yhcj

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by yhcj 8d ago
RE: 1. I did consulting for a bit, $500/hr haha I was so reluctant to do it. I do admit that SV was just pouring way too much money back then. The good old days. I don't live in the US, and remote opportunities have been vanishing
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by yhcj 8d ago
also people have no clue how to know what is good or bad. It's like if I asked an LLM to produce a contract for a a new hire (my friend the one I mentioned, did that BTW LOL) Yeah, okay, it might be good, probably very good, in fact mi
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by yhcj 8d ago
my uncle is 70+ years old and he's one of those haha I saw him starting at a monitor at midnight, back all hunched up and thought "nope, not what I envision"
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by yhcj 8d ago
yeah, I've seen plenty of people like us. What I'm sad about is when others call us out for being a ludite or so. But now I understand that these people don't understand that some of us just love programming. I mean if I say
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by yhcj 8d ago
Thanks for the recommendation, I in fact couldn't sleep past 5am today and woke up to check an SQLite presentation on that channel. Pure gold! I think that's how it is, we just gotta fine-tune the algorithms on our favor. I'm
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by yhcj 8d ago
Hey beej71, I'm 41 and I love advice from people with more life experience than me. I also love teaching (not particularly great at it, but not the worst) and taught SALSA dancing for a few years. The money was okayish (enough for myse
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by yhcj 8d ago
good you realized that, but you do mention an interesting approach: Most of my friends would use cheat codes to beat games. Me and my brother (who's a crazy amazing artist btw) would instead figure out how to get good enough in a game
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by yhcj 8d ago
One thorn? I already lived under a cave but did you see the amount of money and hype pushed into AI? Just look at YC, 90% AI, just like it was crypto back then. Jensen Huang saying we have AGI. One thorn I can handle. A field full of slugs
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by yhcj 8d ago
Hey great for you! I've been on a 3 year sabbatical, and I spend most summers in the countryside with my kids, grilling meat, planting berries, going in nature for hours-long walks. It's really a great life ain't it? So you&#
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by yhcj 8d ago
EXACTLY! The dopamine we get from doing stuff with mostly our own hands is unbelievable. But social media, junk food, and adult content should have taught us that cheap dopamine is addictive and dangerous. Most of us will learn the hard way
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by yhcj 8d ago
because some of us have some dignity (and savings) left. That's really just what it is. If I lie to my wife I can't sleep at night. I almost sold my soul to the devil doing AI assisted coding review for top dollar. That night I al
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by yhcj 8d ago
Damn, would love to work somewhere where no LLMs are needed. I have a friend working for Nintendo stuff (I think he does something for their secondary software, IE sales) and he is not allowed to use LLMs. Happiest man on earth. If I were i
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by yhcj 8d ago
I used to think there'd be space for unfuckers. Now I'm doubftul. Yeah I could do management and all that crap but I was Eng Manager for 5 months and hated it. Some of us are like huskies, we need to run on the Siberian Permafrost
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by yhcj 8d ago
if I got $1 for every time me or anyone I know prompted AI, got the wrong answer, and people claimed "you need good practices / get better at prompting" I'd be a millionaire The problem is these companies literally say &
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by yhcj 8d ago
It's like the casino, crypto gambling, or eating junk food. We're wired for that short-term gains and few of us can escape it. I understand that, just sad that the casino slot machine had to hit our craft.
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by yhcj 8d ago
Yep agree. As much as I like to put power in the individual, this has become a huge nightmare for those of us who were kind of decent programming. This was NOT the case 5 years ago. At all.
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by yhcj 8d ago
I actually quit bigger companies and SV contracts because the amount of hype was way overblown. Nothing could not be AI, really. Think about how crazy it is that Jensen Huang is saying "AGI is here", seriously. I first thought mal
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by yhcj 8d ago
what does "verify the data on disk" even mean? I guess without knowing what the project is it's weird to think testing it + checking some files is enough, at least for me
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by yhcj 8d ago
I literally was earning 5x times more working for contracts and companies but got super sick of it, I was happy to work with one single guy (who PROMISED to keep AI at bay, it was our original part of the deal) for a huge paycut Well that d
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by yhcj 8d ago
Haha this is such a funny argument really. My guy in fact started by blaming himself for prompting wrong, and yesterday he was "upset" that his friend Claudio missed some important documentation details (three API keys were needed
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by yhcj 8d ago
This is the thing that people just simply don't see. And for those who say "well why code and use your brain?", may I remind them that cities where people do a lot of walking are so much enjoyable, better for people mentally
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by yhcj 8d ago
problem is I can't, because the BE is not doing what the FE team needs it to do. The FE team consists of me btw.
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by yhcj 8d ago
social media in an excellent example, alcohol, or even marihuana where it's pretty much legal to consume in my home country and a total pain in the ass for those of us who hate the smell. Sucks that my children have to smell it, really
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by yhcj 8d ago
no worries, a lot of these assumptions exist mostly in my head as a frustrated dev. and yeah luckily I ended up quitting just right when coding was getting easy with LLMs and even back then (3 years ago) I remember our PMs and bosses saying
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by yhcj 9d ago
exactly how I feel. I mean let's face it, we were overpaid and underworked because we were considered magicians, but the magic is gone. What I fear is that it's impossible for the untrained to see the difference between a highly-t
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by yhcj 9d ago
Thanks for your input. I find testing (especially FE, where a single change can ripple through the whole chain) is actually a great way to use LLMs It's sad because I've known this guy for 20 years and since the beginning he had a
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by yhcj 9d ago
That's the thing, that's how he started, but knowing his personality, I knew the temptation would be too high. I warned him. Then yesterday when I started asking him questions about how certain stuff worked, he had absolutely no c
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by yhcj 9d ago
haha seriously? Damn I really gotta buckle up
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by yhcj 9d ago
yeah that's exactly my worry. I'm sure there could be some opportunities if I were in the US but I'm neither a citizen nor a resident. I've worked remotely my whole life and not looking to relocate.
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by yhcj 9d ago
used to respect my skills, since we started this project before AI, but as I told him in the beginning, the more he asks a sycophantic AI stuff, while asking me less, the less he will respect my opinion. It's just the nature of things.

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