Channel
@programming_sucks
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93subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001394156920 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @programming_sucks |
| Description | Когда вы меняете направление всех стрелок в конусе, вы получаете коконус. |
| Created | 22 November 2017 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset) |
| First recorded | 9 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 9 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 2 |
| On Telegram | t.me/programming_sucks |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Aug 2026, 13:31 | 93 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 17:22 | 93 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 29 March 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 5 July 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 9 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. Below Telegram’s rounding threshold, so these counts are exact.
ChatGPT's image generator can be easily manipulated to produce violent and sexually explicit content without users directly requesting it. The findings ... raises questions around why these models are trained on these images in the first place. (😱) https://mindgard.ai/blog/chatgpt-spontaneously-generated-violent-images-from-a-viral-prompt
The font shaping engine HarfBuzz, used in applications such as Firefox and Chrome, comes with a Wasm shaper allowing arbitrary code to be used to "shape" text. In particular, this "arbitrary" code could in principle be an entire LLM inference engine... (💊) https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/
A nation that possesses powerful AI facing one without it—or even facing one that is behind in AI by 3 years—could be the equivalent of an army of World War II Marines facing an army of medieval swordsmen. ... Democracies should seek to form a global coalition centered on building AI according to their common values, iteratively trying to draw in the rest of the world by making it more and more attractive to be part …
The future of programming won’t be languages easiest for humans. It’ll be languages easiest for agents. (😱) https://medium.com/@NMitchem/if-ai-writes-your-code-why-use-python-bf8c4ba1a055
...одни и те же качества людей оцениваются по-разному, в зависимости от иерархии. У руководителя жесткость - это про умение принимать решения, а у подчиненного - это уже токсичность и агрессивность. Настойчивость у руководителя - это лидерский скилл, а у нижестоящего – конфликтность и упрямство. Желание спорить за ресурсы у начальников называется стратегическим мышлением, а у нижестоящих - неумением работать в коман…
Помню спор на работе о машинном переводе. Я доказывала, что это дёшево — в том смысле, в каком бывает дёшево всё, что притворяется дорогим. Что бренд, годами выстраивающий собственный голос, не может вдруг заговорить голосом усреднённой вероятности. Что в тексте должны быть ошибки, просторечия, ощущение живого человека за каждым словом — иначе это не текст, а его имитация, причём имитация, которая обманывает в первую…
Programming sucks pinned «Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better. (с) Dijkstra, раскопано https://t.me/emacsway_log/1349»
Enterprise AI bills are climbing as fast as adoption (с) https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/ letter on restructuring
...коллеги обсуждают покупку Mac Studio со встроенной памятью 128 гигабайт. Стоит он от 5 до 7 тысяч долларов. Купить такую дорогую вещь, чтобы генерить на ней неработающие скрипты? На этом месте к горлу подкатывает тошнота. В моем понимании это то же самое, что купить животное и покалечить его. Или купить книгу и распотрошить её. Что-то настолько мерзкое и низкое, что даже не хочется думать. Одновременное ухудшение…
A helpful analogy is to compare forms of technical debt to types of financial debt. Some tech debt is like credit card debt—small shortcuts and hacks (say, hard-coded fixes or skipping tests) that yield quick gains but accrue high interest if not paid off. Other debt is more like a long-term loan or mortgage—a conscious trade-off, such as choosing a simple architecture to meet a deadline, knowing you’ll have to inve…
Writing a terminal user interface is not rocket science per se. You just have to pick your poison. (c) https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/
We retired the “Nerdy” personality in March after launching GPT‑5.4. In training, we removed the goblin-affine reward signal and filtered training data containing creature-words, making goblins less likely to over-appear or show up in inappropriate contexts. Unfortunately, GPT‑5.5 started training before we found the root cause of the goblins. When we began testing GPT‑5.5 in Codex, OpenAI employees immediately notic…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @programming_sucks. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Republishes
Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 9 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Programming sucks” (@programming_sucks), 93 subscribers as measured 9 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/programming_sucks.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.