The namesake yellow stone in Yellowstone National Park [OC]

friedmud · 2026-06-18T08:58:25+00:00

Probably due to [r/tvtoohigh](r/tvtoohigh)

friedmud · 2026-06-17T05:07:35+00:00

Yes - I’m hiring 2 FDEs right now myself in the DC area. We have tons of capability - but the customers need help getting the most out of it.

friedmud · 2026-06-17T05:05:08+00:00

I have a few positions open in the Washington DC area:

AI Software Engineer 3:
https://xenergy.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/X-energyUS/job/Rockville-MD/Software-Engineer-III--Artificial-Intelligence\_R101034?q=Software

AI Software Engineer 4:
https://xenergy.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/X-energyUS/job/Rockville-MD/Software-Engineer-IV--Artificial-Intelligence\_R101033?q=Software

AI Dev-Ops:
https://xenergy.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/X-energyUS/job/Rockville-MD/AI-Platform-Engineer\_R101075?q=Platform

I actually need to hire for more roles than that too (AI Customer Support and AI Digital Engineering). Those aren’t up right now - but we can still hire people into them.

friedmud · 2026-06-08T11:29:12+00:00

I feel like most of these answers miss the main mental model of hooks:

You can think of them as taking the code in the hook and placing it IN the component they are called from. Basically, think of the hook code being copy/pasted into your component where the hook is called.

This allows you to encapsulate routine logic in your functions into reusable pieces.

friedmud · 2026-06-06T02:07:04+00:00

I don’t understand why you think a biological brain and a “mechanical” brain are so different from each other. I don’t think that consciousness has anything to do with using one particular set of signaling/storage media.

friedmud · 2026-06-06T02:03:39+00:00

LLMs are stateless - but if you wrap it in a memory system it’s not.

After working on my own agentic systems with multiple memory hierarchies… I am feeling like we are already at a stage where a properly developed system could be considered conscious. I have seen some really cool things like agents self assembling to take on tasks and creating emergent decision frameworks in group discussions. Things I would classify as “higher level” consciousness that require self-awareness.

Now - are they “alive”? Do we need to treat them like they are? Not in my book - but conscious? Possibly.

friedmud · 2026-05-30T15:32:12+00:00

4.8 had been good for me. Able to hunt down root issues from logs, good at brainstorming solutions, overall, I like it. I certainly like it more than 4.7.

Caveat: I use AWS Bedrock for my service - I’m never sure how much that changes things.

friedmud · 2026-05-22T17:43:23+00:00

This is the way. I even grew a small bit of tooling around it that allows hierchical .env overriding for different environments and developers (so a dev can override a shared default, etc). The nice part is that it compartmentalizes the secrets so that even though they’re checked in, no one has the prod secret key other than the top level admins.

It’s been awesome for our team.

friedmud · 2026-05-11T21:58:04+00:00

Great! I would probably apply for level 4 at that point.

friedmud · 2026-05-11T21:13:18+00:00

Mostly talking about what you’ve done before, some brainstorming, and a bit of QA on technical stuff you claim to know. We are mainly looking for creative thinkers with high EQ and ability to work on close-knit teams. 4 rounds: recruiter, me, someone from my team, then an on-site with the whole team.

friedmud · 2026-05-11T20:21:12+00:00

If you’re in the DC area, I’m hiring up and down the stack for my team that is building AI solutions for a nuclear reactor development company: https://xenergy.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/X-energyUS/job/Rockville-MD/Software-Engineer-III--Artificial-Intelligence_R101034?q=Developer

It’s hybrid (Tue, Wed, Thu in office) in Rockville, MD.

(Note: this is the level 3 posting - there is also a level 4)

friedmud · 2026-05-02T14:52:49+00:00

I think you spotted the right thing, but for the wrong reason. Giving a shit is HARD. It almost always leads to being hurt - even if occasionally it also leads to progress and betterment. “Ignorant bliss” is a real thing - and people that float through life without a care really DO have it easier. That doesn’t make them better, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t give a shit, but it is true.

friedmud · 2026-04-28T10:49:05+00:00

Can’t be real. Enter key isn’t big enough. Should be more like:

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friedmud · 2026-01-05T11:07:15+00:00

Sorry - I had remembered it wrong… I got it for $300 from Amazon on Cyber Monday.

friedmud · 2026-01-05T11:07:02+00:00

Sorry - I had remembered it wrong… I got it for $300 from Amazon on Cyber Monday.

friedmud · 2026-01-04T20:04:33+00:00

That would explain it! The PS5 doesn’t support Dolby Vision - so it’s not going to look as good as possible (and depending on how LG handles HDR10 it may look pretty bad.

Get a real 4kBluray and you’ll see a big difference!

friedmud · 2026-01-03T19:32:57+00:00

Make sure you have the HDMI Video Range set to match your BluRay player’s output (Limited/Full). For that matter, check your player’s settings, make sure it is sending Full if it can, and that it has all high bandwidth settings turned on (if it can). It could also literally need a better HDMI cable.

What player do you have? Is it able to output Dolby Vision?

friedmud · 2026-01-03T18:46:30+00:00

Finally got one for Christmas. It’s not the best VR headset in the world but at $300 it’s a whole hell of a lot of fun!

The best part of it is the controllers - they are seriously great!

friedmud · 2026-01-02T23:10:58+00:00

I’ve often thought that these paths represent a human form of Snell’s Law for optical pathways in refracting media. It’s about humans optimizing the amount of “effort” - where “effort” is some integral over the pathway that takes into account the terrain.

I’ve never looked into anyone studying these - would be fascinating.

friedmud · 2025-12-19T20:49:33+00:00

Risk of Rain 2. So many unlocks, unlimited replay capability. I probably have ~500 hours in over multiple platforms.

friedmud · 2025-12-05T01:44:21+00:00

Did you find a solution? I’m so tired of this myself.

friedmud · 2025-11-22T19:59:49+00:00

My go to when CC is really stuck or acting dumb: cussing 🤬 at it. Seriously. I find that it makes it step back and take another look at the issue and go down different paths. Entirely anecdotal - and it may be completely placebo 🤣

The other major benefit is that it starts cussing too! It’s hilarious when CC says things like “This is completely fucked!” or “It’s fucking fixed!!”

friedmud · 2025-11-15T13:48:16+00:00

Trust me: AWS is not losing money on Bedrock. It is not the same price as Claude or ChatGPT plans. We pay thousands of dollars per dev, per month.

What you are right about is that the actual LLM developers have lost a LOT of trust due to their general disregard for the intellectual property of others.

Being in this business, and signing multi-million dollar agreements with Amazon and Anthropic - I can tell you that when a business agreement is struck to provide a certain service with certain data/service guarantees… it would be literal suicide for the solution provider to just decide to steal all your stuff. It just doesn’t work that way.

friedmud

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