UI work, change the button labels in the JS to be randomly named every visit, force scrolling to the bottom of the screen to check for hidden extra tasks...

Hang on, that sounds like common corporate SaaS apps.

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zmmmmm an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It's really weird, I'm seeing across the board that people who never believed in them before are suddenly all into good software eng practices (starting with writing a spec) because of AI.

It's kind of fascinating that we never were willing to do these things for humans but now that AI needs it ... we are all in. A bit depressing in the sense that I think mostly the reason we happy to do it for AI is that we perceive it will benefit us personally rather than some abstract future human.

	▲	bloppe 16 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		My friend at a faang was talking about the "massive overhauls to make everything ready for ai". I asked for an example. He said "basically just documenting the shit out of everything" I guess that just never occurred to anybody before.
	▲	GarnetFloride 41 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		My manager just told me that after 12 years of trying to get one of the founders to understand the difference between dev docs and user docs, they tried getting Claude to do it and he finally got it that they are different. He'd been saying this whole time that customer could just read the dev docs. If they could they wouldn't need our software.
	▲	taneq an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It’s an interesting psychological phenomenon. It’s like the way I keep my house way tidier since I got a robot vacuum. Pick things up off the floor for aesthetics’ sake? Nah. Pick them up because the vacuum will attempt to eat them and might get sick? Of course!

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MereInterest 10 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The trick is that you make it something that humans want to do. Using [0] as an example, the interactive elements move, with context-dependent environment interactions.

[0] https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/papers/p152-chao.pdf

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notjustanymike 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ah damn it, we invented Jira

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fooker 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Jira from first principles

Almost sounds like an Orielly book

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QuantumNomad_ an hour ago | parent [-]

The O’Reilly animal for Jira is apparently some kind of duck or goose.

Matthew B. Doar (2011). Practical JIRA Plugins. O’Reilly.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/practical-jira-plugins/...

In case anyone was wondering. Which they probably weren’t :p

	▲	fooker 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'm more interested in the next volume: impractical Jira plugins

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drob518 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Real LOL!