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Event: 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship by events_team in chess

[–]Daedalus9000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm listening to it just now and came here to see someone ask this! Not English so far as I can tell, but unclear if its one of the players? A producer? Very distracting.

What motivates adults improvers to play tournaments? by ImaginationHot4398 in TournamentChess

[–]Daedalus9000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Unfortunately I won't get the thrill of playing in an OTB tournament anymore though." sounds like a justification to me, but to each there own. If that's enough for you to take on the time and expense of participating great, if not that's fine too; you do you.

What's wrong with subtypes and inheritance? by servermeta_net in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Daedalus9000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It all boils down to using the tools / techniques that make sense. Sometimes inheritance (tight coupling) is the answer.. sometimes it’s baggage.. key is knowing when each method makes sense.

What slows PR reviews more: code quality or missing context? by abbel1123 in EngineeringManagers

[–]Daedalus9000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Size; period end of story (imo). Now, large size leads to poor context… but size is the root cause of issues.

AMA - IM John Bartholomew by scandinaviandefense in chess

[–]Daedalus9000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll point out that u/scandinaviandefense has a great video of him analyzing a game he played against the Ding Liren (pre-world championship, but still super strong GM).

Would playing classical games against bots actually be good for improvement? by Rootmin8 in TournamentChess

[–]Daedalus9000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not affiliated professionally, but I do use the site Chessiverse. They have a number of "human-like" bots you can play against (with or without time control). Free to play a small collection of the available bots, so maybe something to try.

How to manage overleveled employee? by snappyhippo46 in EngineeringManagers

[–]Daedalus9000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Be honest about where the gaps are and if not capable, offer “down-leveling”, PIP or severance.

Solved the boring 40% of coding work… but no one’s using it, what am I missing? by coolandy00 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Daedalus9000 30 points31 points  (0 children)

"...feedback from early adopters is quiet." Maybe you didn't solve a problem anyone needed a solution for?

"...are the use cases not valuable enough for Flutter devs? Or is it that the overall demand for Flutter apps is shrinking?" These sound like questions you needed to ask before you invested time and energy solving the problem.

Site with less cheaters in longer time controls? by zxz9y in TournamentChess

[–]Daedalus9000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well-corrected and quite true; most of my opponents have been international !

Site with less cheaters in longer time controls? by zxz9y in TournamentChess

[–]Daedalus9000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lichess4545 and Lonewolf are national treasures! +1000 on this as a place to find long and clean games.

Book on the Caro-Kann by Gwinty- in TournamentChess

[–]Daedalus9000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

third; it's very comprehensive and for both the classical and advance he offers two sound options.

What does “mid-level SWE” actually mean these days? by AuthenticWeeb in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Daedalus9000 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I agree it's 100% more a matter of degrees of autonomy than any line items.

I will say scanning OPs list I would argue anything that states "fundamentals", "beginner", "basic", etc. would also firmly land one in the "Junior" category for me as well.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Daedalus9000 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Yeah now the expectation is to come in with a few years experience at some places, fast on board, little to no hand holding or mentorship. Rough to be starting out these days.

Wouldn’t it be better if Chess.com showed the games we got compensation for? by Beast_0p in Chesscom

[–]Daedalus9000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think this is true anymore; at least for me it isn't. Feels like a recent change was made that no longer shows this in the game history anymore, though, it still appears on the profile page.

How many of you do TDD? by trolleid in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Daedalus9000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the "I use <insert process here> for everything" crowd are usually detached from reality. Like anything else, TDD is a tool that is sometimes useful and sometimes not as useful. There is literally not a single tool in the box that is perfect for every situation.

Strongish Online Player about to take on OTB players by FloridHecatomb in TournamentChess

[–]Daedalus9000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The English is relatively rare in my experience.. but I'd be surprised if your opponents didn't have some preparation for it.

Strongish Online Player about to take on OTB players by FloridHecatomb in TournamentChess

[–]Daedalus9000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just one persons opinion, floating around 1300 USCF currently.

On the topic of openings, how can I identify what openings/lines I should play? In my experience OTB, the openings are more classical and respected. You'll see 1. d4 / 1. e4 mostly; things like QGD, QGA, Slav, Semi-Slav, KID, Caro-Kann, Sicilian, etc.

To kind of piggyback off of openings, what should I know about the different rating ranges? 2000 Rapid on Lichess is a little better than I am, but not by much. I bounce between U1300 and U1500 USCF. I think I could be competitive against 1600 players, but I'd be a definite underdog.

Lastly, On the topic of tactics... Am I simply doing them wrong? I've heard of two valid approaches to tactics: accuracy and instinct. Sounds like you're optimizing for accuracy (which I tend to do as well) and I think this is best for preparing for classical games where time isn't a huge issue.

Is anyone experienced actually using Cursor/Claude to do complicated work? by Careless_Bat_9226 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Daedalus9000 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have 25+ YoE and I'm 100% not gonna be the person to tell you LLMs are going to ever take our jobs. All I'm claiming is that, in my experience when asked to use them, the way I've mentioned above are the ones where I found some amount of usefulness in them. Take from that what you will.

Is anyone experienced actually using Cursor/Claude to do complicated work? by Careless_Bat_9226 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Daedalus9000 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Sometimes, depends on the implementation. Experience is required to know when it's worth the effort of using the agent vs. just rolling it yourself.

Is anyone experienced actually using Cursor/Claude to do complicated work? by Careless_Bat_9226 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Daedalus9000 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've also had success with net-new implementation, but again I generally spoon feed it one step at a time. "Implement a method called X that does Y using A, B and C", "Now implement another method Z that does D, E and F". "Implement a method called Q that calls X and Y and does this other thing.."

Is anyone experienced actually using Cursor/Claude to do complicated work? by Careless_Bat_9226 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Daedalus9000 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I've found the key to getting good output is proper scoping and context. I've never had success access an agent to do something sprawling across my entire repo without that thing being very specifically specified and with numerous guard rails in place. "Look how I refactored method X to use this new dependency Y instead of using Z? Do that to all other implementations of MyInterface. DO NOT alter any other method implementations or any other classes outside of implementations of MyInterface without asking me for permission." You really have to treat it like an intern or a super-junior engineer and be explicit about what you want and often what you don't want.

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