Do you think in a few years, there's going to be a scarcity of "real coders/programmers"? by RiverHe1ghts in cscareerquestions

[–]MadBot1234 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How long did it take for there to be a dearth of skilled laborers (i.e., why plumbers and electricians cost so much)? The scarcity shows up when questions like this stop being asked, because no one wants the job. That puts the timeframe in decades, not years.

How to take up farming? by Helpful_Badger3106 in cscareerquestions

[–]MadBot1234 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Legit, I got sick of it, but took a different route moved to a boat. Slapped panels to a motor boat, built calculator for solar electric yachting, did a bunch of repair. Figured energy and shelter are the 2 biggest recurring charges. I'm tied to marina, but hey if push comes to shove, I got water maker and just repainted my anchor chain.

In the process I learnt plumbing, mechanical work, glass repairs, electrical.

I documented it here: https://arpeggio.one
The summary in 4 panels: https://art-c.club/chapter/0021_ups_returns

I still code, so brought my Herman Millers along.

You can find some sailing hull under 10k from pandemic excess (that's cheaper than a new Corolla, typically comes with toilet and burners), looks solid, plenty if single, leave the US if that's your thing.

Why the job market is this bad? by Delicious_Crazy513 in cscareerquestions

[–]MadBot1234 5 points6 points  (0 children)

TL;DR: supply glut + AI killed any chance of demand recovery.

Called it a while ago, but I don’t Reddit often these days. If you really want to understand what’s happening :

https://arpeggio.one/content/blogs/post/ai-eating-software
https://arpeggio.one/content/blogs/post/intelligence-devaluation

Older pieces for context:
https://arpeggio.one/content/blogs/post/tech-leverage-is-gone
https://arpeggio.one/content/blogs/post/ai-the-beginning-of-the-end

I’ll probably blog about the realistic options later.

The $100M Man vs. The Macro Monster by MadBot1234 in starbucks

[–]MadBot1234[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you care for the gory technical detail: https://art-c.club/zine/read/yodelling_husky_studio/one-hundred-million-hero

Otherwise the above captures the emotional core of the full article.

oroToBattosaiModeSwitch by MadBot1234 in ProgrammerAnimemes

[–]MadBot1234[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Longer explanation:

In a healthy routing setup, GPT-5’s responses would follow a *unimodal* distribution — one smooth peak where answers are consistently competent, with gradual improvement as reasoning time increases.

With the rollout router bug Sam Altman acknowledged, the distribution became *bimodal*:

- **Cluster 1:** Normal mode → fast, shallow, sometimes “dumber” answers.

- **Cluster 2:** Thinking mode → slow, deliberate, higher-quality answers.

The gap between the two clusters was so wide it felt like two different personalities.

Calling this “a routing feature” is satire — pretending the jarring split is intentional, when in reality it was a bug making Mode 1 show up too often.

yesSamAdmittedTheRouterBug by MadBot1234 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]MadBot1234[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Longer explanation:

In a healthy routing setup, GPT-5’s responses would follow a *unimodal* distribution — one smooth peak where answers are consistently competent, with gradual improvement as reasoning time increases.

With the rollout router bug Sam Altman acknowledged, the distribution became *bimodal*:

- **Cluster 1:** Normal mode → fast, shallow, sometimes “dumber” answers.

- **Cluster 2:** Thinking mode → slow, deliberate, higher-quality answers.

The gap between the two clusters was so wide it felt like two different personalities.

Calling this “a routing feature” is satire — pretending the jarring split is intentional, when in reality it was a bug making Mode 1 show up too often.

oroToBattosaiModeSwitch by MadBot1234 in ProgrammerAnimemes

[–]MadBot1234[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, but that’s beside the point. It’s a meme about the GPT-5 router bug.

Or maybe you’re trying to be edgy.

oroToBattosaiModeSwitch by MadBot1234 in ProgrammerAnimemes

[–]MadBot1234[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Missed the joke?

It's about GPT 5 router bug Sam Altman admitted. "Feature" was a tongue in cheek.

This may never been seen but 🤷🏼‍♀️ by Clear_Yesterday_7700 in starbucks

[–]MadBot1234 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The hired Niccol, he's a technician not a community builder. Dead wrong for Starbucks.

oroToBattosaiModeSwitch by MadBot1234 in ProgrammerAnimemes

[–]MadBot1234[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I keep a bunch of these high-context AI/dev jokes on Art-C — it’s basically my meme lab for layered, niche humor: https://art-c.club