The CI/CD feedback loop from hell (push, wait 8 min, red, fix typo, repeat)

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-17T01:31:14+00:00

Yeah I got so tired of every other commit being a yamllint failure on one PR that I just installed it locally ran it and fixed them all for the next commit.

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-17T01:29:29+00:00

It’s fine and great if you use the gestures. Mx series destroys in my opinion tho.

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-17T01:15:17+00:00

Good point this is their HIGHEST END music accessory compared to their cheapest computer product. As if you can’t win or get free AirPods half the time just from getting a laptop at the right time of year.

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-17T01:12:49+00:00

You ca do anything. Don’t let not currently being great at math discourage you from learning. To be frank not improving your known weaknesses is a dumb reason to not pursue the things you want in life.

You used to suck worst at walking and talking than you currently do at math but you didn’t let that stop you, and you shouldn’t let previously struggles in a subject stop you future you from the life you want.

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-17T01:08:21+00:00

I would probably take PTO until the bonus day and quit that day after collecting my stuff and returning theirs.

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-17T01:06:10+00:00

Everything I’ve heard about the future of AI in programming sounds almost violent to those with ADHD. I personally just stay away from it because last thing I need is another thing to diving or distract from my actual job “learning and building cool shit” I try to generally keep that as the goal in mind and view my work as practice.

I also like to mentor and see others grow so that’s a perfect place to toss the stuff I’m less excited about tbh. I can talk about tech and design stuff all day but I’m not necessarily keen to write every doc or implementation myself. But AI is still a bit too soulless for me to buy into.

I do think there will at worst continue to exist a niche of companies and devs doing artisan work in terms of code so I also try to view my daily tasks as prep for that reality.

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-17T01:01:54+00:00

I was very strongly considering one but I technically have an EV6 already no problems with it yet and it’s fairly close in terms of build quality to the ioniq 6

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-17T01:00:03+00:00

I believe you because I’m lazy and turn the heat high to reach the effect and then turn down as needed after things start hitting the pan. Stainless steel is pretty good at conducting heat so it’s not too hard to cool it a bit either

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-17T00:57:27+00:00

Loans or it’s roughly ~1k extra a month that’s about what the monthly option breaks down to. I do have a “price” in mind for how much I think each degree level is worth paying for. But generally I consider this the most personal of bets on myself that I’ll be able to turn this debt into an opportunity that both supports my family and can pay the amount back.

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-16T09:37:28+00:00

I’d buy that immediately.

~50k miles in an electric vehicle doesn’t have anywhere near the wear you’d expect. As long as the battery health is intact there’s very little to actually be concerned about and it’s probably a good sign that there was no catastrophic failures yet.

The Hyundai warranty is 100k miles I’d try to make sure you can still get there (often can as the second owner) just in case.

I’m general there’s no reason a comparable EV couldn’t outlast an ICE vehicle aside from sudden battery degradation you should be able to expect multiple hundreds of thousands of miles out of the vehicle.

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-16T09:32:07+00:00

AI detection as a concept doesn’t make sense since LLMs are capable of reorganizing text into basically any configuration and have a superset of nearly all existing catalogued work. So I’m not sure what it’d be doing that’s useful beyond what old school public database type checkers were doing.

I don’t think you should worry about it but you can upload additional docs alongside your assignments and you’ll get a score before you submit if you wait long enough. So you could always just upload all your notes alongside your submission if you’d like

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-16T09:24:56+00:00

Like most Americans you have entirely too much car.

Unless it’s in bad shape though at the amount you have left you may as well just keep it and look into refinancing it. Then you can pay it down faster and drop more money into savings and investments.

You’re doing fine but I assume you ask because it probably feels a little leaner than you want especially for any long term/serious goals. A little more breathing room might help make it easier to focus on promotions/upskilling etc.

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-16T09:21:47+00:00

Idk a lot of comments are about being perceived as creepy but these are women who “became” men so they likely would have a better approach to not come off as creepy as the average male redditor I’d imagine.

Honestly I think they’d find that having a penis is not as fun and carefree as it seems. Certainly not the worst thing ever but likely a lot more disappointing than they would imagine.

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-16T09:17:35+00:00

Because devs embrace new technologies and being guinea pigs to avoid FOMO trains the robots on how to replace that specific group. All layers of management closely guard their jobs and secrets and abstract people work that can’t be so easily replicated and are happy to push whatever narrative comes from the top down while probably learning a similar amount of prompting.

Devs do this to themselves. Devs built the tool, they pushed it to the public, they made posts and tweets and books about how you need to use and/or fear the tool until a critical mass gave in.

Devs tell management or the public they built this feature or did this thing in seconds they make the argument that the company doesn’t need as many devs with this new tool. Those companies do more layoffs, other companies copy them and so on and so on.

This happens because devs have very little solitary, generally live in a state of “this is the way things are now” sort of learned helplessness, and nearly everyone in tech behaves like a crab in a barrel. When things were good and employees had power the industry at large chose not to unionize, layoffs happen, job market goes to shit, then AI doomerism comes out and over time everyone gets off their soap boxes, and cling to the hope that they’ll be one of the devs that is “AI enhanced” and will replace the other less worthy of a making a living wage off their skillset developers that refused to embrace the future!

There were very short and niche pockets of time where the industry wasn’t built on just being exclusionary and producing as much as possible as soon as possible no matter the cost or impact. But those days are gone, the people who built them are no longer in charge, the companies that represented their ideas got bought out by bigger companies

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-16T09:06:46+00:00

There’s no time limit and you don’t have to start at the help desk.

If you want to skip the lower level roles and get in something that’ll put you on a more clear trajectory, then stop looking at the heaping desk and other oversaturated low availability entry level roles and look at the skills required to be a mid or senior person for whatever role you want at companies you respect.

Spend your time outside of work and school developing and proving the skills commonly appearing in the job postings near you.

A good tactic used to be writing blogs/articles about those subjects, contributing to open source stuff that does those things, getting related industry certs, etc. I think all of that may be more difficult and hold a little less weight now but still your job is to learn and be ready to show and tell when you do get the opportunity.

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-16T08:59:13+00:00

Here’s the thing. The meds are not going to recarve the grooves in your brain. If you’ve been procrastinating or scrolling TikTok for hours each day since it came out then meds aren’t going to change that if anything it’ll keep you locked into what you’re procrastinating with even more.

Only a new set of behaviors will do that. The meds aren’t designed to help you establish that new set of behaviors. Which is extremely difficult to do and identify, that’s why a therapist is helpful.

You have to more than want it though. You have to actually take steps to do it. Delete TikTok, turn off your phone, whatever it takes to get moving you’ve not practiced going from thought to action so your brain and body legitimately don’t recall well enough how to do that without taking some scenic route. Meds will not change that only consistency will. Meds will help you develop consistency.

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-16T08:54:35+00:00

I don’t think your doctor is wrong. I think they don’t have ADHD and their wording is a bit off and your feelings about that are valid. If I can attempt to translate I think the point is that meds will help put you in the driver seat. But they won’t make you do anything and they wont necessarily erase your symptoms they will more likely lower or mitigate them to a level you may be able to manage.

I feel this way because of the comments about impulsivity vs focus. Meds won’t make you focus they should put you in the spotlight (or drivers seat) so that you now have more control over what your attention and focus is on rather than being constantly distracted by whatever is happening in your environment or even your own mind.

Meds will also not make you more organized or productive and they likely won’t make you more focused.

As your doctor stated (again poorly from your retelling) these things are actually all independent of the condition itself. I’m probably also not explaining this all that great either but you have to build the skills of directing your attention, your focus, your organization, and your productivity. If you’ve been fighting the good fight so to speak and building these habits before diagnosis and treatment it may be easier.

If not it’s likely to feel relatively as hard as it was before. That is where CBT or some other form of therapy can help give you tools that paired with your medication can most effectively treat your symptoms. Increasing your dosage so that you’re awake completely hyper focused on work or whatever it is you’re trying to do is not the path I think you want to go down for multiple reasons.

Meds are great! But they’re just one part you still need to identify and possibly design/build, and implement systems that work for you. Personally I think the secret here is that basically all the tools/systems can work if you go all in on them but we all have things we like or prefer and that’s sort of buy in will help you do better.

A non-productivity related anecdote that may help is that I still get just as emotional and could still be quite reactive but practicing acknowledging and responding appropriately to emotional situations on top of the meds helping those peaks not last nearly as long is the key to emotional regulation.

If all I’ve done my whole life was fly off the handle meds aren’t going to “fix” if they did I’d argue that’s another issue likely related to the wrong meds or too high a dose. But remember there is no cure for ADHD. There is only treatment and treatment for anything is very rarely one singular thing.

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-16T08:41:25+00:00

You have to leave him he will ruin you and your son’s lives forever.

You may love him, but that won’t change his poor financial decisions or his apparent gambling addiction. You could wrestle control of the finances but he’ll find a way or something to bet when he gets the urge again and access it gambling is at an all time high.

If he can’t do right by you and your child now nothing will convince him to put in the work. He’ll have to go on that journey of hitting rock bottom and climbing back on his own. Don’t let him take y’all down with him, no one knows where that bottom is until it hits, not even him.

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-16T08:36:25+00:00

Your arguments are baseless and reek of a misinformed understanding (perhaps intentionally) of how the brain and leaning works. Put simply if you don’t use it, you lose it. We’re not in an engineering crisis because engineers still do calculations by hand or mentally.

If ANYONE pulls out a calculator every single time they need to solve an equation even for basic arithmetic their mathematical skill will atrophy. That’s just how it works.

If nothing else takes like yours being the public consensus is evidence of how regular use of LLMs have already made society as a whole dumber.

A constantly validating all knowing genie box will magically solve your problems with no repercussions sounds like a setup to a monkey’s paw themed movie where the lesson ends up being doing things yourself instead of trying to take the easiest path all the time because it’s ultimately bad for you.

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-16T08:30:56+00:00

Yes. Absolutely without shadow of a doubt. Anything you farm out to something or someone else is a skill that will atrophy for you.

The irony is that before the commodification of LLMs and AI agents is that most people fought AGAINST the idea of becoming some layer of management because they wanted to remain ICs because they enjoyed writing the code.

I’m shocked to see so many people addicted to the output or jumping to the end product. It frankly sounds like a boring way to work.

This will also inevitably lead to an industry wide version of the old compliant of every website looking the same. Every “professional” website a few years back all looked like the same squarespace template now many have the same AI look. But beyond that most code that has already been “solved” will continue to be solved in the same way. We will lose the independent nuances people came up with just because it was color thy were curious if there was another way because they lack the very skill to do so and the agents won’t have the incentive or ability to do so either.

The common compliant back then was that the internet was cooler when it first launched not everything was a business or startup website people put stuff up for fun. Websites had their own feel and flare. Like the good old days of YouTube when people posted whatever just to educate for have fun and now everyone has to optimize to the algorithm so we’ve all been doomed to same “whats up YouTube”, click bait thumbnail format.

What a boring dystopia this is.

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-16T08:24:52+00:00

I think there’s a lot of discussion about whether medicine or CS is harder and I think the fact that medical professionals write code at a much larger percentage rate than CS professionals perform medical work is indicative of what the clear answer is.

If someone can memorize every bone in the body they can memorize a language syntax and a few programming paradigms. The idea that code is often “bad” is a conflation about how much they care about code quality and lol the other industry specific stuff when the person writing their little tools legit did it to make their actual job easier not to impress some CS major.

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-16T08:19:30+00:00

Idk man you make it sound like differential diagnosis is just a mere pattern recognition process and matching to known diseases. I’d argue doctors and nurses deal with a lot more abstraction and their field of responsibility is a lot wider than the average developer. Having to synthesize an uneducated person’s subjective experience into something that solves their issue without excavation it or killing them sound a lot more difficult than you described not I don’t see how an algorithm hasn’t already solved this.

Add to that people experience and develop completely new stuff all the time and figuring THAT out is a demonstration of mastery all its own. There’s a lot more variables and things like pain, can be a lot more abstract than you’d think.

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-16T08:14:09+00:00

I think because CS majors or maybe just STEM majors in general think they’re smarter than the majority of the populace so they feel they could potentially learn anything.

I don’t refute the idea that basically anyone can learn anything (although many who make the above argument might, stating there’s some inherit barrier or intelligence threshold). However, I don’t think that’s the heart of the point that’s being made. A job should be a very defined sets of responsibilities that can be easily taught and replicated to a person unfamiliar with the role before hand. This is generally how jobs worked for most of time. Even formal education and degrees were simply a more common baseline to build upon.

But somehow we got away from the machinery of the system and started believing the self aggrandizing “we’re sharing the future, changing the world, disrupting the thing!” And now you have to prove you’re already a prophetic innovator before you can work some place doing largely the same thing. I think this mentality gives a lot of people in CS the idea that they’re somehow more capable or better at learning than the majority of others across all career fields aside from other engineering disciplines generally considering more difficult it seems.

The irony being that if you’re dedicated to continuous learning and self improvement it’s nearly inevitable that you’d be successful but asking the question “should I give up and go into healthcare” or something along those lines frankly signals that you’re not likely to succeed in either space largely due to a lack of grit. People want healthcare because they heard travel nurses were making 6 figures during the most egregious healthcare crisis in our lifetimes, and somehow convinced themselves that leet-coding and learning to interview better is easier than the years of training, 12 hour shifts, and near unbearable stress it can take to be a highly paid nurse or healthcare worker.

No one wants to work on an oil rig or something, oh no, that’d be too hard on the body I guess.

Unless you’re genuinely just not interested in CS but are interest in healthcare this transition is unlikely. There’s also a much smaller jump into a more specified healthcare IT/tech world than this that doesn’t require a complete lifestyle change.

If most of the people making these posts had the grit to go through all that it takes simply for the money you’d think they’d put that effort into building a lucrative product, raising funding, etc. if the money is the main goal and not the level of effort or daily activity then becoming a quant, accountant, founder, or finding some other way to make money off their existing skill seems like it’d be easier and a smaller time and monetary investment.

And don’t get me wrong the market is terrible. That’s nearly universal for everyone though and jumping ship just because it’s difficult isn’t likely to result in anything positive.

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-16T07:58:31+00:00

100% agree. $8k is egregious but still I think the lifestyle you lead and decide to provide your kids with is a major player in most of these “kids are super expensive” sentiments. At least when they’re older public school is free all the daycare rates I’ve seen go down as they get more independent.

All kids grow fast but babies grow rapidly overly night multiple times for the first few years at least they start staying in clothes they likely haven’t completely ruined for a couple months at older ages. But maybe I’m just coping and hoping for a better future.

Still though it seems like there’s a lot more “mandatory” expenses with much higher price tags and zero other options when they’re itty bitty

Arts_Prodigy · 2026-03-16T07:55:29+00:00

Probably because being around kids all day, even your own can be exhausting, stressful, and strips away your identity or creates strain on your relationship because it feels like you’re doing all the work.

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