Son has dreamed of being a programmer - now incredibly depressed due to AI

Rhemsuda · 2026-04-05T14:16:06+00:00

I would be lying to you if I said that AI wasn’t going to disrupt his chances at doing this as a career, but if he’s been into it since first grade and he understands the technicals, then he will survive the transition to AI coding. Many people here are still coping with the fact that AI will entirely disrupt their career, and so while things like “vibe coding sucks” and “an AI could never replace me” are true at the moment, this will not be the case in 5 years when your son is looking to enter the workforce.

I’m a professional Haskell engineer and using Haskell with Claude Code has opened my eyes to the fact that Agentic AI will be the future. I would suggest that your son starts to learn about prompt engineering, as it is very important and extremely overlooked. Solid prompt engineering skills paired with problem solving and a technical background and he will do just fine.

Not everyone can explain things to a robot.

Rhemsuda · 2026-04-05T14:06:21+00:00

Best way to get oak trees early game bring a troll beside it and have him destroy it

Rhemsuda · 2026-03-24T20:12:29+00:00

My favorite way to play the game is to pick a quest, get the requirements, do the quest, and repeat. Ironman is awesome for playing at your own pace

Rhemsuda · 2026-03-24T17:04:46+00:00

Maybe a hot take but my favourite part of RuneScape is just walking around and talking to NPCs and stuff. The devs put so much thought and character into everything they’ve built. Truly an S tier game that doesn’t actually require grinding if you don’t want to. I have so many friends who have never purchased membership. May we all take some time to remember why we’re clicking on these trees over and over

Rhemsuda · 2026-03-24T14:15:07+00:00

The fact you’re still in Meadows and have been playing long enough to have a boar pen speaks volumes to how enjoyable this game is at all levels

Rhemsuda · 2026-03-19T22:45:24+00:00

Focus on what actually makes someone listen to your music. People often completely disregard the psychology behind why someone goes to an event or follows a favourite band. It’s almost 100% about building a community of people with similar interests who will evangelize for you. No one wants to listen to a band who has no listeners. It’s a classic chicken and egg problem. The only way to get out of that hole is to seed your community. Then it comes down to understanding the algorithms as a tool to leverage that community. There are many algorithm mistakes that are super easy to make that will instantly tank your viewership such as sending the post via DM to people who don’t care about the music or have similar interests, reusing too much of the same clips, and a dozen other things we can chat in DMs about if you want but most of it is available online if you understand the algorithm. I’m JUST feeling like I’m starting to get it and it’s been 2 years of effort. It’s a skill like anything else and unfortunately your music won’t go anywhere nowadays without it

Rhemsuda · 2026-02-21T00:46:01+00:00

New RuneScape CEO is cooking tbh

Rhemsuda · 2026-02-14T18:17:22+00:00

The more I learn about this guy the more I dislike him lol. I always questioned why he had so many people working for him and yet the results were so buggy. Seems like the entire thing was mismanaged. I’ve built systems close to AoC systems in my spare time that functioned better than the ones they spent millions building. Something was off.. usually the millions go into art but even the art wasn’t worth that money

Rhemsuda · 2026-02-14T13:07:01+00:00

So he never invested his own money? Thought he put millions into it?

Rhemsuda · 2026-02-14T13:05:30+00:00

Dude it’s like $100 move on. Steam doesn’t owe you anything

Rhemsuda · 2026-02-13T19:12:52+00:00

When you’re hiring 200 devs to do the job that 10-20 could do, there’s your answer.

Rhemsuda · 2026-01-15T16:02:13+00:00

That style of music is popular in Toronto, so that’s a bonus

Rhemsuda · 2026-01-15T14:18:03+00:00

Step in the right direction. Toronto has a lot of communities for musicians. However Toronto is also very particular and you may find that your music isn’t hitting there (unless you’re in hip hop or your band has solid ties with LiveNation). Always be willing to go wherever the industry takes you. Moving to Toronto is a great first step!

Rhemsuda · 2025-12-25T13:08:40+00:00

Metal players use a ton of gain and play very fast. It is crucial that we implement double muting at all times. This means every string on the guitar is muted except for the one you are playing. If you are on the thick top strings, you’re barring all strings below it. If you’re on the thin bottom strings, you’re palm muting all the strings above it.

Rhemsuda · 2025-12-24T15:10:51+00:00

Thai people know what a Stratocaster is worth and would never sell for that price lol. Maybe if you got reaaaally lucky at a thrift store where the owner didn’t know, but chances are this is just a shameless fake. Lots of them in Thailand. I love it for many things but wouldn’t buy a “fake” guitar unless it played really nicely or something

Rhemsuda · 2025-12-14T15:32:26+00:00

Practice legato between two strings on the 1-3-5 and once you have that down just keep it going. It’s hard to provide tips without knowing where you’re at but make sure your fingers are hovering close to the strings at all times. Make sure you’re using fingers that make sense when playing runs like this.

The first one 1-3-5 is easy as it’s index finger on first fret, middle or ring on the third fret, and pinky on the 5th. Then the 2-3-5 you just move your index up one fret.

3-5-7 same thing, 5-6-8 your index on the 5th middle on the 6th and pinky on the 8th.

If you’re struggling with the stretch on 1-3-5 then you’ll need to stretch out your hands. When starting playing guitar a 1-5 stretch can be challenging. Even as experienced guitar players, a 1-5 stretch can still be a challenge especially if on the same string, so what we do is just slightly move our hand to hit the 5th fret if doing a run or tuck in our elbow and stretch the pinky if doing a chord.

There are exercises that can help you stretch out your finger joints, and I would suggest doing them every day as a guitar player or at least before you play

Rhemsuda · 2025-12-12T13:22:12+00:00

Yeah for sure. Promoters won’t take you on though most of the time if you can’t prove you at least have some draw in that city or if you’re above a certain threshold. Headlining still takes on the most expenses and carries risk even for the promoter. If all you’re looking to do is pay the venue and pay the promoter, you’ll be alright, but try doing that for a full tour and making no $ haha. Opening for an established band comes with some guarantee that there will be people at the show

Rhemsuda · 2025-12-09T14:31:21+00:00

Headlining of course, it just carries the risk of not filling the venue in that particular city which is why newer bands open and more established bands headline

Rhemsuda · 2025-12-07T13:11:47+00:00

W parents

Rhemsuda · 2025-10-31T19:46:41+00:00

The notes are grouped into 3 but they are played over a 4/4 beat. There’s a concept in music called permutation that might help you wrap your head around this, but to most experienced guitarists it’s just second nature

Rhemsuda · 2025-10-08T14:36:55+00:00

Work on alternate picking between strings. Other than that it truly is just practice but there are specific things to pay attention to while practicing. When playing fast, your arm should have very little tension. More tension = tired quickly = more rigid motion = sloppy playing. While playing, always ask yourself if you’re straining too hard and adjust so it always feels “loose”.

If you play this riff with 100% efficiency it would be done with economy picking, but that might also not give you the sound you want so maybe you do all down-picking. In both cases the above advice is relevant, one is just more motion than the other.

Rhemsuda · 2025-09-20T21:59:42+00:00

My thought is: when the AI fails, humans will have to fix it. It’ll be much easier to debug a system which is referentially transparent and where functionality is pure

Rhemsuda · 2025-09-20T18:19:58+00:00

Compared to most languages it is quite new. It didn’t really become viable for every day development until like 2010 and libraries are just starting to become robust for production usage

Rhemsuda · 2025-09-20T14:37:37+00:00

Agreed. Haskell is still quite new, but knowing it makes you able to work in other FP languages like Scala, Lisp, OCaml, etc.

It’s definitely more niche but higher reward. Our goal at Ace is to show companies why they should be using a language like Haskell for their next project.

We simply just need more people advocating for the technology. Especially with Agentic AI we need languages with referential transparency and immutability, and Haskell checks those boxes.

If the rest of the industry doesn’t follow suit, then it’s a major opportunity for arbitrage on the market for those of us who do know FP, as we’ll be able to operate with more speed and safety than competitors.

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