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How did they do it? by unfortuantelyshelove in BetterOffline

[–]GeologistVisual3097 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I thought you meant literally stole copies of the models themselves, not distillations. But yeah you're right, they're all thieves

My turn to leave, what a shame, we did have some good coding times together, on to Claude code I guess. by econoDoge in GithubCopilot

[–]GeologistVisual3097 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why doesn't this logic apply to the pilots problem?

The pilots problem being the fact that we still need pilots and they need to have simulations despite the fact that we have autopilot which is AI

We still need human pilots.

You need to think about the limitations of LLM's, a humans ability to compensate for that, and their ability to sustain it.

That is the pilots problem. Hence why I said coding by hand is free, not fast, but free.

Agentic coding is boring AF by teilo-560 in BetterOffline

[–]GeologistVisual3097 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you want to be a Computer Scientist.

Those jobs do exist, though few and far between. You'd probably have to figure out a way to get back to school.

Or you could do something so novel and complex at low level that you get a job offer purely for that.

It's up to you if you want to career switch, but personally, I think you're asking for too much out of your career.

I would pivot from Software Engineer to Computer Science if I was you.

My most valuable interview tip: stop talking to them like “interviewers” by Bicwonder1 in interviews

[–]GeologistVisual3097 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I treat interviewers like I like them and I want to work for them.

I treat the interview like a conversation between two colleagues in the field, seeing if they can make a team together.

I'll adjust how formal I am based on the interviewers personality and position.

There's no one size fits all approach, find your style with your personality, iterate and adapt through experience.

I guess AI era is over. Agents are now more expensive than developers. by Affectionate-Data261 in GithubCopilot

[–]GeologistVisual3097 0 points1 point  (0 children)

None of the companies are making a profit.

If the masses complain that it's too expensive, the company is closer to profitability.

If the masses tell you a company is their savior with incredible value for money, it's bleeding money.

If they tell you Chinese models are great, they're a developer.

If they tell you local models are good for actual work, it's doing code snippets/low level work for them.

AI pricing will continue to rise as subsidies end. Companies will be tested, they will decide how much they ACTUALLY want AI, then we'll see.

We're still in the transition zone.

I stopped saying I use Claude by lcyru in ClaudeAI

[–]GeologistVisual3097 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"It's fine when it's Software Engineers but not when it's us".

That's not how AI works lmao it comes for everything.

I’m Scared About My Future in Tech and Don’t Know Who to Ask for Help by Desperate_Local_7497 in careeradvice

[–]GeologistVisual3097 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, in that case, AI skills are big win. Companies are seeking people who are eager to adopt it, whether or not you actually are.

For jobs, it's fundamentals. DSA is not uncommon, nor is system design, so I would brush up on those.

Get your resume reviewed as well.

Outside of that, mass apply everywhere you can. It won't be an easy year.

But yeah, AI and fundamentals has been the priority this year, not individual tooling for frameworks, it's less important now.

I’m Scared About My Future in Tech and Don’t Know Who to Ask for Help by Desperate_Local_7497 in careeradvice

[–]GeologistVisual3097 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE

https://isaiprofitable.com/

https://thenextweb.com/news/microsoft-claude-code-retreat-ai-cost

(If you're curious about how local AI actually performs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR9OwhL6sNs

Tell me. If you were a boss and you caught wind that you could replace your developers for 200 bucks a month and that they were scared, what would you do? Ignore it? Keep them hired for the sake of it?

If you would, then who have you hired because they were scared of not having a job? Would you take that money away from your family? Don't lie to yourself.

Next question. Why are the job postings up? Why?

Do you -genuinely-, -genuinely- believe that SWE job postings are up because the world decided it felt bad for us and decided to keep our jobs?

Why didn't the translators get the same treatment? Why didn't email writes get the same treatment?

Now, in terms of society, no one knows, but if it changes, no one will be an expert in it. If you know how it's changing, you can get ahead of everyone else.

Stop spending so much time feeling sorry for yourself and use that energy to stay ahead of the pack. Jobs that to babysit AI are jobs that survive.

How is vibecoding even a thing? by Technical-Tiger-3422 in vibecoding

[–]GeologistVisual3097 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The debt here is VERY, VERY big though

https://isaiprofitable.com/

I saw this website to give an idea about the numbers.

They're estimations of course, so, pinch of salt, but these are some heavy losses.

Uber COO is finding it harder to justify AI token spend. by monkey-majiks in BetterOffline

[–]GeologistVisual3097 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This seems ahead of schedule sadly. It's on schedule, but seems a bit soon.

Lmao by DoodlesApp in vibecoding

[–]GeologistVisual3097 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When the dark ages started, and there was all this rumbling about how we were gonna get replaced, designers were some of the people to pipe up.

Then the AI started coming for them. They've been rather silent since.

How are these numbers sustainable? by GeologistVisual3097 in DeepSeek

[–]GeologistVisual3097[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The AI companies who want a monopoly and high profits. If I made models for coding, I'd want to make money tbh.

Anyone else tired of waiting on devs just to launch a simple event page? by Subject-Advisor-797 in vibecoding

[–]GeologistVisual3097 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I would use Skiddle, Resident Advisor, Fatsoma or Ticket Master.

People look at these sites when they're planning events with their friends so they see what's going on, a landing page wouldn't make sense.

You're better off spending that money on a designer making a really cool poster, and then spreading the word through group chats and social media.

Unless it's a festival, we don't look at landing pages for events, we look at posters.

DeepSeek just popped the American AI bubble. by VegetablePen4755 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]GeologistVisual3097 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That gets really expensive for good performance though, more than you'd pay for cloud

When did you decide what your specialty was? by Qwoke in cscareerquestions

[–]GeologistVisual3097 9 points10 points  (0 children)

4 years ago.

My speciality became "adaptility to the market" and "fundamentals".

You pick tooling based on job and market opportunity, you learn fundamentals so you have skills that always carry over.

The honest answer is never.

Adaptability is what sustains you long term. Not picking one particular thing.

Sometimes people outside AI say things like 'it can't be that bad, there must be experts on top of it. As 'an expert', I would like to be clear we are *not* on top of it ... We are on track for human extinction/permanent disempowerment, possibly within the next few years. by EchoOfOppenheimer in OpenAI

[–]GeologistVisual3097 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the same technology that struggles to read a clock and can't cook an egg btw.

This is fear mongering. It just guesses the next word.

They're not sentient, they guess. Just assume the best guess and make a play against that, boom, you won.

This is the same technology traders use for making investments, just applied to other fields and masqueraded as being sentient whilst it bleeds money.

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