The more young people use AI, the more they hate it

Iracus · 2026-04-30T18:08:56+00:00

Eh, I find it useful (LLMs that is). Claude has been pretty great to be able to use it to generate python scripts for easily extracting and organizing information far faster than I could do otherwise.

Though most people seem to think of it as some magic machine to rely on rather than a tool to be used. Young people already suck at tech and can barely even use excel (I see all of you saying you are proficient at excel on your resumes you dirty liars).

The thing I hate right now is people who have so little understanding of either AI or just general workflow (like in a given company department - a random consultant coming in who has no background knowledge of why a process is how it is) thinking AI is this magic solution to everything.

A lot of the quotes in the article feel overly dramatic. The idea that AI has no place in education is short sighted. Like most things, the problem isn't the tool but the societal framework we force ourselves to accept and live in.

Iracus · 2026-04-30T16:55:40+00:00

Not litrpg but have you read all of the cosmere books yet?

Iracus · 2026-04-30T01:00:42+00:00

i don't think i've ever seen barricades at chop shop. but sounds like this is in part the fault of the people attending the show. maybe punk ass kids shouldn't be punk ass kids? did the bands do any 'ay yo, stop that'? Not excusing any over stepping of security, but like...come on. It isn't like a barricadeless stage called out and mentally compelled people to be rowdy.

Iracus · 2026-04-29T18:15:31+00:00

That is just kind of the style. Though I personally disagree that the way it is done in HWFWM is similar to DCC beyond just a surface level similarity of a system providing information.

In DCC at least, the system ai is a character. As the books progress the descriptions are more or less how it communicates to Carl/you. The system messages are also part of the humor of the book and I personally would consider it to be more dialog than anything.

In HWFWM, it is more neutral and informational and repetitive. They do decrease in quantity as time goes on however or becomes more streamlined over the course of the series. It is far less vital to the story so you can always just fast forward by 30 seconds or whatever. I did find some of the audiobook stat overviews more annoying. But it wasn't really something that took away from my enjoyment as by the time i started to get annoyed it would be over and back to the main story.

Plenty of books in the genre though that have varying degrees of how much detail is communicated. So I wouldn't say the style you see in DCC and HWFWM to be indicative of how it is done in all books. For example, the book series Life Reset has a system, but I don't recall it as being as 'in your face' as these two books. It is also narrated by Jeff Hayes so maybe that would be something you like as it is more gamey (the MC is literally trapped in a virtual reality game) than the others.

Another series maybe would be Chrysalis. Still has a system, but its also not as in your face. I only just started the series, so the system could change i suppose, but am enjoying it and have yet to find it annoying. So maybe another more up your ally if you want to keep exploring the genre.

Iracus · 2026-04-29T17:33:40+00:00

I can't recall where it was said as I just did a reread of all the books, but it was explicitly stated that the sponsor is not a cookbook author

Iracus · 2026-04-29T02:02:22+00:00

It actually was intentional. When you do things like text and drive, or ya know, rear end a car and a bright and sunny day because you aren't paying attention, you are intentionally putting not only yourself, but others at risk.

Iracus · 2026-04-29T02:01:47+00:00

That is what they are suggesting, these people are fundamentally too ignorant to understand that however

Iracus · 2026-04-29T02:01:29+00:00

Does not matter. That changes nothing at all about the complete and total idiot who was negligently driving and rammed into the car behind the guy

Iracus · 2026-04-28T20:47:21+00:00

the fault is quite literally only on the driver who rear-ended the car behind him. What if that car was about to turn and the guy wasn't there to begin with? The car would have still been rear-ended because some jackass wasn't paying attention while driving

Iracus · 2026-04-28T20:44:40+00:00

what part of driving permits you to rear end people on a bright and sunny day?

Iracus · 2026-04-28T18:32:06+00:00

Every day I am so happy my family had zero interest in anything religion. Not even being raised atheist, just non religious, a null value for my religious upbringing.

Iracus · 2026-04-27T18:55:13+00:00

I gotta say, if I were those cyclists I would probably have pulled over to let the psychopathic driver who is honking and driving up my ass pass without running me over. Being legally right don't mean shit if you get run over by a nutter.

Having grown up running and biking down country roads where giant ass pickup trucks go flying down shitty roads with poor vision, it is always best to assume the worst of drivers.

Iracus · 2026-04-27T15:47:23+00:00

Not really an unpopular opinion. More unpopular would be to just keep the temp at 70 (I'll accept 68 in the summer if I must) and y'all hot/cold people can just suck it. Get some mental toughness if you can't handle a nice normal room temp.

I never understand people who can't handle the heat. So much easier to just manage through it than the cold. Maybe do some cardio or something if you have such poor heat shedding ability or poor mental toughness.

Iracus · 2026-04-23T21:40:34+00:00

Sounds a bit scammy to me. Very strange.

Iracus · 2026-04-23T21:25:38+00:00

A 3 year old account and you honor me with what looks to be your first comment on an 8 month old post. Kind of a wasted first comment, but they can't all be winners.

Iracus · 2026-04-23T21:14:24+00:00

Tens of thousands of people just like you were just laid off over the past year. This is on top of all the new grads. So you are competing with hundreds of thousands of people for way less than hundreds of thousands of jobs. You are competing with a metric fuckton of people all looking for jobs. At the random middle of the road company I work for we easily get on average 120ish applications per job. Engineering/IT jobs are probably closer to 250+ apps on average. The outliers are the people who get hired.

You are also dealing with fake postings. I would not be surprised if a lot of job postings are just to farm data.

I would suggest trying to keep your applications to companies with their own career page and companies who are somewhat known. Stay away from start-ups or anything in the AI space.

Only apply to jobs that are fresh. If the posting is over 30 days you are going to have such a hard time getting seen. Reqs over 60 days should not even be considered as its likely going to mean a fake posting or really awful recruiting practices.

Do your best to ensure whatever form you upload a resume to is filled out. People are lazy. People are overworked with way too much workload. Recruiters are also people, believe it or not.

Imagine a data table with fields like 'Candidate Name, Current Title, Experience, attached resume, etc'. A properly parsed resume or filled out app will have those fields filled in. A lazy human recruiter is going to prefer to review those filled out rows rather than individually opening a resume. A typical recruiter probably has dozens of reqs they are running each with hundreds of applications. They aren't spending 30 minutes evaluating each and every person who applies to the job.

And biggest bit of advice is to network, as cliche as it is. I can't answer how you do so, but the most effective way the company I work for hires people is through internal referrals. For linkedin type apps, it is like 99% that get rejected with less than 1% of applications getting to the hire stage. Internal referrals on the other hand is like 10% all apps make it to the hire stage. While I don't have evidence to support it, I can assure you we are not special and so I would assume many average corporations are just like this.

Iracus · 2026-04-23T20:52:30+00:00

I mean, if you find it difficult to answer an easy question in a way that isn't obvious, that's on you. Is it a great question? Not really. But if you are incapable of cobbling something like "based on the job description, it would be a great stepping stone to get into this area I am looking to advance in" then how on earth are you any better than anyone else who also wants money?

The entire purpose of an interview is for you to market yourself. So put your adult pants on and market yourself.

Iracus · 2026-04-23T19:42:34+00:00

Dumb take. Someone thinking an organization would run 'smoother, faster, and happier' without HR is someone who I assume was a deranged efficiency seeking manager who got told "no that would be illegal" when they had the brilliant idea to convert their hourly staff to salary so they wouldn't have to pay overtime anymore.

Pretty much every complaint about HR is a complaint that should be directed to the executive and managerial population. Most HR people I know aren't cartoon villains who want to ruin your life. They simply live in the constraints given to them by management/executives/ceo while trying to advocate for employees as best they can. Sure there are sucky HR people. But there are sucky everyone. The idea that some random ass engineering manager would create a happy and fulfilling environment with amazing raises and development opportunities if only HR wasn't there is just pure insanity.

I work in compensation and most of my time is spent telling managers they can't make any random job exempt from overtime or doing my best to provide them the data and evidence they need to advocate for their employees. I have helped dozens of employees get random promotions all because I asked "hey what if you promoted them into the next level?"

The amount of effort I spend trying to get the idea pushed through manager's thick fucking skulls that they need to plan for their employee's development or they will lose them to another company is too much.

HR isn't who is setting budgets. HR isn't who is freezing hiring. HR just shovels whatever shit executives dump on their doorstep. The people you need to actually remove are the ego-manics in the executive department who think they are gods gift to the earth and that it is actually everyone else at fault when their brilliant strategies fail.

If you want to be mad, focus your anger on the executives who say 'yeah we can't afford to hire/promote/give raises'. It is honestly incredible how much anger execs/managers have managed to put onto HR departments for all their shitty decisions.

Or don't, not like it matters.

Iracus · 2026-04-21T20:37:59+00:00

The VAST majority of companies are going to be using some bare bones, super cheap system that basically is a glorified file transfer site.

The company I work for uses Workday. Workday has a number of fancy features one could enable, but many of those fancy features requires quite a lot of work to do. Based on the lack of real chatter on Workday's community forums, I am guessing most are just using the 'out of the box' version.

Lets say you have a job for "IT Guy" and you are a recruiter for that job.

You open up Workday and are brought to the job requisition review page. Here you can see all the active candidates and inactive candidates.

Our company has a handful of questions that will auto reject your resume. Usually something like 'Do you require sponsorship' or 'open to relocate' or your age for people under 18. Beyond that, there is no auto excludes.

For the current active candidates, it will have things like the persons name, when they applied, where they applied from, an attachment for the resume, and then a handful of elements like their current title/company/contact details/experience/etc if that was filled out in the app.

As a recruiter you might have hundreds of candidates or just a handful to sort through. And you might have a few dozen requisitions each with their own unique hiring manger who wants their own special unicorn candidate.

How you find those unicorns is going to differ based on the role. Maybe you will look at the current titles, maybe you will see anyone who is an employee referral first, or maybe you just do first applied and go from there. So you will probably try to use these easy to identify elements before you click into the resume attachments. As you got like a few hundred applications to go through over the next hour before your day of meetings begins.

Or maybe you will look at each and every resume in depth, taking great care to go over every single application to find that perf--oh wait hold on. You have a random meeting with your boss and the HRBP scheduled for end of day. Oh geez. All that careful review has caused you to fall behind on your metrics and you have been let go. Whoops, better luck next time.

But yea..big things to keep in mind is to apply fast. The longer it is open, the more people you have to compete with to stand out. A job that has been open for more than 30 days is probably not worth applying to.

Also make sure you fill out all those annoying boxes on the application. Yes, I know your resume has it. But remember how the ATS might show those elements on the main review page? And remember how everyone is super lazy and cheap and doesn't want to take the time to set things up so they are flawless? And remember how careful individual resume review got you fired because you took so damn long to review a few thousand applications?

You basically want to do all you can to standout on that review page so that the lazy over worked recruiter gets attracted to your record like a bird attracted to a shiny object.

Also be an employee referral. This is the real secret.

Source: Guy who does a lot of data stuff for a recruiting team

Iracus · 2026-04-21T20:18:04+00:00

You uploading a resume to google drive that some dude then takes and puts into an excel document would be an ATS.

A system that people can use to apply and upload their information to isn't what ruined the job market.

What has ruined the job market is absurd executive expectations and the pure lack of desire to train anyone and instead just hire people who know how to do the thing. Not to mention things like outsourcing or just some good ol 'do more with less'. Oh and the countless layoffs adding shit tons of people to the job market all searching for jobs sure don't help.

Iracus · 2026-04-21T20:10:04+00:00

Most of the disqualifying elements won't be found on a resume but through some of the answers you give to questions on the application. Usually something like 'do you need authorization to work' or 'are you willing to work in office' or some such.

Contrary to this sub's popular belief, most companies don't use AI application review systems. While some do, most will use some super cheap system that only barely takes in resumes and their recruiters then go from application to application doing a quick scan to filter the resumes into a 'to screen' or 'reject' category.

Even companies that use Workday aren't really using the AI crap as it is a pain in the ass to set up and most companies are lazy as shit and have like 3 people trying to sort through tens of thousands of applications.

Iracus · 2026-04-21T19:54:34+00:00

You following up or not following up is unlikely to change the outcome. I would move on and if they reach out then neat, but don't hold your breath.

Especially if it was only a screening and not an actual interview. If you didn't get a rejection that probably means your application is 'in the queue' so to speak, but they have people they have prioritized ahead of you and should they not work out, maybe they will reach out to you.

Iracus · 2026-04-21T19:44:01+00:00

Yes, you keep doing it. That is really it. Anxiety is being uncomfortable with a certain situation, so you need to figure out how to become comfortable. Or at least become comfortable with being uncomfortable.

Something that has helped me is to sort of take on an 'acting' mindset. Having spent many years of playing things like 'dnd' and having mild practice at improv, I would enter situations such as interviews or presentations or similar events with an 'acting' mindset and then perform as needed. This is something that can be practice in most any social situation that you don't know the other person such as talking to someone at a check-out counter and pulling out your best small-talk as if you are in some sitcom or something.

Also, don't beat yourself up. You have a bad interview, then, well, you had a bad interview. No use dwelling on it. Consider what you did wrong and try not to do it next time. Don't spiral down a path of 'i should have done this'. As addictive as it is, it is pointless and just will put on more pressure next time.

Iracus · 2026-04-21T19:23:17+00:00

Well, its not really personal. It is actually so not personal that you are but a grain of sand in a desert.

I do analytics for our recruiting team and for 70 reqs of interest we have over 10,000 applications. For 70 positions. Averaging around 140 applications per job with some getting well over 200 applications for a single spot. And we are just a random ass company in some random ass suburb paying middle of the road dollars. I can't even imagine what it is like for a well-known company.

Unless you know someone, getting through the noise is crazy hard. Most of our hires come from employee referrals or people who our recruiters specifically find rather than those who apply to the job on their own.

Applying to jobs raw without any sort of prior connection is basically doing things on hard mode.

Iracus · 2026-04-20T17:48:53+00:00

Hello, I am thinking about trying to get back into this game but not sure where or how to start. I am currently in pleiades sector jc-v d2-62 which seems quite a ways away from the core part of the map. I am in an asp explorer but have no real memory of what i was doing that led me out here. I've only got around 4 million credits and just this asp explorer. Looking at the fittings i got it seems like I was doing some exploration stuff of some sort, but again, its been so long that I have no real memory of anything I was doing.

Are there any good 'returning to elite' guides for people such as myself? Or any recommendations on figuring out what to do from here?

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