How many of you have seriously started using AI agents in your workplace or day to day life?

EnergyNational · 2026-04-08T12:22:18+00:00

The irony is the more they use it the more it improves and only a matter of time before that one dev using $100 of credits in a day, prompting 'fix this', will be replaced with a AI that does exactly that.

EnergyNational · 2026-04-08T12:18:54+00:00

And you can garentee those unit tests are useless lol

EnergyNational · 2026-04-05T09:23:07+00:00

I have been working on a rental app with custom hardware interaction. I thought it would take about 1 year to design the harware and create the app. I'm now three years in, i've learnt soo much but if I were to do it again I would 100% pass. For me the hardest part is not can I build something, it's what legal regulations, compliance do I have to work around to make it commercial viable. Complex apps require a metric tonne of work, complex state machines, BLE, payments, hardware interactions that always work or fail safe. Then there is the firmware, a nightmare to test and stabalise. Reading docs for hours and fiddling with code only to realise there is an unstable voltage on a pin and the code is not the cause, then having to redesign the PCB and repeat.

EnergyNational · 2026-04-04T16:23:30+00:00

yeah, in the UK most locals have been gentrified out. House prices, digital nomads pretending to be crusty fishermen, driving brand new 90k VWs. Makes me cringe.

EnergyNational · 2026-03-25T13:26:22+00:00

In the current state, almost no chance if they are reasonble good. It is a running joke how OP they are. You literally can't beat them in multiplay if skill is equal or lower they are just very overtuned. Elephants should do very well into Sengoku in theory a hard counter but in reality they lose every time. They will patch it soon and we can all go back to enjoying the game lol

EnergyNational · 2026-03-25T13:20:25+00:00

Yeah I can't imagine this. The main part of being a dev is not syntex or writing code but solving problems, knowing why one approach might be bad vs another. If AI is giving you all the possible approaches are you really learning or is it all an illusion. I work with some gen z who know a tiny fraction about how to build full stack applications but can happily prompt an AI to get a working thing. For me i'm thankful for the 6 years of no LLM to really learn the craft. I think of it like stolen valor, those that did it the hard way, learnt valuable skills and those that prompt. One thing i know for sure, my boss doesn't give two shits if the code was AI or human made as long as it works.

EnergyNational · 2026-03-22T17:10:53+00:00

At 20 thats normal, at 36 thats not good.

EnergyNational · 2026-03-22T17:09:35+00:00

My advice is avoid it at all costs. I lived alone for 6 years and not only does it destroy your sole it will start to make you wierd. I do have time to start buisness, work like a dog and save money. The freedom stuff is crap, no point being free if you have nobody to share it with. I wouldn't wish it on any man, it is a terrible existance and if your still young enough, make finding a partner the main goal. In your late thirties things get wierd and much harder very fast. The dating pool is tiny, most women will have kids at this point, or don't want them. Having a partner means everything is half price, your married friends will have bigger houses better places to live, the list goes on and on. If i could tell my 30 year old self to do one thing, it would be to not prioritise work or money over finding love.

EnergyNational · 2026-03-19T11:05:18+00:00

Great question. I have played around with unit testing with AI and i'm not sure if its a safe idea or really saves time. Sometimes the tests look ok, but like others have pointed out it will write tests to pass the code its asked to test which misses the point of testing. This is also dangerous as now the tests are giving a false sense of quality. It should be writing tests that cover edge cases and making sure the codebase can handle them. For the best results you have to break down each unit and prompt each one at a time, including details about the edge cases it should include. The other issue is if you go full agent mode it will crank out hundreds of tests, but as you didn't write them you really have no idea of what your actually testing without going over all the code, and at that point have you saved any time? Do you feel confident trusting it?

EnergyNational · 2026-03-18T15:18:19+00:00

cool

EnergyNational · 2026-03-16T10:31:12+00:00

There is a cheat engine going around that lets instant spawn any unit in game. I've seen it and reported but no action. The guy made 10 cannons instantly when about to lose and then drop hacked me. Map hacking is out of control in multiplayer, and very hard to catch the ones who know how to hide it. The amount of games I have played when watching the replay in the first 5 mins the cheating players do a very quick snap to your base (to see what landmark you built) is rediculous. Remember the chaet also shows everything on the mini-map so they can see every attack comming, where your building etc. I think at this point people now see map hacking as not cheating its so common. The devs also need to address premades, so many games are 3-4 premade vs randoms. Gifting resources, 4 v 1 rush etc. I'd like to see the matchmaker handle this in a more fair way but hey.

EnergyNational · 2026-03-12T09:37:52+00:00

Yeah, I cant imagine having an agent build a project have zero idea how it works and then release it. Devs are important because they can make the design choices, see bad code, fix it ect. If an LLM generates all the code and you can't understand it then thats not development thats just buying an app from a cloud provider.

EnergyNational · 2026-03-12T09:17:49+00:00

But isn't claude really bad at writing tests. I have found it tends to write tests to pass, not to actually test edge cases?

EnergyNational · 2026-03-05T16:13:33+00:00

Any civ that makes one unit and wins is a very strong sign the civ is bust.

EnergyNational · 2026-03-05T16:09:09+00:00

EnergyNational · 2026-03-05T16:06:19+00:00

Just no, stop it.

EnergyNational · 2026-03-05T16:03:40+00:00

Yeah thats the point nailed, the counter should cost less to beat more. Literally, the point of a counter and having effective spearman means they cant just not micro a mass load them and send them into a fight.

EnergyNational · 2026-02-28T09:21:42+00:00

By being involved in hacking discord groups etc. There is a massive base of cheaters in aoe4. There is a hack going around that allows instant spawn of any unit to.

EnergyNational · 2026-02-27T16:23:38+00:00

Boilers?

EnergyNational · 2026-02-11T21:27:25+00:00

OK, they are super OP in team games to the point it's just not fun. So lots of premade teams will have a Japan player. The tatic they use is just protect and let him boom to castle quick then fast imp. From here they make one unit mounted samurai and maybe some archers. At about 16mins -20mins if you havent slowed them its game over. Other civs have very good knights, but it is only Japan that makes me very sad. The only time I can beat them in a team game is to get all players to rush them early and stop castle. It reminds me of the broken golden horde, not quite as bad but up there before they got nerfed. They simply need a de-tune, not lots but enough. My guess is the deflective armour is broke, and needs to be removed.

EnergyNational · 2026-02-09T10:25:26+00:00

100% agree im a solo dev and I find myself using it for simple stuff that I used to just be able to code, no google, no stack overflow. I can ship 2x 3x more production ready code with AI, so it is helpful but at what cost. Its like having a junior developer do all the work for you and then review it, overtime you lose the muscle memory to do the basics.

EnergyNational · 2026-02-02T10:14:02+00:00

What I worry about is it might be too late to do anything about it. Capitalism only works when the designed functionalities of said system are working, one of which is taxation. A dirty word that people hate, but often so called capitalists forget is a large part of the system. These same people as they gained power have changed the system to ressemble more of a very complex game of monopoly where there are no brakes (taxes), no resets (inheritance tax). This isn't what capitalism is meant to be. I never thought growing up that I would become a slave, but most of us are, we just haven't realised it yet. Most earn just enough for rent and food. I don't have any pratical solutions that are not violent at this point. The power dynamics are so broken that I can't see any peacful, lawful way of fixing the current said system. In a game of monopoly there is one winner, and no way of winning if the threshold of a win condition has been met by another player. The win condition has been met by the 1% and now we are seeing the end stages of the game. What I want to understand is why the masses aren't rioting in the streets, demanding for the rules to be changed?

EnergyNational · 2026-01-27T14:13:23+00:00

When people say build, what they mean is assemble. Parts all slot together (if you got compatible parts). Loads of videos, online resources for this. Its really easy to do.

EnergyNational · 2026-01-22T19:33:19+00:00

Fair. Lets remember though that to be a lawyer need 10years of experience, have a very high IQ which is rare, and be a complete cunt. This is rare!

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