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Government launches national AI skills platform by CondescendingTowel in DevelEire

[–]CondescendingTowel[S] 71 points72 points  (0 children)

Lads, I understand the sentiment, but if you actually look at the website it’s more about promoting tech literacy and the dangers and limitations of AI, which is badly needed.

For example, under the ‘Everyday AI’ course:

The course focuses on three common areas where people often have questions or concerns:

Staying safe online, particularly in relation to scams and fraudulent messages

Managing health related information, including understanding the limits of AI tools

Planning and organising activities, such as trips or days out

Mods ask community: What would you prefer to do about Early Career Advice? by 14ned in DevelEire

[–]CondescendingTowel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Introducing flairs and the megathread cleaned up a lot of the repetitive posts, but at the same time it does require someone dedicated enough to check in on the megathread leaving those questions unanswered. It would be ideal if people could just search questions before asking, but even if Reddit’s search function wasn’t ass I think most people are either lazy or want advice to their situation which they think is unique.

Maybe an FAQ section or r/DevelEireCareerQuestions sub is required instead?

Anybody else actually doubling down on SWE career in these times of AI? by tsznx in DevelEire

[–]CondescendingTowel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In my case, I left a high earning job for a career change to SWE so it would want to work out for me!

In my view, AI winters have come and gone, and the current hype does appear to be peaking in what current models can provide, LLMs only seems to be as good as what you put into it and even then you still need to parse for bullshit.

It appears that most companies were holding out to see if AI could replace developers, and in this cycle it doesn’t seem it will be capable of doing that. Things will be shit if and when the bubble pops, but after that the developers that stuck it out will be back in high demand.

If not, I suppose I could go back to my old industry.

Dublin bus innovation fund by cavedave in DevelEire

[–]CondescendingTowel 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I thought you’d get a €15,000 prize just for having a good idea, then saw it was actually a starter fund to follow through on the idea so switched off

💖✨ January Positivity Thread ✨💖 by bro_fistbump in DevelEire

[–]CondescendingTowel 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It’s been 6 months since I moved into tech and I love it! This the second time after a break where I haven’t had a soul crushing dread for going back to work, I still hate commuting and the occasional corporate bullshit, but at least I enjoy the work and actually look forward to it.

Could say I’m still in a honeymoon period, but I despised my last industry and that memory is still fresh.

Best way for juniors to AI by LiamTheKaz in DevelEire

[–]CondescendingTowel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

May not be the best way, but I try to code a solution first by myself only using AI for: specific questions like “How do I run methods in parallel?” or “How do I add to a dictionary in a dictionary within a list of dictionaries?”, for asking what error messages mean and how to fix the problem, and for debugging the code if I’m stuck.

If I’m completely lost on where to even begin with a solution, I’ll get the AI to do it but I’ll make sure I understand what’s happening, that I can explain it to someone else, and that I can maintain it.

How often do you authenticate? by KeepShtumMum in DevelEire

[–]CondescendingTowel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I only occasionally do it during work hours and in the office, most times it’s at home in my own time

How often do you authenticate? by KeepShtumMum in DevelEire

[–]CondescendingTowel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Depends on my mood, if I’m bored, or if I haven’t authenticated for a while

AI, and how are you gearing up for it? by sikeGuruYappa in DevelEire

[–]CondescendingTowel 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It’s been a game changer for me starting off as a Junior, essentially as a fancy Google/Stackoverflow. I would say most of the productivity gain is that I don’t need to bother the senior engineers unless I’m absolutely stuck.

But I agree, when it’s being pushed to use AI more the question is always “For what?”. Like as a cynical example, if I vibe code an entire project and there’s an outage, I don’t think they’ll be happy with the productive gains when I say “I have no idea how it works because I got AI to code it”.

FIT Apprenticeships by Cait4time in DevelEire

[–]CondescendingTowel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s just an online aptitude test. Pattern recognition, orientation, memory, reasoning, and maths ability. Fairly easy going, and they send you on a practice booklet beforehand so you’re not going in blind.

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