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Anecdote: I worked with software for battery EV power-train diagnostics, one of our devs decided to add emojis to success and error messages. He added a fire e

Anecdote: I worked with software for battery EV power-train diagnostics, one of our devs decided to add emojis to success and error messages. He added a fire emoji to one success message. When testers saw it they were afraid that the customer would think it was a thermal runway problem. Had to do a last-minute revision of the software before shipping the new version. I was already pretty anti-emoji / personal touch / fun features / easter eggs in professional software. But having to pull a 2-hours overtime to crank out a new release definitely settled me on the side of never again. edit: To be clear no one actually thought it was a problem, but our QA were very much serious about reducing any potential for confusion when dealing with >1million USD machinery.

MBCook 4mo ago
Whether you think emojis are ok or not, there are times and places. That’s not a time and place.
- DanielHB 4mo ago
  I know, I was against it when he added it, triggered a 5min discussion and I was "whatever, sure"...
- something765478 4mo ago
  Yeah. If I'm trying to debug a problem and keep running into error messages, the emojis would drive me up the wall.
peddling-brink 4mo ago
> one of our devs decided to add emojis to success and error messages. Was this LLM-driven development? I'm so glad that phase is over.
- xboxnolifes 4mo ago
  Over? Hello person from the future, may I ask when this phase ends?
- DanielHB 4mo ago
  No this was before chatgpt launched
- sixeyes 4mo ago
  emojis in everything was a thing developers did long before the llms picked it up
mncharity 4mo ago
> To be clear no one actually thought it was a problem [1] Susan Kare https://kare.com/ https://kare.com/ at EG8 (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlb77dDHIXQ&t=273s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlb77dDHIXQ&t=273s "I designed this image [unhappy Macintosh] and this bomb because I was told they would never be seen by anyone! So I thought I could be a little irreverent. But unfortunately, that was not the case." "The programmers truly thought at the time that they would be deeply hidden. I know that right after the Mac shipped we were in our software area and a call came in fielded through Apple and it was a woman who was using MacWrite, and it had crashed, and she was afraid her computer was going to blow up! So, I felt kinda bad!" Transcript from http://jimrattray.net/blog/2014/7/1/on-designing-an-iconic-bomb http://jimrattray.net/blog/2014/7/1/on-designing-an-iconic-b... .

MBCook 4mo ago

Whether you think emojis are ok or not, there are times and places. That’s not a time and place.

DanielHB 4mo ago
I know, I was against it when he added it, triggered a 5min discussion and I was "whatever, sure"...
something765478 4mo ago
Yeah. If I'm trying to debug a problem and keep running into error messages, the emojis would drive me up the wall.

peddling-brink 4mo ago

> one of our devs decided to add emojis to success and error messages. Was this LLM-driven development? I'm so glad that phase is over.

xboxnolifes 4mo ago
Over? Hello person from the future, may I ask when this phase ends?
DanielHB 4mo ago
No this was before chatgpt launched
sixeyes 4mo ago
emojis in everything was a thing developers did long before the llms picked it up

mncharity 4mo ago

> To be clear no one actually thought it was a problem [1] Susan Kare https://kare.com/ https://kare.com/ at EG8 (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlb77dDHIXQ&t=273s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlb77dDHIXQ&t=273s "I designed this image [unhappy Macintosh] and this bomb because I was told they would never be seen by anyone! So I thought I could be a little irreverent. But unfortunately, that was not the case." "The programmers truly thought at the time that they would be deeply hidden. I know that right after the Mac shipped we were in our software area and a call came in fielded through Apple and it was a woman who was using MacWrite, and it had crashed, and she was afraid her computer was going to blow up! So, I felt kinda bad!" Transcript from http://jimrattray.net/blog/2014/7/1/on-designing-an-iconic-bomb http://jimrattray.net/blog/2014/7/1/on-designing-an-iconic-b... .