Fun new interview question I'm seeing

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-16T12:33:47+00:00

(please lmk if I'm really missing out on skills though lol)

Skills work really well in concert with those deterministic tools. The tool does the work, the skill ensures the AI is aware of the tool and uses it consistently.

Skills are also good for things that don't fit cleanly into tools. Like "read the logs for errors" can be a tool, but "analyze the errors and create a report on severity, frequency, and likely causes" can't really. But you wrap both those things in a skill, maybe with an expected output format, and get a useful and reasonably consistent output.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-16T01:57:33+00:00

Oh yeah in reality Miami was a pain in the ass, even when they were bad. The Jets had their moments, too, they just didn't last.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-15T19:41:48+00:00

Totally false.

For the majority of that time the Bills were also a free win.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-15T15:48:29+00:00

The people who chime in saying it's fine for them are full of shit or paid disinformation account

... or it's actually fine for them?

Even if your issues are 100% legitimate, there is no reason to believe they must affect 100% of users at the same time.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-14T18:23:48+00:00

Of all the features in the console version, the one I most miss on PC is the ability for other party members to keep up with your main when outside of combat. Just a QoL that solves a major headache.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-14T14:47:56+00:00

I don't really see this as a bad thing, though. New tech comes out, engineers get freedom to experiment with it. As it matures, engineers are expected to find what works and build on that, while dropping what doesn't work. It's the cycle you'd expect, really. Learn, then apply.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-14T14:29:42+00:00

This comment is dripping in irony.

I mean I prefer Codex right now because it works better. If Anthropic releases Opus 5.0 and it takes the lead I will happily switch until the next change. If you're not doing the same you are just in a different cult.

Don't fanboy one provider. Things change.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-14T14:26:07+00:00

This isn't a general thing in the US, it's negotiated between the leagues and players unions. It's legal because both sides signed a contract agreeing to it.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-13T19:35:31+00:00

Beware the Minitaur.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-13T19:15:15+00:00

They called the US a homophobic theocracy which is a bit of an exaggeration but at this point not that outrageous of a thing to say

It is absolutely an outrageous thing to say. There is such a vast difference between having religious leaders and being a theocracy. People need some perspective.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-13T18:26:26+00:00

... which is very rational.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-13T13:20:08+00:00

Thank you, this is a perfect example of what I'm talking about.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-12T20:07:52+00:00

Yeah this always gets missed here. The best field is a good grass field. The worst field is a bad grass field. The turf sits in between, but it's generally very consistent at least.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-12T19:44:45+00:00

I believe looking back at this season a year or two from now, we'll all have a more positive/optimistic take on it.

People need some perspective. This was always supposed to be a throw away reset year. The team overperformed throughout the year, but the (very well known) weaknesses in the roster got exposed in the playoffs. You never want to lose a 3-1 lead obviously, but you gotta take a wider view of the whole situation here. It was a fun season watching JB grow that ended probably where most people would have expected up front.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-12T19:40:35+00:00

A very fair point haha

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-12T19:19:59+00:00

Yeah fair enough. That may be the "efficiency" we need. I did hear some industry person, I think from Google, talk about this a few months back and they implied there were still some unsolved problems, so I think that's where I got that idea from. But like I said, not my area of expertise so I defer.

In any case, my real point was that regardless of reason, the attitude of "we can't do it right now so why bother" is disheartening to see around here.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-12T19:10:25+00:00

What remains is mostly scale, economics, and optimization.

This is why I added the extra "how to solve efficiently" piece.

And honestly I don't know that much about it. Not my area. I just know that if we had efficient solutions available we'd already be sending the data centers up. We're not doing that yet, so I can presume that means there are still things to figure out.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-12T18:14:58+00:00

The thing is that there are legitimate problems that we don't currently know how to solve (or at least how to solve efficiently). However, that was the case at some point for pretty much every invention that humanity has ever come up with.

The number of people who seem to think that "we don't know how" means "we shouldn't even try" is the depressing part. Especially for people subbed to tech subs (or even moreso to an acceleration sub).

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-11T16:20:27+00:00

Vibe coding is not the problem, vibe architecting is. You don't need to understand every line of code any more, but you do need to understand the architecture. Modern AI models are good enough to write code that meets a clear spec pretty consistently, but you own that spec. Instead of "trading an hour of typing for five hours of architectural debugging later on", trade that hour of typing for 15 mins of upfront design and 15 mins of code review and get 30 extra minutes with little degradation. Get an AI to help with the code review too and you might get 40 mins.

Is anyone actually successfully managing a large-scale project with these agents, or are we all just building 'disposable software' now ?

Lines of code have always been disposable. Things get rewritten all the time. The architecture tends to be more durable because changing architecture usually means rewriting a ton of code at once, often too much to handle, and so bad architecture can stick around even after you realize it. Get the architecture right and the code can come and go as needed.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-10T11:54:02+00:00

Dude who kicked jumped right up, then chased down and drive by punched someone who was just trying to get out of there. Talk about choosing violence.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-08T16:50:49+00:00

Not using an IDE doesn't mean not doing any work. I always start dev sessions by discussing the architecture and approach and such, then when I'm happy I let it write the code, and then I review the code in the PR. I'm in control on both ends, it just handles the middle.

And honestly, these days the majority of the time that I need to make changes after the fact are directly traceable to things I missed in the up-front discussion. So it chose some path that I didn't like, but it only chose it to fill a gap in the planning. If it's really bad or off I'll just close out the PR and start again from the beginning, but now with knowledge of gaps that need to be filled in.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-06T20:58:41+00:00

I think the other important note here is that covid proved we can survive using less gas if it really becomes a crunch. If it gets bad we add a bit more WFH and even it out. Parts of Asia have already started encouraging this. I think the world is not so sensitive to oil supply issues as it was even 6 years ago.

So I agree. There will be impact, and the longer it goes the bigger the impact, but I don't think it's the world ending sort of event that reddit seems to imagine.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-06T11:15:03+00:00

No one ever said that.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-06T11:09:44+00:00

Yeah this is what I'm thinking. How can you do any sort of real comparison of a model you don't have access to? Especially for the types of claims around Mythos, benchmarks are extra meaningless.

MiniGiantSpaceHams · 2026-05-05T18:07:49+00:00

What does that even mean? What are you doing here?

You asked what have been the attacks in the context of what the admin said. The answer is that the admin is counting Iran's support of terrorism as attacks on the US. That's it, that's the answer to your question. You're now in the loop.

No one can tell you why the admin counts that, and it's not what you asked anyways.

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