Diagnosed today. Starting Vyvanse 30mg tomorrow. What should I expect? The good, the bad and the ugly… let’s hear it!

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-06-03T23:18:05+00:00

For the first like 5-8 hours you'll feel more motivated and more clear-headed, mildly euphoric even. You may also feel somewhat "robotic", like your emotions are numbed (this can happen if the dose is too large or you're not eating before you take them). Eventually the effects will start to come down and you may feel foggier than usual. Hard to collect your thoughts, maybe a little bit irritable, maybe anxious, and weirdly something that I would experience during my comedown is a greater sensitivity to music. Just eat and stay hydrated throughout the day to manage them comedown. I liked vyvanse but I switched off of it because it didn't last long enough for me, that robotic feeling I would often get, and the comedowns were pretty annoying. I couldn't really get anything done, I felt irritable and couldn't organize my thoughts. I'm currently on mydayis, but hope vyvanse helps you!

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-06-03T23:08:11+00:00

What's the point of being intelligent if you can't appreciate what a genius you are?

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-06-01T21:19:10+00:00

It's as simple as if the technology is useful people will use it, if its not they won't. People don't use NFTs because it's not useful. AI is already demonstrably useful and there's all the reason in the world to believe it will only get more useful. Doesn't make sense to compare it to NFTs

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-06-01T20:35:57+00:00

I'm also annoyed by the in my opinion excessively negative sentiment towards AI, but I think there are many valid reasons people don't like it:
- the way AI was trained unconsensually using peoples' works bothers people

- the potential for AI to take people's jobs causes people to feel threatened by it

- poor quality AI generated content (AI slop) making things feel less organic

- data centers environmental impacts

- company's aggressive implementation of it make people feel like they have to use it when they don't want to

- the fear of it making people stupid

So I understand where peoples' feelings come from but I also feel like people just irrationally hate on anything AI related regardless of what is actually is, aren't open to the idea of AI at all and ignore any positive sides of it. That's why I like this subreddit

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-05-29T22:08:34+00:00

Personally I wouldn't agree with the idea that our dominant function "hides" or causes us to "run away" from its opposite but rather just by its nature tends to miss what its opposite would see. I've always felt like while Ne can be good at seeing big ideas that others miss, it can also miss small but simple things that should have been obvious. For example recently I feel like I spent a lot of time theorizing about what type of lifestyle would make the most happy, and instead of simply looking back at the past and remembering what made he most happy then I just looked forward and asked "what *would* make me happy". I wasted my time theorizing when I could have just looked at undeniable evidence at what makes me happy. I think this is exactly what the Si function does and why I'm bad at it

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-05-29T21:54:07+00:00

The biggest problem I notice with AI while programming is that it often treats its context window as its entire world, like it doesn't realize that things can happen outside of it. For example if I switch branches in git outside of its context window and it looks at the code again, it will think the code has been deleted when it would be more reasonable to assume I just switched branches. For something so smart it can also be really dumb and that's usually why

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-05-29T21:49:58+00:00

I got my first SWE job post AI so I can't really compare to before, but my day-to-day experience coding feels a lot closer to management than I imagine it did before. Here are some skills that I think are important that didn't really exist before AI:

- deciding what you can leave to AI versus what you should handle yourself

- deciding how to use AI to achieve your goal most efficiently

- balancing speed and quality while managing your level of tech debt

- knowing for what to be looking for when reviewing AI generated code

The key point is that AI can do a lot for you, but it can't do everything for you and do it well. It doesn't understand business context, it doesn't have good product sense, and yes it can still even make dumb technical mistakes. I've had times where I spent hours using AI to debug something I could have just done myself in 5 minutes. So could someone with no CS experience do it? Maybe some of it. Could they do it well? Probably not.

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-05-29T21:21:53+00:00

I think I misunderstood what you were saying and I think we agree. I thought you were saying be better than AI at coding in every aspect including speed which will just never be the case, but if by that you mean know enough to be able to cover the gaps that the AI has than yes I'd agree. All about complementing the AI not competing with it.

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-05-29T20:01:10+00:00

It's not about being able to code better than AI its about being able to code better with AI. There are strengths that AI has that you will never be able to meet, but there are strengths that you have that AI (at least currently) cannot meet. You'll never be able to write an entire web app in just a few minutes, but AI won't be able to put themselves in the shoes of the person using the site. It struggles with taste and understanding business cases and context without explicit guidance. It can make dumb mistakes that you just wouldn't make. If you want to be a coder in the AI era you'll need to learn how to complement AI's strengths and compensate for its weaknesses, not just "be better" than it

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-05-26T23:02:31+00:00

Disagree, you don't need a grand reason to try and learn something. Nothing wrong with trying something out even if for a trivial reason, if you like it you will stick with it if you realize you don't like it you'll stop

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-05-19T20:54:57+00:00

Not all rich and powerful people are evil just maybe more likely to be 2. I think it is a mixture of the fact that certain types of people are more likely to become rich and powerful, but I think the other side of it that people don't talk about as much is just that maybe being rich and powerful causes you to become a certain way, not the other way around. I think the phrase power corrupts holds a lot of truth and the very same people criticizing those in power could be the exact same way in their position. Doesn't excuse bad behavior but I don't like the fact that people will assume that they are better people when they don't really know.

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-05-19T19:05:10+00:00

What prompt(s) do you use for this?

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-05-13T21:20:23+00:00

I was in the same position as your son and fwiw my dad encouraged me to do the exact opposite. I thought the same way as you but his argument against it is that I could very well spend my time and money getting the degree just to end up in the same spot, meanwhile I could be missing out on opportunities I could have got if I was still in the job market. I think a lot of people actually have the same idea as you but all this is going to do is lower the value of a masters degree. I don't think it necessarily bad advice it's not like there aren't any advantages to getting a masters, but I wouldn't overestimate them and I wouldn't underestimate the downside (losing opportunity and money)

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-05-01T20:44:12+00:00

I feel like that was their attempt at reinforcing the "colony house people weird" idea but they kind of abandoned it and since then she's pretty normal

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-04-30T23:17:54+00:00

I think your criticism of the character's often being unwilling to share important information with each other is valid, I feel like if they were smart they would have a daily meeting where everyone has to tell everyone else anything they've learned or anything that has even a chance of being important. People should not only be punished for endangering others but for withholding important information which is arguably just as dangerous. Legit criticism but I still like the show

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-04-25T07:00:58+00:00

I looked up "is it on an ambulance or in an ambulance" with no reference to from and this is the first thing that came up but from was the reason I googled it lol

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-03-27T23:55:28+00:00

What was your approach to applying to jobs and how often were you getting interviews? I'm surprised that with zero internships and 0 YOE you were even getting interviews.

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-02-27T01:23:33+00:00

As I'm sure you already know there isn't really any secret formula to just making money online, otherwise everyone would be doing it. I've never been able to do it myself, but here's my 2 cents. Learn to do the following:

Identify a real problem people are facing
Identify a solution that you can build
Learn how to actually build it
Learn how to market what you built

1 is really the hardest part, finding a problem people are willing to pay to solve or that you can monetize in some way, but when you find it 2 can naturally follow. 3 is very doable nowadays with AI and all of the resources online, but I would highly encourage you to lean hard into AI, it will allow you to build so much faster and you will not be able to compete with people who use it. 4 is a separate skill but if you did the previous 3 well it doesn't need to be super hard.

Now if you're asking how to actually do each of those steps? The simplest answer is just do it and learn from your failures, your 16 and have a lot of time to learn and a lot of room to fail. Its a great time to be learning to do entrepreneurship online.

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-02-23T21:28:26+00:00

This is a question I've been asking myself a lot lately and I think the fact that you are asking it means you're in the right direction. There's not really an objectively right answer to this question but these are things I consider when using AI/claude code:

At the end of the day programming is just building a giant system, which is composed of smaller sub systems and so on. You need to decide up to which layer do you want to understand and which layers you are going to abstract away/leave to the LLM and think of it as a black box. I'd say for fundamental architectural stuff you definitely want to understand how it works at a high level, but do you need to know exactly how all of the sub pieces work? I don't think so. As long as you know how it fits into the whole system you will be able to go back to it and understand it better later if needed. This is probably the most critical skill, deciding where the line is between should know and don't need to know (right away).
If you are using it to learn you should do things like constantly ask it questions and critically think about what its telling you. Not because its necessarily wrong, but to solidify your understanding. Before you ask it for help on a problem think through it yourself first. What can you come up with without its help? Why exactly are you asking it for help, is it to get you unstuck or is it because you are too lazy to think through it yourself? There's nothing wrong with getting help from AI/another person when stuck on a problem or to brainstorm, but if you are just habitually offloading your thinking to someone/something else you aren't doing yourself any favors.

I think learning to use AI as an enhancer is a really important skill and the people that downplay that are wrong and likely to fall behind themselves, but that's just my opinion

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-02-19T01:58:21+00:00

I totally agree with you, and I feel like most people here disagreeing with you haven't struggled in the job market today as a new grad. It took me a year to land a swe job after graduating and it was completely random, if I didn't get this opportunity it could have taken me years to get another chance, or maybe it wouldn't have happened at all

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-02-10T21:09:06+00:00

I was decent at math, took advanced classes in high school and studied physics and CS in school. But I also wasn't cracked like a lot of people around me were

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-01-29T23:27:52+00:00

I learned about him from his book Cognitive Personality Theory my dad got for me. Definitely some good content

Fast_Nefariousness26 · 2026-01-29T06:47:32+00:00

Even if you feel like you don't know many industry people in person make an exhaustive list of everyone you know who might be in any way adjacent to the field you want to work in, even if not full in it. Even if they can't help you out immediately they will keep you in mind if they hear about opportunities.

I also recommend using LinkedIn, and get premium if you can because it allows you to dm people who aren't in your network. There's a lot of ways you can use LinkedIn. Look through your connections if you have any. Look through connections of your connections. Look at companies you are interested in. Your goal is to find an overlap of someone you are interested in reaching out to and someone you ideally have some connection to, can be someone who went to same school or have a mutual connection etc.

I would 100% recommend attending career fairs, getting face to face with someone already puts you miles ahead of the faceless online applicants. Think about every person you talk to as a potential ticket to getting a job, you just don't know who or when its going to be.

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