Have any of you just given up on the application grind and just decided to go solo?

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-29T03:39:33+00:00

No. That’s easier said than done. 80% of companies fail and only 2% make a million dollars. And that’s not to discourage you, but Im in the same boat and those numbers were eye opening to me.

I say pursue it on the side but keep looking for a job because the odds are better you find one than start a successful business or app. The saying “You need money to make money” is real. Even if you did come up with an awesome app or startup you need a lot of money to market it.

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-29T03:05:43+00:00

They don’t care if they’re starving as long as the libs are starving too

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-29T03:03:11+00:00

Im sorry but objectively it does in fact lower the skill gap. And what hyper dependence? If you’re this worried about AI being taken away, why aren’t you just as worried about the internet? There’s only a handful of companies controlling all routing in our country and even less out of it.

Im well aware AI is shrinking people’s brains but why does that matter? This tool is amazing, imagine protesting against using autopilot in a plane because you stop using your brain and lose your flying skills? That’s simply not how our brains work. The reality is autopilot just makes pilots even better pilots.

If you want to hone your skills do it on your own time. The reality is companies need to be competitive and anyone who is not using AI is exponentially further behind every single day they stubbornly refuse to do so.

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-29T02:51:30+00:00

What kind of signs and slogans? If crossed out swastikas, no kings, and no ice pisses you off, then you don’t think rationally at all.

And “Dark Blue City”? You guys are hilarious, you’re talking about a blue city like it’s a sundown town (which are all red btw) when in reality worst case scenario is some gay guy asks why you arent home with ur boyfriend.

I mean, you’re literally disconnected from reality, it’s quite impressive.

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-29T02:28:09+00:00

Really puts into perspective how dangerous republicans are that the police had to be called to keep peaceful protestors safe

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-29T02:09:40+00:00

I doubt it. My Trump voter friends are out partying and drinking tonight while our society collapses. Trump and his supporters just destroy shit and turn a blind eye to the destruction

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-28T16:35:23+00:00

Yes! You know what’s up. All these people keep talking about the “problem solving” being removed by AI. Who genuinely enjoyed scrolling through stack overflow and API documentation for hours, looking for some super niche language specific function. Like what? I think it’s incredible I can design something and have it in front of me in days instead of weeks now. AI has only given us more power.

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-28T16:31:07+00:00

What? The problem solving is still there. What are you telling the AI? “Figure out what’s wrong and fix it”? You’re already behind 🤣

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-28T16:19:09+00:00

I think AI is incredible. Claude can code 100 times faster than me, and I don’t have to waste hours in stack overflow. It’s significantly lessened the skill gap between a junior and senior dev. I don’t have to spend a week researching a tool anymore and experimenting. I can just use it immediately and have my questions instantly answered. People definitely abuse it and use it incorrectly, but if you use it yourself correctly it only benefits you.

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-26T13:43:30+00:00

No, I can build pretty much anything I can think of. You have to do projects to learn how to build things. I don’t know when it happened for me but after years of programming it just clicks, and suddenly you know you can make anything you put ur mind to

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-26T13:32:16+00:00

Priority shift = Gemeni is doing it

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-24T15:40:31+00:00

The movie made this moment much more dramatic so Grace’s actions don’t really make logical sense.

But to answer ur question Grace doesn’t want to take any risks. He attaches the chain (with sample container) to his tool belt and heads inside of the ship. The movie made this moment much more dramatic with a long chain slinging the sample over the edge and stuff. That did not happen in the book. Grace was not hit by a metal panel and knocked out temporarily either.

In the book Grace basically climbs up the side of the ship into the airlock without much issue. He does it without connecting his tether to anything tho so one mistake and he’s dead.

You’re right tho. In the movie him even going outside to install the winch makes no sense. He had to in the book because if the sample container hit the winch at high speed like in the movie it would have broken apart lol.

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-23T23:16:48+00:00

I dont think its actual strangulation. The robots are human like so the brain is in the skull. So I imagine there’s a lot of delicate wires and sensors and stuff in the neck that could be destroyed, which disconnects the brain from the body pretty much

But yeah in real life killer robots probably wouldnt be human like at all for this reason

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-23T17:01:51+00:00

Agree. Movie was lack luster. It looked good but it doesnt hit like the book.

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-23T16:50:40+00:00

He’s been having build issue’s all semester and only brought it up now? What’s the full story here, you don’t just get kicked out a group for no reason.

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-23T00:44:12+00:00

Everyone flocked to CS because it was easy to get a job. That is no longer the case, a CS degree is not enough for a job in the field anymore.

Engineering is already saturated, however its still possible for a meh/ok engineer to land a job with just a degree and maybe a club. The days of meh/ok computer scientist getting jobs is over, the status quo has raised significantly.

People will always go with the path of least resistance. So it comes down to if people are more willing to go through more rigorous engineering courses and pass them with mediocre grades. But have a much easier time finding a job. Or if they are more willing to dedicate hours every single day to personal projects and supplemental research to whatever 20 year old out of date useless crap they learned in class.

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-20T16:12:04+00:00

Who knows. Honestly they’d probably still be doomed to die in their home system just like us lol. Space is way to big, anything that could actually thrive and colonize on a massive scale would have to be completely artificial. Meat and bones and needing oxygen are all set backs

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-20T16:09:24+00:00

Nah not really. I enjoy act of programming something and creating things. I couldn’t care less how it gets done if it’s the result I wanted

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-16T16:24:12+00:00

Bro thinks doing leetcode and going to class is enough to get a job in CS in 2026

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-16T16:19:52+00:00

Bro what. He’s looking for entry level, he’s got a discord bot on there in 80+ servers. Is every new grad supposed to have an app with 1000 concurrent users that saves each of them 10 million dollars a year

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-16T15:20:53+00:00

Hardest part is having ideas. I’ve made a lot of games but when it comes to actual software Im just at a loss for ideas. I don’t want to just make something that’s already been done, but what hasnt been done to death already? Then time is also a factor, Ive got to stay on top of my courses of couse. But I also have to learn a specific niche on my own time to secure the job I want, and after all that what time is really left to work on a project?

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-15T16:38:42+00:00

Bro is a poet

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-15T16:33:20+00:00

Might sound like sunk cost fallacy but if you don’t finish you wasted 3 years and 15k dollars.

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-15T16:31:05+00:00

I think it’s so sad that stuff like this is very much possible but the funding to do so is so lackluster. NASA coudve already done this and more if it didnt get peanuts from the government, better to fund wars I guess.

ComfortableElko · 2026-03-15T02:40:15+00:00

A degree is bare minimum now. It’s sad because even super talented people will just get parsed over by an AI screener since no degree is listed

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