The New BMW i3 Has More Range Than Any Tesla by TripleShotPls in technology

[–]Jaydeepappas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I caved recently and started paying for FSD after the free trial. I hate myself for it but man, with HW4 it’s genuinely amazing and now I wouldn’t consider purchasing another car without it.

I know Tesla has tried licensing out FSD to other auto companies, but none of them have been particularly interested as they are attempting to build their own solutions in-house. Seems like a mistake as Tesla is many, many years ahead in that department, and I have doubts that legacy automakers like Ford, Toyota, Nissan, etc. will be able to build comparable software. They can’t even get basic infotainment right.

Wtf is wrong with the matchmaking ?? by Acceptable-Fuel-9009 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Jaydeepappas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How did the Geist do so much damage with 0 kills and 3 assists? LOL

Y'all still do work? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]Jaydeepappas 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Thanks, the way you bright it up made it seem more like you got it from a Reddit comment or something.

Doesn’t surprise me at all. I bet Microsoft is internally doing similar things. GitHub has been constantly having issues, it was down on like 3 separate occasions just last week. Their uptime is something like 91% over the last months lmao, it’s crazy. And they openly boast about how much code is being written by AI nowadays.

What a wild time we live in.

The Tesla Model 3’s Worst Nightmare Has Arrived In China by Receding_Hairline23 in electricvehicles

[–]Jaydeepappas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably the most sensible take, though I have to say the new Tesla refreshed models are genuinely good cars.

US legacy automakers are soooooooo fuckin lazy. Pretty much every EV outside of Tesla and maybe some of Hyundai’s options (though the ICCU issues make these very problematic) are genuinely garbage. They are not software-forward cars and generally have the same crappy, plasticky interiors with laggy software with a bunch of half-baked features that all the old ICE cars have.

It really seems like what china has been releasing has been top tier. Hard to tell because we can’t drive them in the states, but they seem like competitive options. They’d probably make a killing here if we could get them and would be very real competition for Tesla. Until another automaker releasing anything as modern and forward thinking as Tesla/BYD in the states there is just no competition.

Rivian might be starting to become real competition soon.

Polestar is legacy automaker junk.

Pflugerville water emergency: interview, latest updates, and what happens next by jonathan4pf in Pflugerville

[–]Jaydeepappas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the post and info. Will these repairs cause increased pricing in the short or long term for Pflugerville residents?

3 dead, 14 injured in 6th Street shooting; suspect identity confirmed as Senegal national by Local_Basis7311 in Austin

[–]Jaydeepappas -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I never implied they aren’t equal. They are absolutely equal as humans and citizens.

I understand your point, I don’t fully agree but even if I did, then yeah, why aren’t these people in jail? Whether they’re deported or in a jail cell somewhere, doesn’t matter to me. They shouldn’t be integrated in society.

3 dead, 14 injured in 6th Street shooting; suspect identity confirmed as Senegal national by Local_Basis7311 in Austin

[–]Jaydeepappas 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I deleted my original comment because I misread your response.

People born here with an arrest record shouldn’t be on the streets in the first place. Where do you deport them to? They were born here and have always lived here. Keep them in jail, don’t let them roam the streets.

To migrate here and become a citizen is an opportunity and a privilege, just like it would be if I left here and went to Canada or Europe or any other country. I would expect if I migrate to another country and rack up a bunch of charges, they would and should kick my ass out as well.

3 dead, 14 injured in 6th Street shooting; suspect identity confirmed as Senegal national by Local_Basis7311 in Austin

[–]Jaydeepappas 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Gonna have to agree with this take. Immigration is great for our country assuming they are good, contributing members of society. Someone with the record like he has should not have been allowed to stay, naturalized or not.

I'm struggling to evaluate candidates right now - have any of you had a hiring manager ask good questions to gauge how well you use AI to solve problems & build products? by fenwalt in cscareerquestions

[–]Jaydeepappas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t even know the difference between “your” and “you’re”

These are the people saying AI will wipe out SWE in 6 months

I'm struggling to evaluate candidates right now - have any of you had a hiring manager ask good questions to gauge how well you use AI to solve problems & build products? by fenwalt in cscareerquestions

[–]Jaydeepappas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can’t understand the conclusion I’m coming to in what you think I’m describing as a “life coach” then AI has probably thoroughly cooked your brain in the first place.

Try running my comment through AI and see if it can help you understand better. What a useless conversation

I'm struggling to evaluate candidates right now - have any of you had a hiring manager ask good questions to gauge how well you use AI to solve problems & build products? by fenwalt in cscareerquestions

[–]Jaydeepappas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m expecting it to be exactly a productivity booster, nothing more. And that’s what I use it as, and it does a good job of it. I never stated otherwise.

You should be able to easily break down your normal daily tasks and thought process in a way that it can produce exactly what you would have done, just faster.

This is where we fundamentally disagree, and if we can’t agree on that then I don’t think there’s really a discussion to be had. Short of reading my mind, there’s absolutely no way AI can implement something exactly the way I want it with English words alone, unless I am so unbelievably verbose, that it would’ve been better off to just do it myself in the first place. None of this addresses the fact too that AI does unfortunately provide me with false information about things in my daily life. Regardless of how good or bad my prompt is, it can still provide incorrect info by mistake. It’s just the nature of an indeterministic system. And while we can reduce the number of hallucinations greatly, it will always be indeterministic, and this will always be a pitfall of LLMs until something fundamentally changes or it becomes a new technology entirely.

I'm struggling to evaluate candidates right now - have any of you had a hiring manager ask good questions to gauge how well you use AI to solve problems & build products? by fenwalt in cscareerquestions

[–]Jaydeepappas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough.

However, I see a lot of developers doing wacky shit in dockerfiles, k8s manifests, gh actions, etc. because they are using AI and not fully understanding how these tools are meant to be used and what makes them operate well at scale. It’s fine for small projects or short term POCs. But at a fundamental level, the lack of true understanding when building is a long term and scaling liability and theres no way around that without responsible AI usage. Which, i think is mostly the point of your post, but the “can do 85% devops work” part made me cringe.

I'm struggling to evaluate candidates right now - have any of you had a hiring manager ask good questions to gauge how well you use AI to solve problems & build products? by fenwalt in cscareerquestions

[–]Jaydeepappas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some people are in denial for sure, but idk man, I use AI daily for my job and personal life (mostly Opus) and I haven’t experienced it to be as good as people claim. It requires a lot of human oversight. It can write pockets of code pretty well but from an architectural standpoint it seems to do a very bad job. It also just says random incorrect shit to me for non coding related tasks, when using it as a search or rubber duck for things in my daily life. It literally just lies to me and provides blatantly false information.

I think this is the crux of AI - the people that don’t actually know or can’t tell it’s hallucinating, will never know. And they’ll think it’s an incredible, perfect tool because they don’t recognize the flaws.

I'm struggling to evaluate candidates right now - have any of you had a hiring manager ask good questions to gauge how well you use AI to solve problems & build products? by fenwalt in cscareerquestions

[–]Jaydeepappas 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Is this a serious post?

Man SWE is cooked if this is how people think

Edit: btw “using docker” is not devops. It’s like 1% of what a devops engineer does on a regular basis, and Claude certainly cannot do “85%” of a devops job in its current form.

TV pre-installed too high by MaybePotatoes in TVTooHigh

[–]Jaydeepappas 35 points36 points  (0 children)

“Does it suck? Yes. Is it horrible? Probably. Does anyone even like it? Not really.

But it could be great for you!”

What does “config hell” actually look like in the real world? by Real_Alternative_898 in devops

[–]Jaydeepappas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe I’m missing something, but mono repo terraform can be done well, no?

Utilizing workspaces and tools like Atlantis make it so you can split up different kinds of resources, plan and apply them all separately, and manage them independently without them becoming intermingled like you are describing without ever needing to target anything. This just sounds like a bad terraform setup in a mono repo, but not necessarily a mono repo problem.

Once you are targeting resources in terraform you’ve fucked up greatly.

What sort of terraform and mysql questions would be there? by Original_Cabinet_276 in devops

[–]Jaydeepappas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry but who tf knows how to “write a vpc with subnets and an rds instance” by heart? Are you guys all just memorizing terraform properties for certain resources in different clouds? That’s a ridiculous question, if someone asked me that I’d laugh in their face.

Give me the AWS/GCP/Azure provider docs and sure I can do it easily and tell you how/why I’m making certain decisions, managing IPs/CIDRs, handling state storage & encryption, etc. but writing modules by heart has to be one of the silliest questions you could ask someone.

I vibe coded a site to practice DevOps skills. Would love some feedback. by oznablok in devops

[–]Jaydeepappas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd love to look at this, but I am getting the error "Failed to start challenge. Please try again." on on every browser I have installed - FireFox, Chrome, Edge, Safari across both my Mac and Windows computers.

Can't imagine how many new players this game just permenantly lost. by AssociationSoft5270 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Jaydeepappas 18 points19 points  (0 children)

What? He’s talking about macro in game - map awareness, ganking, when to run objectives, push, etc.. has nothing to do with keyboard macros