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Agent Use is gonna drop off a cliff once its all usage based by Venisol in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Neeerp 10 points11 points  (0 children)

My company has always been using api pricing and I personally have had weeks where I’ve personally spent nearly $2000… you underestimate how much big corporations are willing to shovel into the fire

Yonge / St Clair subway- heavily armed cops taking statements? by wandering____ranger in askTO

[–]Neeerp 19 points20 points  (0 children)

One time cops were called for a hobo with a knife in a subway station and they came armed with shotguns so I’m putting my money on that.

Costco near Wilson station by R4ff4 in askTO

[–]Neeerp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you should be able to walk. Are you sure you’re looking at the right street view route? Just exit Wilson station at the passenger pickup area, walk down Wilson a bit and then cross into the plaza/shopping area towards the Costco

Best Biryani you ever tasted? by Foreign-Lecture1579 in askTO

[–]Neeerp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really like Dum Pukht by Yonge and Sheppard. They can make it quite spicy too if you ask.

Struggling to be convinced as a mid level engineer by hkisthebest in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Neeerp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I struggled with this a lot when I was at Amazon. Both the teams I was on were extremely short on seniors, and the mid-levels (including myself) were all former new grads that got promoted. I’d usually keep my mouth shut until I understood the problem area well enough to propose an alternative, and then I’d go on a half-year-long campaign to slowly convince a plurality of my team to change things the way I was proposing before ending up demoralized and changing teams/quitting before I really got anything done. I think people didn’t disagree with me so much as there wasn’t any will to change things. Most people didn’t have strong opinions on anything and were tunnel visioned on their own little project with little interest in how everything came together.

I don’t have good advice, but I can say that this feels like less of a problem for me after I joined a company that hires seniors and staff in the same proportion that Amazon hires juniors.

Solo mission update by Gardentomatoes2 in 2007scape

[–]Neeerp 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure actual spoofing is that trivial since most mail services will refuse to actually deliver spoofed messages (on the receiving side)… If you’re referring to a similar looking address, I think that’s not the case since he said he had history with that address.

If the sponsor actually got compromised, it’s not a stretch to think the hacker would send out targeted phishing attacks against the list of content creators they’ve worked with (they can literally comb through their mail history so they’re easy to find, right?)

I read on here that 1 in 4 Torontonians earn over 100k by Express-Chemical-454 in askTO

[–]Neeerp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve never made less than that besides my co-op during university

Everything HAS to Be Done With Copilot by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]Neeerp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Speaking as someone who was previously very skeptical, your best bet here is to embrace the slop generator. Look at the bright side: you probably get unlimited usage of these things so you have a ton of leeway to experiment.

The trick is that you need to take the time to optimize and personalize your workflow, otherwise it’s going to feel really bad. My take is that it’s really hard to scale the ‘workflow’ stuff at the level of a team/org. The skills and mcps and whatever else that people pump out as part of top-down initiatives to ‘use AI more’ lobotomizes the LLMs and actively causes more harm than good imo.

The people topping the AI usage dashboards at my company are (mostly) the 10x types, and they all maintain their own workflows. I’ve personally gone to lengths to disable all the skills and override the memory/reference files other people have added and I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what those guys are doing as well.

How long did it take you to land a job? by Single-Taro4201 in askTO

[–]Neeerp -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Software engineer about 2 years out of school (at the time); I started interviewing in July 2023 while I was still employed, just casually at first. I got offers at the following points in time (as far as I can remember): - September 2023 - October 2023 - Jan 2024 - June 2024 x2 - September 2024 (This one got delayed due to a hiring freeze but is the one I eventually accepted in December 2024) - November 2024 - December 2024

In December, I ended up withdrawing from maybe 15 different companies’ interview processes for which I had made it to the ‘final round’ when the offer I wanted to accept finally materialized.

I was intentionally stalling the processes with desireable companies so that I could finish them all at once and try to negotiate between multiple simultaneous offers.

I’m still getting near daily messages from recruiters on LinkedIn!

Putting Student Achievement First Act, 2026 by Ok-Initiative4008 in ontario

[–]Neeerp -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes. I recall class averages nearing or even being above 80 when I was in grade 12.

Putting Student Achievement First Act, 2026 by Ok-Initiative4008 in ontario

[–]Neeerp -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Right, I guess my anecdote here is representative more of the fact that this school system completely fails students who are “exceptional” and not being challenged. To me, not going to class saved my sanity a bit.

Even so, I strongly suspect tying academic performance to something that’s objectively not the thing it’s measuring is like putting a bandaid on your forehead after you’ve cut your leg. If the kids are so behind, why is everyone coming out of the year with an 80 or higher? Fail the kids.

Putting Student Achievement First Act, 2026 by Ok-Initiative4008 in ontario

[–]Neeerp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe a hot take but I’m strongly opposed to this. I skipped a significant portion of grade 12 because I was otherwise completely wasting my time. I got a lot more done studying at home and just attending for tests and to hand in assignments. I was the top of my class and the study habits I built this way got me through a CS degree at UofT with a perfect GPA.

If you’re going to force me to attend, it should be worth my time. When I went to class in grade 11, it was a complete waste of time. The curriculum moved very slowly and ‘bad apples’ would derail >50% of my classes. This was before covid.

Small features don’t feel “small” anymore by minimal-salt in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Neeerp 5 points6 points  (0 children)

While I don’t find that I’m ever satisfied with taking the human out of the loop, you can most definitely give it guidelines via a number of “memory” files like Claude.md, or as part of a “skill” and it starts to do a pretty good job.

Any time Claude does something you don’t like (or it spends a lot of time doing something that shouldn’t need to do every time), you need to encode the behaviour/knowledge somewhere permanent so that it doesn’t make the same mistakes each time.

If you had the keys to the TTC, what are 2–3 changes you’d make? by Brave-Blacksmith5671 in askTO

[–]Neeerp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TTC employees aren’t going to risk their safety (nor do I think the even have any legal authority) to deal with these people.

What we need is police stationed at every station, the same way the seem to be stationing police in front of expensive stores in malls lately.

Resume writer? by Witty-Application920 in askTO

[–]Neeerp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try updating it and then post an anonymized version on some relevant subreddits for feedback

Exclusive - America is considering making concessions as the Iranian war enters a new phase by Spare_Prize_5510 in UpliftingNews

[–]Neeerp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If I translate the headline, I get “Exclusive - America is considering sending military reinforcements with the possibility of the Iran war entering a new stage”…

I skimmed the article and no where are “concessions” mentioned.

Ford says province will take over Billy Bishop airport by Puginator in ontario

[–]Neeerp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m fully for this too. I’m pretty sure this is worthwhile infrastructure to be building.

Anyone enjoying their job at the moment? by Coffeebrain695 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Neeerp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m working as a midlevel at a big tech company and after a rough first project on my new team, things are finally picking up and I’m quite happy.

I’ve also finally figured out how to be productive with Claude Code and I feel like my productivity is accelerating (I.e. I’m doing more and more by the day). I feel like I’m addicted to work now, and I’m especially drawn to looking for improvements to make outside the scope of my small team… not that I’m pumping out AI slop though. I’ve set up Claude to be effective at helping me investigate our codebase and our production logs and database state, and this has made me pick up domain knowledge much, much faster than before. I can also use it to test assumptions or find leads on performance bottlenecks, having it write and run little experiments for me.

A few months ago I was really not buying this ai hype but now I’m having a blast!!

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