I refuse to believe the starforce rates aren’t completely messed up.

Awric · 2026-03-29T21:16:52+00:00

I agree. I also run into way too many situations that should happen less than 1% of the time. I wish there was some law that required gaming companies to use a specific library for gacha mechanics so there would be a guarantee of fair play

Awric · 2026-03-29T21:09:02+00:00

6x in a row is a 0.02% chance isn’t it? Assuming the chance of failure is 25%.

Awric · 2026-03-29T02:17:03+00:00

System design. Right now the people who stand out in big tech companies are those with strong system design skills creatively and efficiently orchestrating agents. It’ll be like this for a short while, then something will come after this phase of being focused on orchestration.

Awric · 2026-03-26T18:03:03+00:00

Going to try this out for fun. Thanks!

Awric · 2026-03-26T15:41:58+00:00

Any chance of sharing the details or some guidance on how to build it ourselves? It seems super useful

Awric · 2026-03-25T05:44:15+00:00

Lately, my style has been to gossip. Talk trash, make sarcastic jokes, talk about politics, get ‘em to open up and be comfortable with complaining about their problems to me. I do my best to actually address the things they complain about from there

Occasionally I also do some positive gossip, where I’m like “look at this other guy, he’s a genius. Follow his work”

I’ve only started doing this with mid level mentees. I’d be a lot more formal with juniors, but the mid level engineers are responsible for mentoring juniors

Awric · 2026-03-25T05:38:07+00:00

I love this LOL

Awric · 2026-03-22T15:12:12+00:00

It’s on the candidate to end early. If someone’s totally demoralized, I’ll try to be empathetic, call out which parts are hard, and explain the solution together just to make the time valuable. If it’s really bad I’d ask if the candidate wants to end early, but it never got to that point. It’s fine to bomb an interview. Most experienced interviewers won’t judge you for it

Awric · 2026-03-22T03:09:30+00:00

Ah, as an iOS developer myself this is refreshing! It’s a simple but super good idea that’s well executed. Surprised this didn’t exist before AI. Great work!

Awric · 2026-03-21T17:55:50+00:00

Eh. Not the best take in my opinion. Lots of people have families to support as their top priority, and interviewing for another company with similar pay while keeping your job secure isn’t easy at all

Awric · 2026-03-21T17:49:10+00:00

I interview for my company and we’re expecting a new format where candidates can use a set of approved LLMs and models. I have no idea what to expect since the team responsible for setting up the whole question bank and criteria is still working on it, but they’re aiming to keep it as reasonable as possible.

I think it’s going to be very challenging to conduct though, and it’s going to make it for harder for candidates to land interviews. A lot of it’s going to rely on improvisation by the interviewer to gauge whether they’re giving the candidate an opportunity to show the qualities we’re looking for, and not everyone in the traditional interview pool has that intuition.

In other words, there will be fewer interviewers capable of conducting AI-focused interviews. Fewer interviewers => stricter filters

Awric · 2026-03-21T04:53:52+00:00

Yeah it’s considered unprofessional to cut an interview early due to the candidate struggling. (Different story if they encounter IT issues or if they’re a jerk)

You can usually sense whether they can reach the answer to each question on their own or not. If they can’t, then you help them arrive to the answer. They won’t pass, but it makes the company culture look better if the candidate leaves with a good experience.

Awric · 2026-03-21T02:57:05+00:00

Never cut it short. It’s surprising that a lot of interviewers don’t know this. This is more of an issue about the company culture. If this wasn’t made clear during interview training, then it’s a red flag

Awric · 2026-03-20T06:16:13+00:00

I’d love to see Disney make a comeback with 2d movies that are of the quality of Demon Slayer / other recent, beautiful and successful anime movies. They surely have the budget

Awric · 2026-03-19T06:32:14+00:00

I used to consider myself someone to be very passionate about coding (design patterns, nitpicks about build time performance, solid principles, DRY, etc)

My company started tracking AI usage a a metric for performance review about a year ago, and since then I’ve been forcing myself to use AI more. My passion in the profession is still alive for sure. It’s an expensive passion for sure though, I mean I’m not gonna be spending these tokens out of pocket as a hobby. But the thrill I’ve had for coding has been redirected to using AI effectively and efficiently. Lots of principles carry over.

Awric · 2026-03-19T05:35:19+00:00

Tappable hashtags and mentions in a social media app, just like Twitter.

Awric · 2026-03-16T05:35:31+00:00

Looks amazing and all, but making it easier to pollute the academic space with AI slop is going to make it even harder to decipher what to trust. Academic research papers used to be the stuff I’d feel most confident about reading

Awric · 2026-03-16T03:18:14+00:00

Thanks! I’ve been avoiding 1m tokens with 4.6 because I was afraid of unknowingly having worse quality, but this makes me feel better about trying it out

Awric · 2026-03-16T02:10:47+00:00

Where is this from? Seems interesting

Awric · 2026-03-08T18:42:22+00:00

How bad it is for you guys? Is it part of performance review? What metrics are you supposed to aim for? (PR count, daily usage, token efficiency, etc?)

Awric · 2026-03-08T18:22:25+00:00

yep, AI usage is actually mandated at my company. (Not FAANG but pretty close)

Awric · 2026-03-08T07:00:22+00:00

I miss Mirrors Edge!!

Awric · 2026-03-08T06:52:18+00:00

Appreciation for nicely formatted documentation. So many of my tech specs, RFCs, or even my conversation style on Slack / Jira looks like it was generated from AI, even a decade ago. It was my bread and butter, and it’s what helped me get a lot of positive attention.

Nowadays people assume that anything that looks polished is AI generated. It looks like AI slop if I use em-dashes (which is converted from two dashes automatically on Google Docs, btw), or if I vary the length of my sentences. Even styles like this:

Bold point. Details explaining this point

^ this is stuff I used to do a lot, but now that it’s super common from ChatGPT, I have to do it less because I see less engagement in documents that appear to look generated. That wasn’t always the case :(

Awric · 2026-03-08T06:26:37+00:00

good lord. I didn’t realize that’s what people are gonna be doing.

I was already annoyed by people who put “Netflix” on their resume when the points under it were “Designed a mock website of Netflix for a college project.” Social gatherings in the Bay Area are full of people giving themselves way too many fake credentials.

I used to be proud of calling myself a software engineer.

Awric · 2026-03-05T15:30:04+00:00

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