natecox
@natecox@programming.dev
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 3 days ago:
Good to know
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 3 days ago:
Genuinely, not being snarky, get a union trade job instead. Carpentry, welding, whatever. Not as fun probably but the stability is there.
Tech is such a shit show today in general; there are for sure still good jobs out there but having worked in tech for a couple of decades I feel qualified to say that building a career in tech is needlessly risky. Layoffs come fast, promotions come slow, and stability is nowhere to be found. I have spent most of my career across multiple companies constantly afraid that I might not have a job tomorrow… and I am both good at my job and well liked.
One time I lost my job because all of a sudden investors pulled out and nearly the entire company got laid off. Got an email Thursday afternoon telling everyone not to come in Friday because they don’t have a job anymore. There are countless stories out there like this.
- Comment on The layout of these floor tiles. 1 week ago:
The casino thing isn’t supposition, it’s well documented. It’s not entirely unreasonable to think it may be used elsewhere.
- Comment on Sony's PlayStation Profits Rose 37% – Powered by Tariff Refunds, Not Game Sales 2 weeks ago:
There’s no moved goalpost here, my comment directly addresses the parent.
Claim: the voting populace is a direct representation of the total populace.
Rebuttal: the outcome of voting is manipulated by policy, such as jerrymandering and vote manipulation. Both of these manipulate the outcome of a vote by means outside of simple talleys. Therefore, one can not assume that any outcome is representative of popularity.
- Comment on Sony's PlayStation Profits Rose 37% – Powered by Tariff Refunds, Not Game Sales 2 weeks ago:
This completely ignores both jerrymandering and voter suppression, both things real and impactful in US voting outcomes.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 3 weeks ago:
I genuinely don’t know what point you’re trying to rebut here.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 3 weeks ago:
Bartending is, like, really hard. Average bartender must be on the upper end of the bell.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 3 weeks ago:
If you think that avenge MAGA thinking rises above this then you haven’t been paying attention.
- Comment on Zebra!! 1 month ago:
Ok but does it lack stripes, or does it have too many stripes?
- Comment on Survey says... 1 month ago:
Well played.
- Comment on Valve’s Steam Controller stock shortage will last until next year after fans massively exceeded expectations 1 month ago:
Looks < Feels
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 4 months ago:
No, it’s not that we were “unable to infer meaning” (gaslight much?), you’re just wrong.
Firstly, tab completion has been around for effectively ever, and way predates whatever VS Code may have been doing. Ctags indexing, for example, has been around since 1992.
Secondly, even if you want to move the goal post by talking about some specific implementation of ML based indexing, ML is not LLM.
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 4 months ago:
Tab completion is a table lookup and has been common for like 20 years. There’s no LLM needed.
- Comment on Pokémon Winds and Waves announced, releasing 2027 5 months ago:
Terrible. They are terrible today. The last game pair they put out was an absolute joke in every regard.
I recommend never giving them another penny.
- Comment on Halloween is coming up, folks. So here's your third idea for a group costume 10 months ago:
Holy hell that guy is the spitting image of my high school buddy Glenn (or at least what I think he’d look like a couple of decades later). I did a full double take.
- Comment on Nexstar's ABC affiliates will keep Jimmy Kimmel show off air for now 10 months ago:
Plus it would be justification for that next price increase after this one.
- Comment on Nexstar's ABC affiliates will keep Jimmy Kimmel show off air for now 10 months ago:
Ok, so what’s your next move, Disney? Because now effectively nothing has changed since you “brought him back on the air”.
Pull some shows from your affiliates, damn it.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 11 months ago:
It’s funny to me that this is even up for discussion. It’s been a truism for as long as I can remember that reading code is much, much more difficult than writing it.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 11 months ago:
It’s funny that you’re not even sure you can do that extremely simple thing in my original comment faster than I could prompt an LLM.
No, see, this is called “having integrity” by not asserting as fact a hypothetical. I am 100% certain that I could knock out your hypothetical in one command in less than a minute but since I didn’t go actually do it I didn’t pretend that I did.
I do love the whole “oh but it knocks out all of the mundane stuff” as if that’s the primary part of our job. I have been doing development for about 30 years and I have spent so little time on mundane tedious tasks in that time. Certainly not enough time to justify the ecological impact of LLM data centers (even if they actually worked as well as advocates claim).
I wish all of you people would stop knocking what you’ve never even tried.
This is your prejudice showing (the only way someone would not like this is if they haven’t tried it). I have tried it, and I found it to be a waste of my time. What I saw was a stochastic parrot providing me objectively wrong answers to questions and code that I needed to completely rewrite before it would function as advertised.
That product is not worth drinking the worlds water and ruining people’s quality of life near data centers over. It’s not worth the theft of IP and original thoughts, the obvious copyright violations as it crawls the web (ignoring every standard “do not crawl” marker I know of), the extra cost to site hosts as LLMs savagely barrage their pages. It’s not worth lining the pockets of already super rich VCs as they exploit blockchain 2.0 until the bubble bursts. It’s not worth the real human beings who have already lost their livelihood because an executive is frothing at the mouth to replace people with machines and has been promised AGI “any day now” by LLM spokespeople who don’t seem to understand that whole integrity thing above.
The hate that you see might have something to do with the willingness to ignore all of the above so “save some time” on the alleged “mundane tasks” people seem to think dominates the industry.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 11 months ago:
This is what LSPs are for, or even like just a baseline knowledge of CLI tooling (honestly, like, just
mvandsed). You do not need an LLM for any of what you’ve described, and I would argue that I can probably do it faster by hand than you can prompt your LLM and debug the slop it hands you back.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 11 months ago:
It’s hard to find programmers these days who aren’t using AI coding assistants in some capacity, especially to write the repetitive, mundane bits.
God damn it, stop it with this. No it isn’t. Most of the devs that I personally know won’t touch LLMs with a ten foot pole.
- Comment on Microsoft uses 'Copilot' for practically everything. A watchdog wants the company to change its advertising. 1 year ago:
NAD
You’d think people who think a lot about advertising would have picked a different agency name…
- Comment on What's a TV series you've tried repeatedly to get into, but can't? 1 year ago:
I love that show but it is kinda designed to be hard to watch. I don’t blame anyone for not being able to commit to it.
- Comment on Yes 1 year ago:
lol same. I thought the originals were a myth.
- Comment on Yes 1 year ago:
I’ll take my huge stack of Windows 3.1 floppies and see myself out.
- Comment on Forget foldable phones – LG's 'stretchable' in-car display can grow physical buttons when you need them, and I can't stop watching it 1 year ago:
It still seems like you have to be doing a lot of looking at the controls to use them, which is the whole complaint about a lack of physical buttons.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 1 year ago:
Wow what a lousy take from this exchange.
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy Reportedly Getting New Content & A Sequel 1 year ago:
I’ve tried to get through HL twice and I really struggle with it. About the time they introduce discount-Pokémon into the game I start to struggle.
A major improvement to the game would be contextual actions. Stop making me swap my equipped spells for every context specific thing.
- Comment on Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' 1 year ago:
Lest there be any doubt about his motivations, Musk wrote in another post, “Can’t they just make good games and skip the woke lecture?”
I assume we’re all done with pretense and he’ll just go ahead and call it “Bigot games”.
- Comment on Gina Carano Sues Disney Over ‘Mandalorian’ Firing In Lawsuit Funded by Elon Musk 2 years ago:
Remember folks, it’s a crime to force a baker to bake a cake for a gay person, but totally fine to force a company to employ a bigot against their will.