rebelsimile @ rebelsimile @sh.itjust.works

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It’s a bit worse now because we have “AI” that parses through things, makes crazy different kinds of mistakes and people in power have more faith in its accuracy than they do in the humans whose lives they alter because of it.

Calling Scaramucci an “advisor” is like calling someone you met once for 2 weeks at summer camp your “best friend”.

I had like a year break between LAD sessions, the first chapter was interesting but didn’t grip me, but when I went back to it I basically played it for 120 hours straight. I also played it in English the 2nd time (sacrilege I know, I tend to play in Japanese now), but it was helpful to just get into it (and the long cutscenes I could pay better attention to early on).

Edit: But also if you loved 0 then maybe you’d ‘get’ this one since there seems to be a lot of Majima-wackiness

That’s fair enough, because they’re coming out too fast for me (a person who caught the series a little later but now plays all of these when they come out). I’d say take your time and either start at Yakuza 0 (if you want an action/arcade game) or Yakuza: Like a Dragon (if you want a turn-based RPG), and you can go forward/back from there, if interested. I’d say Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is probably a game for people who are already fans, it’s just gonna be confusing and weird without a little prior context.

Can’t tell if this is new timey advice from a rich person or old timey advice from a gentleman.

That makes perfect sense. Thanks for the detailed reply. I think one of the reasons I feel like I’m slower than I want to be is I tend to think a lot about those kinds of edge cases. My main problem now is learning to find the right-size for prototyping/building.

That said, I’ve written thousands of loops at this point but I’ve only done an input loop like that in python once or twice (in classes as I recall), so that specific method of getting the application started would probably be in that “I’d be embarrassed I’d need to google that” category. But I think once I got started I’d code out a decently competent prototype of a basic store (I’ve built an ecommerce store before so I’m familiar with some but not all of those edge cases). I would never think that code would be ready to ship though.

Thanks for this.

I mentor lots of people and i met with someone last week for the first time, and as we were chatting he mentioned several times things like “So I just asked the AI what to do, and then did that exact thing”…. Uh, so… I don’t use AI that way.

I started using it basically as soon as it came out and I started like everyone else, writing out all these requirements into the system, marveling at how it just spit back out a whole program, and then obviously ran into all the pitfalls that that entails.

So, these days, my AI use is limited to what I’d say is syntax conversion/lookup (like “What’s the syntax for instantiating and adding to a set in python?”) and anything I’d immediately verify.

I should also say I’m aware of leetcode/things like that. I play around a lot on Codewarriors and see how others put together solutions and learn a lot from that. I really enjoy the silly grindy aspects of coding like figuring out how to extract all the content from a json object that should be a string but can’t be a string for

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Anyway I say all that to say I’d be sort of embarrassed to use AI during an interview like I’d be embarrassed to need to google anything, but it would be primarily about syntax and I’d be as likely to distrust anything the AI was saying as to use it unless it aligned with what I’d expect the code to look like.

Do you mind if I ask what a “weeder” task might be vs. a more involved one? As someone who hasn’t worked on a dev team before, I only vaguely know what you mean by “We were hoping to say they needed to write some tests to get a code review”.

I work in software (relatively high up), just not as a developer. Started to take development classes at night to pursue it as my own interest, and work on websites/games for myself. When I’m working, I guess my favorite thing to do is to approach work systematically, and my regular job keeps me pretty well-informed about the front-end aspects.

I really appreciate the suggestion. I’ve written some small contributions to public projects, but (I think I mentioned in the past here) not being a dev by trade I have held back some of it because it doesn’t work perfectly and I don’t have any interest in maintaining it/fixing it for others (as I’d like to be working on games, etc). Anyway this was very helpful, thanks (I got super busy yesterday and couldn’t respond).

I have a question, as someone who struggles with a little developer imposter syndrome. I don’t work as a dev, but I’ve coded from the ground up (using AI initially but basically only these days for syntax checks or to help accelerate writing something routine), including multiple websites (initially in React/Tailwind but lately in raw HTML/CSS), games (using python/godot), etc, for my own purposes primarily (as I have a completely different day job). Is that typical of a candidate you’d see in an interview? Are you having to screen candidates like that for whether they know what they’re talking about or are you referring to more junior people (assuming that what I’m profiling isn’t super junior)?

Eh. It’s kind of a shit day, not even Russian generals being undone by their greatest weakness, Russia, is moving the needle.

Oh look aunt Lydia has a surprising opinion.

I’ve been using open webui (search for it with those terms) to run local models in a docker container served from Llama for the last few months and I love it.

Sometimes I serve apps with Flask, he wanted to get into some python as well

Yeah, OK. I just watched a complete novice ask ChatGPT how to go through installing node, pip, and creating a react app (of course ChatGPT being of 2021 suggested CRA). After 2 minutes, his confidence was soaring. And then he tried to run the react app and ran into an issue that required 2 days of troubleshooting for him to resolve. (When he asked me about it I told him he could have just deleted the file and moved on.)

So, yah, just let the CEO type in the code into the magic box, what could go wrong.

If trump got delirium and had uncontrollable diarrhea how would we tell the difference?

My 9th gen intel is still not the bottleneck of my 120hz 4K/AI rig, not by a longshot.

This is how I see it, 30 + 21, doesn’t come up that often obviously, but also we don’t have to love every composite number. In fact, we hates most of them. Add 51 to the pile.

So Tim Cook is a trump supporter then

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