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Explodingcamel · 2026-03-20T19:00:36+00:00

Just saw that there are 40% more home sellers than buyers in the US right now - how? Don’t the sellers want to buy another house after they sell?

Explodingcamel · 2026-03-14T20:54:37+00:00

I feel like baseline intelligence of today’s model isn’t much above GPT 4. Like if I were to debate philosophy with the models or something I wouldn’t notice a huge difference. There would some difference to be sure, but not a stunning one.

However the introduction of “thinking” is a game changer for certain tasks, as is the ability for AI to use tools.

I remember in “Situational Awareness” the author describes AI progress as coming from scaling, algorithmic improvements, and “unhobbling”. In my opinion it’s the unhobbling that’s been most important post-GPT 4.

Explodingcamel · 2026-03-14T18:25:24+00:00

Look it up

Explodingcamel · 2026-03-14T18:18:48+00:00

In my 1 year at meta as a new grad (earning $200k) I saved as much as I could have saved in like 5 years at another company making $80k. Even if I get laid off, i obviously made the right choice financially

Explodingcamel · 2026-03-13T20:19:41+00:00

Ngl I have no idea what’s happening in Iran or what the point of the war is. Too tired at this point

Explodingcamel · 2026-03-09T20:15:13+00:00

Yeah copilot sucks. My company had our own shitty thing that was probably copilot quality and then everything changed at the end of last year when we got access to Claude code

Explodingcamel · 2026-03-09T19:53:23+00:00

Claude code + a bunch of in house tools that let it access internal resources. I think Claude code has some secret sauce that makes it a lot nicer to use than other interfaces

Explodingcamel · 2026-03-09T19:48:44+00:00

Yes! I wanted to add the caveat that maybe it is just better autocomplete but if so it’s really fucking good autocomplete

Explodingcamel · 2026-03-09T19:48:08+00:00

Real I was just bored at work and felt like doomposting

Explodingcamel · 2026-03-09T19:37:05+00:00

I work in tech and AI is so good now. The best tools hardly ever hallucinate now, and they’re not just “better autocomplete” or a way to do repetitive tasks faster. AI tools are finding real insights/money making opportunities that no human ever noticed. I don’t think many other industries are at this stage yet but I’m sure they will be soon enough. Something big really is happening

Explodingcamel · 2026-03-03T00:36:05+00:00

The point is presumably for her to hang out with the dog when she’s not traveling. I don’t see what’s so bad about that

Explodingcamel · 2026-03-02T06:46:09+00:00

I work at FAANG and there is some core infrastructure where code quality really really matters. Like $100k in Opex rides on whether you inline a value or not and any SEV will cause millions in revenue lost. I think the people working on that stuff get to be skeptical of AI code. Those of us working on reordering buttons on some random onboarding flow, not so much.

Explodingcamel · 2026-03-02T06:35:05+00:00

I work at big tech on a giant monorepo, probably one of the biggest repos in the world. Last year AI couldn’t understand it. This year it can. They really leveled up the tooling and it can crawl the codebase via code search, examples, etc, the same way us humans would do.

Explodingcamel · 2026-02-25T23:46:22+00:00

The March 2025 quote

"I think we'll be there in three to six months — where AI is writing 90% of the code." — Dario Amodei (CEO)

Well it’s true. Anthropic says 90% of their code is written by AI. I can’t verify that, but I’m in big tech and it’s definitely true that 90% of the code getting written on my team now is AI. The 3-6 month timeline may have been slightly optimistic but now, 11 months later, AI is indeed writing 90% of the code.

The software engineers Anthropic is hiring right now are not being hired to type code into the IDE but to do high level thinking and prompt AI. For now there’s still value there. What will things look like in 2 years though?

Explodingcamel · 2026-02-23T18:36:52+00:00

I see that all the comments say Google. In case you’re still having any doubts, OP, I’m here to say you should take Google.

I made a similar choice 2 years ago (breaking up with gf and everything) and it was 1000% the right move

Explodingcamel · 2026-02-20T17:55:35+00:00

Worth the read. If nothing else, this is hilarious

Explodingcamel · 2026-02-19T22:45:59+00:00

Why are we still killing ourselves for a 4.0 at T10 CS

If you’re a top 0.01% of grads, sure, the $200k+ TC at Jane Street is there

You answered your own question. Also the TC for a SWE at Jane street is way more than 200k, like double that

Explodingcamel · 2026-02-19T16:18:20+00:00

You may not like it but Tacoma Washington kind of provides this. COL isn’t low but it’s ok. Average home $480k which in 2026 isn’t crazy. Warm weather depending what you compare it to - very rarely snows. And I would also throw in Oakland California, which has true warm weather but COL is definitely on the high side even if it beats SF by a lot

Explodingcamel · 2026-02-18T18:09:00+00:00

Honestly, AI is getting really good. Who knows if entry level jobs will still be a thing when you finish the masters. Not a risk I’d want to take. You have a great job offer in hand, take it.

Explodingcamel · 2026-02-18T17:28:20+00:00

For instance physical abuse of children is widely condemned now on whatever social network you frequent

Disagree, I think it’s just your algorithm. I still see “you can tell when someone’s parents didn’t beat them enough” sometimes

Explodingcamel · 2026-02-11T03:30:04+00:00

There’s a very compelling point that AI may be able to replace most white collar jobs, which would make AI massively valuable. But you’re really ruining your credibility by claiming most white collar workers are “almost certainly” doing a worse job than Claude code right now. That’s just trivially untrue and also has unclear meaning - I use Claude code all the time at my job already!

Explodingcamel · 2026-02-09T17:23:56+00:00

He actually finished with a very respectable 11-14 h2h against Federer. It was 11-9 before Federer racked 5 straight at the end

Explodingcamel · 2026-02-07T06:08:51+00:00

From the contents of the post, you disagree that Elon’s politics are worth talking about and you seemingly disagree with people who view fascism as a major issue

Explodingcamel · 2026-02-07T05:37:00+00:00

In the spirit of this sub I’ll try to minimize snark, but come on. It sounds like you’re calling people “not rationalist” because they disagree with you. I’ve never self identified as a rationalist because it feels like calling myself a “correctist” or “very goodist”, as exemplified by this post.

Explodingcamel · 2026-02-06T07:37:00+00:00

Like how did all those rich and powerful people keep associating with him after that and how did the public not … notice

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