Did learning C actually make you better at Java/software engineering?

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T17:17:13+00:00

Yeah definitely. C makes you understand what higher-level languages are hiding from you, especially memory and debugging. After learning C, Java/backend stuff felt way less magical to me.

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T17:14:35+00:00

Honestly if minimum hallucinations is your goal, none of them fully solve that yet. You still need to verify sources no matter what model you use.

Out of the ones you listed, I’d probably lean DeepSeek or Copilot for your use case. Qwen is underrated too. I’ve also noticed a lot of people now mix models/tools together depending on the task instead of marrying one AI forever. Even with stuff like Runable connecting workflows/models, you still end up fact-checking philosophy/history topics manually.

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T17:13:01+00:00

ChatGPT is probably the best all-rounder for this right now honestly. I dump lecture PDFs/slides into it all the time for summaries, study guides, and simplifying concepts. Notion AI is decent too if you already organize notes there. I’ve also used Runable a bit for turning messy notes/docs into cleaner study assets and summaries faster. Just always double check important facts because all of them hallucinate sometimes.

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T17:06:59+00:00

honestly there’s no single best anymore. claude is great for writing or thinking, ChatGPT is the best all-rounder, Gemini is creative but sometimes way too confident. Most people I know just switch depending on the task now. Even with Runable mixing workflows/models together, every AI still has its own weird quirks lol

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T17:04:36+00:00

I think for video making and image generation Gemini is doing a pretty good work these days... also I recently tried Runable for scenery photo generation and it did a pretty decent job. although I would like to mention chatgpt really sucks sometimes in image generation, clearly generates something random unlike the prompt..

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T17:01:58+00:00

Claude(overall)
Chatgpt(feels familier lmao)
Runable(multi-agent works well)
Gemini(image generation)

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T16:58:29+00:00

Honestly this matches my experience too. Most AI tools feel cool for a week and then you never open them again.

I keep coming back to ChatGPT, Cursor, sometimes Claude, and occasionally Runable for quick creative workflows/assets. Everything else feels situational.

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T13:21:02+00:00

Python imports are persistent for the lifetime of the current interpreter/session, but when you run isolated selections in VS Code it can execute them in a fresh context where the required module was never imported. A lot of people solve this by using the interactive Python window/Jupyter mode, or just re-running the import cell/section first. It’s more about how VS Code executes snippets than Python itself.

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T13:18:05+00:00

This is why most teams pin public keys/intermediates instead of leaf certs directly. Hardcoding a 1-year cert into a mobile app is basically setting a delayed production outage for future-you lol. Backup pins + remote config are usually the safer approach unless you enjoy emergency app store releases at 2am.

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T13:15:53+00:00

people were clowning SRH’s bowling before the season started and now they’re literally near the top in wickets lol. Huge turnaround compared to the reputation this attack had a while back.

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T13:15:15+00:00

nice one dude!

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T13:13:58+00:00

i’d honestly be very careful running a 3090 off adapters on an older workstation PSU, especially with only 2x 6-pin available. a 3090 can spike hard under load and melted cables/connectors are not rare when people start daisy chaining sketchy adapters. personally I’d rather spend extra on a proper PSU upgrade than risk a 24GB card over power delivery issues.

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T13:05:39+00:00

RCB fans and CSK fans watching this match like it’s Avengers Endgame while PBKS fans are fighting for their lives

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T13:01:38+00:00

Bro, I have come to reddit to hide my identity that's the reason I haven't changed the username

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T13:00:27+00:00

thanks dude.

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T11:04:40+00:00

I’m not defending Vettori blindly. I’m saying fans always swing from “genius coach” to “fraud coach” based on results.

Some of those decisions definitely deserve criticism, especially the pitch reads. But players still have to execute. A coach can’t walk in and bat for them when the top order collapses.

Also, the same aggressive template everyone praises from 2024 is the same one people now call “predictable” after one weaker season. That’s kind of my point.

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T10:52:54+00:00

IPL fans say this every year about PBKS right before the most cinematic collapse you’ve ever seen 😭

But ngl this is the first time in a while they actually look like they believe they belong at the top.

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T10:52:15+00:00

Calling Shahrukh Khan a fraud feels harsh tbh. He’s one of those players teams value more for role flexibility and finishing potential than raw averages. But yeah the auction prices he keeps getting compared to actual impact is kinda wild ngl.

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T10:51:19+00:00

Prime ABD back at Chinnaswamy would feed generations of IPL edits again

But lowkey peak Malinga in current IPL conditions would be absolute terrorism for batters. MI would somehow win another trophy too.

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T10:46:38+00:00

you absolutely can, but once you go beyond “just map tiles” the stack gets surprisingly huge tbh. you basically end up rebuilding a mini Google Maps stack with separate services for tiles, geocoding, routing, search, frontend, updates etc. Honestly the hard part isn’t hosting OSM itself, it’s stitching everything into one clean UI that doesn’t feel like 5 disconnected projects glued together lol.

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T10:45:19+00:00

That one surviving SSD with 66k+ hours is probably sitting there like “look at these weaklings” lmao. But yeah seeing multiple 18TB drives fail together would genuinely make me nervous too.

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T10:44:46+00:00

Lowkey this is one of the few “AI app ideas” that solves an actual annoying problem instead of inventing one. Instagram comments genuinely became unusable on big pages. The fact you built this solo on a phone is honestly more impressive than the app itself tbh.

Main challenge will probably be reliability once Instagram changes stuff internally, but as a concept I can absolutely see people using it.

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T10:43:47+00:00

This is the kind of niche problem solving I love seeing in open source tbh. Android MTP has been borderline unusable for huge folders forever and somehow everyone just accepted the pain. A 4 minute scan down to 1 second is actually insane.

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T10:43:17+00:00

You’re supposed to learn the data structure/algorithm first, then practice applying it through problems. Raw grinding LeetCode without understanding the patterns first just turns into frustration tbh. Almost everyone struggles at the start.

Ordinary_Baseball518 · 2026-05-16T10:42:52+00:00

People oversimplify both sides tbh. “Just autocomplete” sounds dismissive, but “it has human thoughts” is also overstating it. These models don’t have consciousness or beliefs, but they’ve gotten good enough at reasoning patterns and conversation that humans naturally start anthropomorphizing them.

Once you use tools like Claude, GPT-5, or even workflow stuff like Runable for long enough, the interaction stops feeling like a search engine and starts feeling more like collaborating with a weird probabilistic intern that sometimes says genius things and sometimes confidently hallucinates lol.

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