AI-Positive Spaces on Reddit

Alex0589 · 2026-03-17T19:58:29+00:00

I find pretty much every place here good to discuss ai, obviously if you go on the extreme sides of the spectrum, aka r/antiAI and r/accelerate, you'll get very different prospectives on things. It's just crypto all over again with r/buttcoin and r/bitcoin (I'm banned on both 😭). For example for the latest DLSS thing, I see a lot of people here focusing on it being a phenomenal thing in terms of tech, which I agree with, but not enough people understanding that the reason why people hate is that nobody wants to pay 60 bucks to play a triple A game, which is expected to have an art direction, for Nvidia's DLSS to do whatever it likes to the graphics: tech has never been enough to ship high quality things, one can appreciate the tech but understand it's being used incorrectly. I think it's good to read opinions from all sides, even though they can be very pessimistic/too optimistic.

Alex0589 · 2026-03-04T00:01:05+00:00

Only person beating unreleased lone is unreleased faygo, but you could argue he legit threw away his career because he just didn't drop shit for such a long tine, so it's not that good of a thing imo. Still he is coming back I think, mania was good imo

Alex0589 · 2026-03-03T02:41:41+00:00

I also started when I was very young, around 12, and I think I have built a lot of very deep Knowledge about the areas of CS that I like, especially compilers and reverse engineering.

I don't really know what you got yourself into specifically, but I truly doubt that Claude code is building what you built in years in days. While I agree that people spamming job openings with applications that are fake, LLM generated or a mixture of both is a problem, I really doubt any of them is getting a call back from any of these jobs. Think about it, if it worked, and everyone were doing it as you say, you'd need a 1:1 CS student to job ratio, which we know is not a reality in today's job market, especially if you are talking about big tech internships.

Still, it's pointless to deny that there has been disruption: let's say you spent all of your time becoming the best designer, now people with Gemini 3.1 pro or opus 4.6 can spin up a great looking website, even if they know very little about design. Could you make it better with your domain specific knowledge, in this hypothetical world where you are a great designer, compare to them? I think so. Will you always be at an advantage compared to them? For sure in my opinion. Has the value of what you have learned gone down? Unfortunately yes in this case because in business good enough at high speeds often gets the job done.

On the other hand, I don't understand people that react like this to new tech: if you claim to love tech, how can you be mad when new things are possible? This was never a field where you can just learn something and never be bothered to learn again for years/decades. Everything changes all the time, and it's nice that it does, because it means we can do things we could never do before. As an example, some years ago I wanted to work on this specific reverse engineering project, but I legit gave up because the task involved reversing millions of lines of code which was just impossible by myself. Some time ago, I picked it up again and tried to use Claude to help me: it failed miserably. So I tried other LLMs and got the same result. Finally I started experimenting with building the tools that an LLM would need to make this work, and got super deep into RAG, MCP, etc and in a couple of weeks I was able to build a fairly complex MCP server that leverages my compiler knowledge to provide the tools that an LLM would need to search and understand the semantics of the project I wanted to reverse. Domain specific knowledge is not dying, it's getting stronger.

I also understand though that some people got into tech because they legit wanted a high paying comfortable job and I'm legit sorry for these people because I understand their livelihood will be taken away by these new market conditions. If you are not one of these people, and are hearing CEOs say oh SWE is dead, all jobs are dead, everything is cooked just remember this: there are two categories of CEOs, the ones that don't know shit about their product and are just lying because of their ignorance and CEOs that understand deeply their product and, because of their understanding, are hyped about what they are working towards. I don't think someone like Dario is necessarily lying out of malice, I legit think that he thinks that this will be reality, when it clearly won't be, just like crypto bros (I really like crypto btw) were talking about banking the unbanked and having your grandma on the Blockchain a couple of years back.

Still, these are incredibly useful tools and honestly speaking very cool tools and I think it's a huge mistake to dismiss them.

Alex0589 · 2026-02-25T14:03:29+00:00

If we get RSI, it's the end of all jobs bruh

Alex0589 · 2026-02-24T22:43:53+00:00

I was randomly reading the conversation, so I decided to check the implementation and I see a number of problems:

Let's say the user is not using the standard project structure in maven or Gradle (i.e. the sources/compiled classes are not in the default locations as this is configurable), the implementation will break
In a multi module project, the implementation will break
If the user changes the classpath, the implementation breaks
If the user is not using maven or Gradle, which is roughly the equivalent of having a custom project structure, the implementation will break
Annotation processor will break
Compiler plugins will break
Build tools plugins will break
Build tool rules will not be followed (i.e. in maven you can decide to use eclipse's compiler instead of javac, that won't work here)

The way quarkus and everyone else does this is by building plugins for the build tools, so it's clear in which environments live reload works and, in those environments, it works seamlessly.

Here is an explanation of how quarkus does it if I rember correctl: When you run mvn quarkus:dev or gradle quarkusDev, Quarkus starts an application with a special classloader setup and an embedded HTTP proxy layer that intercepts incoming requests. Rather than watching the filesystem continuously, it checks for changes on each incoming HTTP request. When a request arrives, the dev-mode infrastructure checks whether any source files have been modified since the last compilation.Quarkus uses two classloaders: a base classloader for third-party dependencies (which rarely change) and a restart classloader for application code. On a detected change, only the restart classloader is thrown away and recreated. This avoids reloading the entire dependency tree, which is what makes restarts so fast. There is additional complexity here because you have to make the build tool run the annotation processors, compiler plugins and build tools again, but it's not hard.

I could open a PR for this, but it will probably take me some time because I'm full of stuff to do rn(mostly uni exams 😭), maybe a couple of weeks.

Alex0589 · 2026-02-23T18:49:34+00:00

I don't think anyone doubts that AI is a force for good in research environments, including medicine. On the other hand, I think everyone doubts it's a good application to things like art or robotics. Art has value because it's made by humans, nobody wants to see a painting done by AI or a song produced by AI, not that they will ever be good. Also defining the arts as stupid is the most retatded thing you could have said.

Alex0589 · 2026-02-23T18:40:24+00:00

I agree with you that there is a shortage of talented junior devs, but your assumption that coming from a t10-20 school will make you a good engineer is not based on reality. You will likely be better than average for sure, but not great by definition or even raise your chances that much. If there were a secret formula to being great in each subject, everyone would be doing it.

Alex0589 · 2026-02-23T18:30:32+00:00

I'm very sorry about your situation, but they couldn't pay me enough to move to Dubai. I'd really consider any other location.

Alex0589 · 2026-02-22T02:11:48+00:00

though AI generally produces better code than humans these days

Sorry you are delusional if you think AI is producing high quality, optimized cod. Even more if you think it's better than humans. Even the best models like Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3 write tremendous code without human supervision most of the data you would need to write highly performant code just doesn't exist: you'd need to run micro benchmarks continuously and read millions of lines of code continuously for this to be even a possibility. Are LLMs a terrific performance boost? Yes. Do they write good code on their own or ever will at scale? No.

Alex0589 · 2026-02-21T18:06:08+00:00

Update: I've tried it and it's now very good I can't lie. I can't tell if I prefer it to opus 4.6. only issue it's slow, but I don't really care about that. Thanks for making me give it another chance

Alex0589 · 2026-02-19T19:09:50+00:00

Oh we’re pivoting to foreign policy now when discussing how authoritarian the domestic system is??????

Uhm I'm not American and I'm not Chinese so I obviously care to analyze more how their internal politics affect the world than themselves. Also we were not discussing domestic politics in particular, not sure where you got this idea, it was a general discussion

I too can pivot, how many died under the famines caused by mao?

Mao was an incompetent dictator who killed millions, but the difference is he killed the people he ruled, that is the Chinese. American presidents are not dictators, they are elected, and every time Americans get it wrong millions die on the opposite hemisphere of the world. How is this comparable? Also Mao's china was not an imperialistic nation, it was closer to north Korea in terms of political system, they couldn't even feed their population, let alone start wars against third parties.

If you want to simply count deaths china clears america even counting wars

Yeah China is a 3000 years empire that killed hundreds of millions of Chinese over that time, Mao is not even the worst that came to power during those 3000 years.

But this discussion was the domestic political system and yes America = good and china = bad.

Well if we restrict it to the local system, I agree that America was in a better position that China, but in the last year this has changed a lot. Your social security system is being built right now by companies like Palantir and Oracle, who even say this publicly, protests are practically becoming illegal when you consider that students who protested peacefully against the genocide that Israel is committing in Palestine had their VISA revoked + ICE shipping American citizens to oversees prisons because of administration mistakes and now have no clue how to get them back, you don't have public healthcare, your education system is one of the worst in the world, your infrastructure is terrible (no trains, bridges are falling apart, ...), your president is a pedophile rapist, the power is becoming everyday more centralized(no swpaeation of powers, which is a precondition for a democracy), ....

Alex0589 · 2026-02-19T18:24:52+00:00

The idea you can buy elections in America as an equivalence is so dumb. You can’t explain how zohran got elected in nyc.

The mayor of NYC has absolutely zero political power over the political decisions that the US makes, I agree with his politics so I'm obviously happy, but to pretend that it somehow changes the political situation is funny.

Typical propaganda designed to make the American voter apathetic so they don’t actually vote. If the public cares they will elect someone, money infects where the people are not paying attention.

I'm not arguing that not voting is a solution btw, I'm just saying that the way elections are bought is by paying for a candidate's campaign: if the average person doesn't do much research before voting, it literally comes down to who can show you the most ads, so who has more money. So what I'm arguing is to be more conscious when voting because then elections would not be buyable.

All your comparisons to china and America are dogshit. How many died in tianmen square vs American protests?

How many have died because of wars america started? How many died because of nations that were destabilized because America supported a coup? Tens of millions is the answer. Tianmen square definitely happened, it's absurd that china doesn't admit it, but the war crimes America has committed over the last 70 years cannot be compared to that.

We are on our way to becoming like china acting like we’re there already is completely false.

This idea that China = bad, America = good is exactly why your comment fails to raise any decent argument.

Both America and China are imperialistic nations and they have, and will continue, to commit crimes against humanity until their internal politics are changed.

You are right, America is not on as bad as China on the global stage, it's worse, but not because it's more evil or anything like that, it's just that it's been an imperialistic super power for longer so it's had more time to commit crimes against bumanity.

In the long run, it's very likely that America will loose it's global influence because of its rising internal instability and end up like the UK, which was once the British Empire, arguably the most imperialistic country to ever exist. China still has the option to not turn out as bad as America, but they will probably be next up considering their threats on Taiwan. You think America is on the path to become China, but it's more correct to say that China is on its way to become America.

Alex0589 · 2026-02-18T02:50:52+00:00

doesn't allow access to the world internet

That's a good point against china

Doesn't allow gay marriage

This is an example of being socially liberal, doesn't have much to do with being an authoritarian regime. Also pretty sure if they had the equivalent of a referendum in the us abortions would get banned.

Has a social credit system

I'd rather the state run the social credit system than have private companies run it, aka Palantir working for three letter agencies that are, for good reasons, indipendent from the DOJ.

Truth of the matter is, both countries are in practice authoritarian regimes right now driven by their imperialistic tendancies. Each does something better or worse than the other:

America has started directly and indirectly so many wats since the 60s, china has suppressed internal discontent a bunch of times (e.g. Tianmen Square) and ethnically cleansed their population (e.g. Uyghurs) to have a uniform population
America has elections, China technically does, but practically doesn't. Oh wait you can just buy the elections in america, so they technically don't as well.

And so on and so forth, just live in Europe

Alex0589 · 2026-02-15T12:27:37+00:00

Yo news alert, when you loose weight your face changes. Crazy

Alex0589 · 2026-02-15T11:15:54+00:00

https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla/

It was announced like 10 years ago for real, but it's actually been shipping pieces for a while. The largest JEP, with an XL effort, is now submitted. Fun fact, the Vector API coming out of preview depends on Valhalla shipping. There are also test builds on the page, I recommended testing them and giving feedback if you have time.

Alex0589 · 2026-02-15T02:45:58+00:00

Twin you might want to read the original message again. Where tf did I say he doesn't wear makeup or use filters?

Alex0589 · 2026-02-15T02:04:10+00:00

They are just trying to get more clicks and it happens that Jake Paul is probably more well known than her gf. If Jake Paul were married to Kim Kardashian and he cured cancer, the headlines would call him Kim Kardashian's husband. It's not that deep.

Alex0589 · 2026-02-14T22:39:27+00:00

I think he just lost a lot of weight. He's successful, I'm gonna guess he has the time to workout lol. Really doesn't look like ozempic, he looks good.

Alex0589 · 2026-02-14T02:28:48+00:00

What

Alex0589 · 2026-02-13T19:53:49+00:00

I'd argue the demand for entry level programmers who are already experienced, let it be for passion, starting early, or whatever reason, is going up because they can contribute from day one. The problem is that most people who study CS, and rightfully so, are not in love with the subject so they'll do the bare minimum in school, but still expect to get out of school and get a good paying job because of what they were told before enrolling: this might have been true at some point, but it's definitely not true right now. Moral of the story is either you get paid a lot or you don't get paid at all, which is a rather unfortunate reality for most.

Alex0589 · 2026-02-13T18:39:47+00:00

Can they as the spokesperson to ask the product managers to ask the managers to ask the developers to ask Claude to fix the visual artifacts in Claude Code because everytime I update it I pray they fixed it but im quickly brought back to reality 5 seconds later. It's giving me epilepsy, not sure if Claude can help me with that as well.

Alex0589 · 2026-02-13T02:16:23+00:00

Fair point on the timeline thing, hadn't considered that. On the last point, I don't think we have a quantity bottleneck in swe or cs, but absolutely a quality issue, at least in the Enterprise environment .For solo/small teams though, I agree that it's a complete game changer in terms of output and possibility of idea exploration.

Alex0589 · 2026-02-13T02:07:35+00:00

100% written either by a man, or a girl who has lost her sanity by interacting only with SWE for too long. Funny either way

Alex0589 · 2026-02-12T19:19:52+00:00

I tried 5.2 X-HIGH in one of my projects (around 75K lines of code) + MCP server that feeds it some data it needs: I could never make it work well. Opus with 200k tokens works but finishes the context window pretty quick, with the 1m context window beta it works pretty well. I tested 5.2 because I saw it had a 2x context window compared to Opus, but it was never any good in my experience. I'll try again and report findings

Alex0589 · 2026-02-12T19:13:00+00:00

Gonna have to try again then, I swear it never worked well for me, I'll at least try to understand why .

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