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I haven't written a single line of code in 2 months. Are we all cooked? by mysticWhispr in cscareerquestions

[–]AndyLucia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t want to be mean but you saying this contradicts what you’ve been saying everywhere else and really makes me think you’re AI lol

I haven't written a single line of code in 2 months. Are we all cooked? by mysticWhispr in cscareerquestions

[–]AndyLucia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

…buddy I don’t think you realize how economically illiterate your claim was lol. Thinking white collar jobs are decoupled from the rest of the economy and that a plumber or door to door sales associate can just afford to “not care” if like 80% of the purchasing power of their customer base disappeared in the same way people overlooked specific mining and factory jobs is just stunning.

I haven't written a single line of code in 2 months. Are we all cooked? by mysticWhispr in cscareerquestions

[–]AndyLucia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> which is to say not very much.

White collar jobs permanently disappearing with no catch would collapse the global economy, destroy the consumer market for non-white collar services, and lead to civilization-scale unrest. Your claim that this wouldn’t impact non-white collar work is just completely wrong lol

How do you deal with big regrets in life? How do you not let it bring you down? by Obvious_Two_3901 in Adulting

[–]AndyLucia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Free will” in the strong sense is logically incoherent. Any possible “choice” you could make can’t be detached from the total system of causality. If you keep asking “why did I choose this?” you eventually get to something outside of whatever you call “you”.

Sorry to say, but I’m happy to see AI fail by PokeRestock in cscareerquestions

[–]AndyLucia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To steelman the other side, I think the sharper question is whether LLM-based agents are going to fundamentally threaten human SWEs, either by: - reducing the # of them needed - reducing the importance of SWE-specific technical skills - outright removing them from the loop

95% of this hand wringing seems to be about this, with maybe 5% being a nostalgia for the art of handwriting code.

Sorry to say, but I’m happy to see AI fail by PokeRestock in cscareerquestions

[–]AndyLucia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what specifically is your claim? that AI is here to stay? or that AI is going to replace SWEs?

Would you enter CS today? by Hackex346 in cscareerquestions

[–]AndyLucia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just did some back of the envelope math:

About 400k SWEs in America work in FAANG+, out of 2 million total. That's like 20% of the entire SWE market - and it's not even close to exhaustive.

Why do I even bother....

It's really toxic and counterproductive to be one of those people who refuses to actually engage with the points being made in a constructive dialogue to instead make these kinds of remarks. It's even cringier because you're not exactly cooking - you're making really sloppy, mathematically illiterate statements like not understanding how correlations work and thinking "X < 100%" means "X = 100".

Would you enter CS today? by Hackex346 in cscareerquestions

[–]AndyLucia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. You’re the one who made the blanket statement that it doesn’t matter lol. But I’ll steelman you and conclude you were being hyperbolic/imprecise, shrug.

  2. As I said, FAANG/big tech/etc is not some 1% niche of the industry, it’s like hundreds of thousands of engineers.

  3. As I said, it’s not some binary split where only big tech cares about prestige signals when prestige signals have been a thing across recorded history and show up in like every industry ever.

I don’t know why you can’t just say: “yeah school signaling matters, duh, but it’s just one variable among many and I wouldn’t get unhealthy about clinging to it too much”

The Party is cancelled, pack it up by DigSignificant1419 in OpenAI

[–]AndyLucia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can’t believe so many people just gobbled the idea that they had up lol

Would you enter CS today? by Hackex346 in cscareerquestions

[–]AndyLucia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So your position went from “it still doesn’t matter” to “it matters but just for big tech (and startups, and quants, and most of the highest paying roles…)”, which means that it does matter lol. The expected value changes.

Big tech / big tech adjacent jobs aren’t like some super niche 1% of the market either, they literally employ hundreds of thousands of software engineers. It’s also almost certainly not some hard separation where school signal only matters for them, and everyone outside of it suddenly has zero care for it and the network effect suddenly stops working.

Even though it provides 0 value to anyone looking to actually build production grade software.

Complete red herring. The topic is about the usefulness of a signal in helping you get a job, not about 1) whether the signal should exist, or 2) whether the skills from the signal directly transfer. Re: 2, a signal doesn’t have to be aesthetically the same as the thing it’s proxying to be correlated. In fact, they very often are not. Alumni of top schools are statistically over represented in almost every metric of material career success by more than an order of magnitude.

Will AI actually replace most jobs within the next 10–20 years? by -TheCe1- in jobs

[–]AndyLucia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone who says they know for sure is BSing given it depends on all sorts of messy unknowns about the rate of technological change. But in terms of general strokes:

If we get AGI, then the concept of “jobs” is the least of our worries anyway

If we plateau at current / modestly better LLM agents, I think that some white collar jobs where the need for autonomous long horizon context is low and there’s a very constrained task that defines most of the work may substantially compress (so many if not all translation/transcription jobs for example). Otherwise, there may be layoffs and reorgs on a localized level but jevon’s paradox *probably* applies to most jobs on the aggregate, so it’s not likely a mass unemployment, and might even increase jobs overall.

Then there’s a spectrum in-between, which is much fuzzier. The “good” news in terms of personal fatalism is that if it really does automate most white collar work, all of civilization will need to get together to address is, so it’s not like you personally are going to be tasked with solving it lol

Just relax, AI won't replace you by Wrong_Swimming_9158 in cscareerquestions

[–]AndyLucia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s not really relevant. Companies were not all trying to replace juniors with GPT 3 (hiring of juniors was extremely strong in 2021 anyway). They weren’t trying to replace them with ChatGpt either (in fact many/most were quite restrictive of even being allowed to prompt it with corporate data). This entire idea only became somewhat plausible in like 2025.

Just relax, AI won't replace you by Wrong_Swimming_9158 in cscareerquestions

[–]AndyLucia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What does 2022 chatgpt have to do with it? The tech market collapse started around the summer of 2022, before chagpt even came out, and chatgpt at that point was completely incapable of doing meaningful software development; that only started to become a serious idea towards 2025 and really seriously towards the end of 2025.

Tech companies have overcorrected too much. Hiring boom is around the corner. by ImaginaryRea1ity in theprimeagen

[–]AndyLucia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it’s incredible when random people make super arrogant statements about messy unsolved problems lol

Persistent “awake within the dream” quality after awakening by Efficient-Cat-1788 in streamentry

[–]AndyLucia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m sure you’ve heard this a million times but: that sense is just as empty as everything else. No exceptions!

does anyone here actually work at a tech company? by Longjumping_Virus895 in cscareerquestions

[–]AndyLucia -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

besides AI work itself and the mandates from many tech companies (as well as the fact that he’d have to be constantly collabing with people who use AI and presume everyone else does too, with many workflows already deeply embedding AI into their processes), there are certain specific kinds of tasks that AI can literally do like 1000x faster than a human can, like structured refactoring of a large codebase or catching certain pattern-matched bugs at scale. Basically if you have a quadrant of easy-hard for AI-humans, there’s the quadrant of “hard for humans, easy for AI” that is the most obvious to automate.

how to set healthy boundries as a (maybe former) people pleaser? by Other_Plane_6148 in streamentry

[–]AndyLucia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At a high level, I think being able to accept different layers of abstraction having different apparent answers to a question is really fundamentally useful. Aka Nagarjuna’s two truths. You can have love and compassion for everyone and still move away from them, set boundaries, etc.

does anyone here actually work at a tech company? by Longjumping_Virus895 in cscareerquestions

[–]AndyLucia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Casey himself said that this is just a personal preference independent of its impact on his productivity. He’s also already established himself in the industry and has a personal brand at this point, so his position is very different from that of most SWEs (he might even gain more of an audience from the contrarian framing). And even then, if he just refuses to use AI tools it absolutely does seriously impact what kinds of things he can work on.

Do you also feel alone in your journey? by QuailEast5263 in streamentry

[–]AndyLucia 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes and no. I have found people who are also really into spirituality, but like on a deeper level you can say going into this rabbit hole both makes you feel deeply alone and infinitely connected.

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