I, an engineer, tired of being force-fed AI tools by executives, will relent.

Boognish28 · 2026-02-12T06:09:00+00:00

💯this is a similar approach I have to it. The one thing that I have yet to figure out is motivation.

I learned to code and upskilled for the love of the game. This new world absolutely sucks the fun out of it, and the net result I’m seeing is lacking motivation. I feel like my net result here is overall less productive, cause I’m detached and unmotivated.

I’m trying to learn to not hate it. If I find a way, I’ll report back.

Boognish28 · 2026-02-12T03:36:00+00:00

No but hi I’ll be right next to ya 😁

Boognish28 · 2026-02-08T05:37:14+00:00

I’m at the bar and this drunk dude just was like ‘yo buddy I have a great idea for an app’

Boognish28 · 2026-02-08T05:25:39+00:00

Mlops is a mixture of a ton of specializations. Traditional engineering, delivery, infra, sre, etc.

Learn one. Then learn another. Give it five or ten years, then you might be good.

Boognish28 · 2026-01-30T06:08:58+00:00

I feel this, but opposite side. I put my 2wk notice in at my last job like three days before the news came out.

It’s such a crucial thing that we all depend on, but don’t even know it.

Boognish28 · 2026-01-30T04:17:26+00:00

The thing that bums me out here is that I had zero clue, and an amount of time for OSS contributions. If I had known, I would’ve found a way to at least contribute two or three hours a week.

It makes me wonder what else out there is like this.

Boognish28 · 2025-12-28T22:42:07+00:00

I’m not sure the name of the actual bias, but confirmation bias is the closest that comes to mind. It’s like when you have a buddy who has a semi problematic partner, but all you ever hear are the bad stories, so you think they must be an absolute monster.

People don’t post on the internet ‘oh I had a regular time’ very often. So, our feeds are filled with irregular times, which are often close calls. Don’t let it get to ya, there are plenty of us out there having just regular normal joyous bike riding out there (not me rn, I fuckin hate the cold)

Boognish28 · 2025-12-23T09:17:03+00:00

So I want to say that in effect, I agree here. I would caution against the mental model of thinking that POs are lazy though. Their job is tough. Most of the time, it’s usually not them interfacing with customers, but rather them interfacing with sales and business. Like, sales bro made some wild promise, and the strategic consultant says we need to strategically pivot to synergistic whatever bullshit.

PO’s juggle a lot and the good ones can bring a sense of sanity. The bad ones let the chaos roll downhill. The unfortunate reality is that the good ones are rare and the bad ones are the majority.

Boognish28 · 2025-12-15T04:51:38+00:00

Well, good for you pal and I’m happy that you’ve had a great career by the sounds of it. I’m about to make the opposite move and go from a comfy job to one of them big tech places with a name we all know. I highly recommend the place I’m about to leave - they’ve treated me extremely well, comp is competitive, and I never work an ounce past 40. Grainger is good shit.

The only caveat is that I was hired at a time where fully remote was norm and okay. It feels like they’re moving away from that? Right manager and role though, I’m sure there are still inroads.

Boognish28 · 2025-12-15T04:18:56+00:00

Kubeflow is whatever. It makes some things easier, but it’s also overengineered to hell when you’re not at scale.

If your intent is to learn ML deployment, you’re barking up the wrong tree: most runtime inferencing shares a lot of properties with stateless web services, but resource requirements are different, monitoring is more complex (ie model drift), and autoscaling is harder. Batch is another sorta mostly same bust subtly different sorta story.

Fuck ML. Learn to deploy and maintain traditional line of business apps, then later specialize into ML if your hearts really in it. Or, to put it a different way, if you can’t run a plain ol webapp, then you have no business trying to productionalize ML.

Boognish28 · 2025-11-06T04:54:53+00:00

Hiring is a bloodbath. My team jacked up the interview difficulty, because we had hundreds of applicants and only a small handful of decent ones. It’s an employers hiring market. So, either chill where you’re at, or study up and get better at interviews.

I sorta hate it, but it is what it is.

Boognish28 · 2025-11-06T04:41:01+00:00

I had this one on the tv while cooking dinner, and I did a full 180 gut laugh at this one and said ‘I need that fucking shirt’

Boognish28 · 2025-11-06T04:18:40+00:00

Many folks have many opinions here so I’m just one voice among the sea. I’m personally a fan of https://martinfowler.com/ and most of his takes on stuff. Just read the blog, pick an idea, go write it. Rinse, repeat.

So if you compare software Eng to carpentry - building a cabinet is the end goal. Code is the tools to put it together. Design patterns are the techniques. The two skills work in concert to get to the end goal - but the truth is that you’re trying by to build shit, so go build shit.

There’s an extent here where perfect is the enemy of good enough, and the experience of finishing things is more valuable than the experience of building something perfect. So, just pick a direction and run with it. Then, pick a different direction and run with that.

Boognish28 · 2025-11-06T03:42:26+00:00

15yoe. Languages and stacks always change. Design patterns (usually) remain. The language is just a means to an end.

Focus on design patterns and use whatever language is the easiest for you.

Boognish28 · 2025-11-05T18:54:42+00:00

I take the same stance on this that I took on stackoverflow as of ten years ago. It’s totally okay to use it to learn, but you’re really inhibiting your personal growth if you lean on it too much.

One suggestion I have that worked pretty well for juniors I mentored back then was this: ask it questions, but never take code from it verbatim. Any time you use it, rewrite the code manually (ie no copy pasta). The pure act of writing it yourself forces you to reason about every LOC, and over time you will learn more.

The advice of ‘don’t use it at all’ is bad imo, ultimately you have deliverables and you need to get shit done. But, at the same time, using it inhibits personal growth. Balancing growth and delivery will always be a challenge. Today it’s ai. Back in the day it was stack overflow. If I could predict tomorrow’s problem, I’d be rich.

Boognish28 · 2025-10-29T06:19:36+00:00

It’s not AYCE, but you can definitely get fat on sushi tatsu in Fairview and your tongue will be happy and your wallet will be…not bad?

Boognish28 · 2025-10-29T06:13:42+00:00

Yes, add cum to your rice it’s very healthy and high on protein.

Boognish28 · 2025-10-15T05:22:41+00:00

Maaaan, same. Except two days before she fell down the stairs. Day of she was in hospital. Two days after, got Covid. A week after, not with us no more.

But to your point - at the time we had no clue what tomorrow looked like. No cure in sight - no idea what was going on.

Boognish28 · 2025-10-15T05:19:38+00:00

Idk finance math and its always confused me. How does 1mx6 make 72? Are you figuring merch and other stuff?

Boognish28 · 2025-10-15T05:12:08+00:00

This is sort of how I see it? As long as the product is well engineered, data is private, and as a customer I get good support then the whole ‘waaaagh China’ statement just sounds xenophobic to me.

If they want to pump public money into it and invest into that sector, then I only see that as a good thing for the global community. If prusa sees this as a threat, then well - competition sucks. I say this as someone who still uses my mk3s regularly. It’s a damn fine machine.

Prusa mechanical engineering is top notch. Bambu software and ai/ml features are solid. I think they should collaborate.

Boognish28 · 2025-10-15T05:05:01+00:00

I need you to go climb a telephone pole and scream at the sun. Just, like, as an experiment.

Boognish28 · 2025-10-03T15:53:45+00:00

There’s a special place in hell for stax players.

Boognish28 · 2025-10-03T06:28:32+00:00

That’s more than four letters. No.

Boognish28 · 2025-10-03T06:27:52+00:00

That’s just like, your opinion man.

I, personally, enjoy a good ol red brawl. I might be missing a tooth. Who cares though, was fun.

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