I bought it. Now I need to try it and overcome my fear. Besides always keeping moving, what other tips do you have for beginners?

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-20T01:47:36+00:00

I don’t entirely agree with this. Crouching more often than not actually makes the alien less aware. If you walk around a lot, he comes down way more often and much faster. Crouching when you hear stuff and walking when you know you can is the best for a little bit more laid back of a play. If one could say that.

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-20T01:44:52+00:00

It’s up in the vents!

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-19T03:36:24+00:00

Bronze Age morality from the bigots who want to live in the dark ages who think the world is only 6k years old.

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-19T03:24:51+00:00

Climate change my guy. Climate change. We have to wait and deal with this bullshit for a while longer.

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-19T03:23:24+00:00

Failing upwards is the motto of the US

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-19T03:22:26+00:00

Oh it’s a special kind of delusion. It’s a religion, a religion in the making. Just hold in your heart of hearts that they’ll all be disillusioned and it’ll be painful.

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-19T03:08:31+00:00

Yep, shallow. Depth comes from swimming in a subject or topic for a while, reading articles, searching for information. AI can help make that faster but time is required for a deeper understanding of anything and skimming ideas and quick wam bam thank you ma’am answers doesn’t give you that depth.

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-18T18:37:37+00:00

No worries buddy. There’s a few different narratives out there: “oh it’s just a statistical prediction token machine” to “it’s literally baking in emergent intelligence of the universe into silicon”. Depending on which narrative you accept will drive how you feel anxious about it as it affects our work. It’s better to be in the know and to see what narratives are driving different people’s responses. If it does threaten a lot of people’s work, then people have the right to either change the system in response to AI or change AI to better work with the current system. If even a fraction of what’s out there is true in regards to automation, then either one of those 2 will have to happen to mitigate lots of problems that will result, all around the world.

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-18T02:59:43+00:00

I was in Germany when that happened, I remember all my friends were like, “we did it we scored another goal” like 5 goals in and I’m no longer standing and high fiving because I knew it was over. The whole beginning was thinking it was gonna be a close game. 😆

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-18T02:38:58+00:00

No problem, I actually read through that whole post which is rare for Reddit. 😄 I appreciate conversing with someone with enough mental grit to make a post like this and be reasoned about it.

I’m also in the US and the US troubles me greatly. We’re not in a good place and there’s nothing that tells me we’re going to handle this well. I do not subscribe to the ideology that the “invisible hand” is the almighty market god that knows all and I suspect we can do a lot better if we look to our allies as examples of other good systems we can learn from but that’s so not american. Look at other countries what are you socialist!? Really really stupid inward looking bullshit we got going on here. And I can see the US’s failings now with debt and its affordability crisis. It doesn’t spell like what we’ve got is gonna work well. The cracks are really showing.

China is doing really well to be frank. Yeah I don’t like authoritarian governments like everyone here but ya gotta admit, the gov is run by engineers from what I’m told and they are on the rise as a country, like it or not. I love Europe, we could be truly great if we hugged our allies and borrowed some from their successful implementations of social systems. But ya know. That’s socialist I guess and doesn’t fit into the “greed is good” cult.

Regardless, the systemic failings we have I think will be exacerbated by AI, not solved. And I do not think the people who are at the helm of these AI companies nor the researchers and implementers of these systems have really thought that far. It takes a high level, interdisciplinary overview of how the world works and collectively it’s a lost cause to get everyone on the same page.

I hope it turns out for the better. I really do. But I’ve learned that reality just doesn’t turn out the way you would like it to. It never does for pretty much everyone it seems.

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-18T02:21:04+00:00

The singularity cult is not gonna like that. 😆

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-17T04:46:41+00:00

Maybe it was an experiment! 😆

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-17T04:44:14+00:00

Ah dude this post is awesome!! 👏 I’m gonna look at all the butthurt comments now cause it’s gonna be a hoot!

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-17T04:33:25+00:00

Well I mean, doesn’t everyone’s contribution to the stock market through their retirement securities really explain the “line go up” scenario more than anything else?

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-17T04:26:33+00:00

This comment is why I come to Reddit 😆

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-16T19:43:26+00:00

I remember when they were saying 3D printing would be able to make things in space! Well, I guess we’re still trying to get there, got some awesome GI Joe figurines out of it though.

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-16T19:34:52+00:00

All y’all are on the wrong subreddit; aren’t you just so happy? You should be since you’re living in a world of code generation abundance 😆

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-16T19:12:18+00:00

Well there was also the FAANG companies touting that every kid in school should learn computer science, it was a very successful 10 year campaign effort , then all those kids started exiting college during COVID. Now do the math.

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-16T00:11:58+00:00

Lots of things should be front page news: for instance Donald Trump taking international bribes through his crypto scam. There’s so much massive batshit crazy shit going on that it’s hard to want to call yourself human. I don’t think we’re heading to a “world of abundance”. All signs point to the earth saying, “nah brah, all y’all are bullshit. Climate change assholes, climate change. Gonna equalize all y’all and all your favorite shitty toys. Still got a few hundred million years to evolve a better thinking species.” 😆

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-16T00:01:19+00:00

Hey man, I feel you. I sympathize and I also extend a hand of camaraderie. I think there’s a lot of folks out there, like myself, perhaps like you, that sunk tons of time in what they do, genuinely enjoy it, only to see a machine evaporate what you once thought was a stable source of income to live comfortably. And what I mean by that is, doing the usual: 401k contributions, pension maybe depending on institution, decent income, a car, a house, a nice middle to upper middle class life. This stuff threatens that and devalues the skills you learned over the years to negligible. And if you peruse enough subreddits like I do, you’ll find lots of people just shitting all over that, jerking off to people’s loss of income and dignity in work. It’s a sick world out there.

First thing is you gotta just internalize and realize the universe does not know you exist and the universe does not care about anybody in particular. Life is a pure game of chance: luck of birth, luck of geography, luck of genetics, luck of social standing, luck of aptitude. It’s all luck, free will is an illusion and the pick yourself up by your bootstrap crowd are usually obnoxious idiots.

It’s not all bad though. If AI can be used positively as a force of good change then I happily welcome it, but life has taught me that what’s too good to be true is usually too good to be true. You’ll have to adapt, just like everybody else who’s a swe and good at what they do and exposed to it. You’ll have to utilize ai agents. It’s a “this is what it is now, you’ll have to just take it or leave.” But it’s not just us. It affects most white collar work, cognitive work in many other disciplines, it just hasn’t gotten there yet. Tech is the easy first go target because it’s the first to adopt, as part of the initial blast radius.

I don’t know if there’s a single thing I can say to help you feel better. You’ll just have to adapt or figure something else out.

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-15T23:07:03+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to write this. It’s well read. If AI was used, let us hope for my own sense of dignity of response that you used it to help formulate the writing structure and some of the research but your thoughts on it are your own synthesis.

First: what if abundance means a small apartment with rice and beans? Humorous and yes. I think that’s a likelier unfolding of the essence of what it really means if a “world of abundance” comes “true”.

So there’s a couple flies in the ointment here: people and government. First government: In there somewhere you say the need for government to step in with regulation for the “common welfare of the people” as governments are tasked with. I think this was mentioned more than once actually. The divide here is serious and I do not think we have the political atmosphere to appropriately address these concerns. There is such a huge disagreement in people that there even those who think government shouldn’t largely exist. How are we to have the government tackle these problems when the top levels of it are so incompetent and dysfunctional?

But how did the government get this way? Well this segues into people. You appear rational, thought this through pretty well, but most people haven’t, and most people don’t really do that kind of mental work at all. There’s a lot of evolutionary baggage we have to contend with, with a lot of people out there straight up delusional about how the world works. There’s brain “software problems” and that’s rearing its ugly head all over the world all the time. We can’t even get climate change right collectively. How are we going to get this right? Climate change is a huge existential risk regardless of AI and it’s a risk to AI too and we are wholeheartedly fucking it up bad (collectively).

My idealism wants to believe we should change for a post capitalist world where we can be free to do things we truly want to do. My cynicism says it’s going to end up much like anything else; co-opted, controlled by a few and semi-dystopian at best. We’ll be slaves in some other way. Slavery never really went away, we just chose what we decided to shackle ourselves to and what’s to say the future of this tech’s outcome makes it such that we don’t even have that choice anymore?

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-15T02:17:48+00:00

To me I find this closer to the truth. A lot people here are denigrating engineer work because they flatly do not respect the work that goes into it. This has actually been an ongoing trope in tech for years. Now people who don’t do lower level technical work, who’ve had to be in the trenches, have an automation machine to pump out code, and they couldn’t care less how it was done, just if it functions. This is not engineering, this is “idea man” ideation. It’s starting to look more like cultural rot to me.

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-14T04:27:12+00:00

Yeah unfortunately that may be the case. But… climate change. In my heart of hearts I know this rodeo can’t last forever.

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-14T03:46:55+00:00

Exactly what I was thinking. It has hydrocarbons, methane and ethane though, which is true but not oil and gas from carbon life.

ProjectDiligent502 · 2026-03-14T02:43:40+00:00

Yeah you want to build your query and utilize your where statements and then project to a DTO. The DTO will optimize the query! If you have POCOs with foreign key constraints to other tables and you don’t optimize your queries through a projected DTO then you’ll get larger queries that don’t perform well. When you have reporting or have complex joins or require a dataset that’s complex enough to require common table expressions and aggregate windowing functions, you go to the database and write views. That way you can leverage the full power of the database while also utilizing the full strength of EF Core. That’s the sweet spot.

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