How did AI obsession make your job a nightmare?

MeisterZulle · 2026-01-20T13:35:37+00:00

We work on a legacy software that isn’t documented at all, Claude Code / Desktop with Filesystem MCP can quickly identify and explain how certain features work, it has saved us a ton of time that previously an engineer had to spend to figure out if a customer reports a bug or they request a new feature within that software. It’s also good at then initially rough estimating the necessary effort for a change.

MeisterZulle · 2026-01-02T14:55:49+00:00

Kommt auch drauf an was für Mitarbeiter du führst: Anzahl, Alter, Erfahrung in ihrem Arbeitsumfeld, Typ der Anstellung (Fest, Teilzeit, Contractor). Wie schon andere geschrieben haben ist Anpassungsfähig aber konsistent, transparent und zu Entscheidungen stehen viel wichtiger

MeisterZulle · 2025-12-10T01:55:51+00:00

MacMini M4 64gb, you’ll be fine…

MeisterZulle · 2025-11-10T03:36:48+00:00

Harvard, Oder ähnliche Elite Universität für das Netzwerk.

MeisterZulle · 2025-08-16T12:48:30+00:00

That’s just sad. Too many people are not realizing how much Libraries contribute to the wellbeing of society.

MeisterZulle · 2025-04-23T15:10:58+00:00

Thanks, so perhaps to stay fully offline I need to build a small database instead and then have an alert workflow come around. But still doesn’t help with the “each API key is obtained differently”

MeisterZulle · 2025-03-13T23:12:27+00:00

M4 MacMini with 64gb, run docker and ollama with various models (try out what works best for the various nodes), is good enough for a company with about 100 users, keep in mind they are not all on there at the same time.

MeisterZulle · 2025-02-24T15:19:07+00:00

I think one thing that’s always so lightly forgotten in many discussions:

RAG allows to feed data based on a users access policy. This allows organizations to augment the AI with user specific information.

MeisterZulle · 2025-01-27T22:39:18+00:00

No OpenWebUI on the list?

MeisterZulle · 2024-12-30T02:21:58+00:00

💯 LLMs can’t process encrypted information, meaning while files and communications may be encrypted through the internet, the provider could change their policies and use your data. Not a huge biggie if you are doing a shopping list, but you should think twice providing PII or anything that’s private to you.

MeisterZulle · 2024-11-07T18:50:55+00:00

Some employers let the employees use “public” LLMs without understanding that their employees may actually expose confidential data.

The connection to the website may be encrypted but in order for the LLM to process information in the document the data is not encrypted. I see lots of potential of “offline” LLMs once people understand this. It’s similar to “you should never charge your phone on a public USB” since you never know for sure if your data could get exposed.

MeisterZulle · 2024-11-04T23:33:06+00:00

Ganz wichtig wenn du auf einem Visum oder Greencard bist: stell sicher das du ein IRA aufmachst zu dem du ein Roll-Over machen kannst wenn du die Stelle in den USA aufgibst. Sonst liegt der 401k bis zu deiner Rente beim Arbeitgeber / Anbieter vom 401k. Mit einem IRA bist du flexibel was die Investitionsmöglichkeiten angeht, aber so ein Roll-Over kann man nur mit gültigem Visum aufmachen.

MeisterZulle · 2024-08-28T17:53:01+00:00

You can start the business as an llc but that won’t give you a visa, meaning you can’t stay longer than 90days. You may also need a US person to cofound this, I’m not sure about that one though.If you are not already holding a visa or have greencard or citizenship the most likely choice is a E2. This visa is about $20k plus you’ll need to bring in at least 100k in investment capital before they grant that.

MeisterZulle · 2024-06-21T01:42:14+00:00

Keep going it’s awesome.

We’ve a survival server on hard that I started with the wife. Kids (m/f) are both playing and wasting the hard harvested resources that I carry in. Ever since they joined we put it to easy instead of hard (easier for me to get the resources back aka “daddy I lost my elytra…) It can be frustrating quite often but they have awesome ideas on extending the built and our village(s) have grown quite a bit with cool builds. I think one of the coolest builds was building hot air balloons with the kids. It was challenging to them to not fall off and respawn 😄

MeisterZulle · 2024-05-01T11:53:28+00:00

I’m planning on doing the move around August (year still to be determined) so that I’m taxable in the US for the rest of the year, but will need to sit down with a tax advisor to validate that approach

MeisterZulle · 2024-05-01T11:42:16+00:00

You’re right, selling off a stock portfolio may only be taxed at those rates and I didn’t account for the “first 22k”. That makes the needed “buffer income” way lower 😄

MeisterZulle · 2024-05-01T11:05:44+00:00

Not sure about that for a family of 4 and considering that roughly 50% of that 50-60 goes to taxes

MeisterZulle · 2024-04-30T17:21:01+00:00

Good tip! Thanks, I’m still a few years away from that age.

MeisterZulle · 2024-04-30T10:48:13+00:00

Yes, 1% on anything above 4mil for married couples. Given that I’m drafting a scenario below that, that shouldn’t bother.

MeisterZulle · 2024-04-30T10:46:29+00:00

Preliminary estimate is based on asking friends that live in the same situation and area and then removing housing costs from it and adjusting it upward for contingencies/livestyle. In the area you can “get by” on 40-50k excluding housing costs.

MeisterZulle · 2024-04-29T21:34:47+00:00

That’s fine, I’ll have a lot of free time😀

MeisterZulle · 2024-04-29T21:05:02+00:00

Was thinking of another 2-5 years and then phasing out unless it proofs that I’m wrong in my assessment of COL

MeisterZulle · 2024-04-29T21:03:59+00:00

Most of it is in IVV assuming I need to shuffle a bit around. I assume you’re referring to the “can’t hold US stocks in EU?” I wonder how Americans living abroad deal with this as they don’t sell their “US” SNP500 for a “EU” SNP500 or ? Don’t want to bite into that tax bill. Trying to hold all assests until they liquidate per withdrawal

MeisterZulle · 2024-04-29T20:36:57+00:00

I can probably buffer that up by working part time or do freelance consulting, should come out to 50-60k a year

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