it's existential horror with absurd comedy elements. Pretty much the definition of "not for everyone", so it's not surprising some (most?) people strongly dislike it.
I read "Code was never the hard part" as "Writing the Code down is easier than the stuff you do before it (like Architecture, Design Patterns, Requirements) and after it (Testing, Troubleshooting, Refactoring, etc)".
The idea that the world can be fixed and I won't need to sacrifice a thing is a little too good to be true
On one hand I don't think people are saying that. On the other hand, there are some radical views here on Lemmy.
Sure, maybe others will need to make more changes than me, and I'm certainly not gonna let them off the hook, but I'm not gonna let myself off the hook either, and anyone who tells me I can is selling me something.
if you include the sentence before, it paints a very different picture
... a rigorous campaign to ensure their system can be built without any dependencies containing LLM-generated code. This was not a simple configuration change but a manual, labor-intensive purge.
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a real sense of someplace “alien"
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Yes. so much this!
Too often the aliens just feel like green humans, and the worlds are just "earth but only the deserts" or "earth, but more water". I guess that's because it won't sell well if the audience can't relate enough with the world and its inhabitants. But still...
I liked the character writing, and I liked many of the scifi parts, but i was missing the "hard scifi" that the plot should revolve around in a scifi story. i.e. the futuristic stuff doesn't affect the story much and the character arcs would have worked just as well in 17th century exploration story. Compare that to hard scifi like "the expanse" or "westworld", where many parts of the story can only work because of the specific way the world works.
if you prefer soft scifi over hard sci, than Scavengers Reign is a strong recommendation.
"3,5 thousand" seems common in spoken language, but not in writing, afaik. I don't know how common it is in english (and dialects), but in german it is.
is this a win?