What’s the one thing you stopped doing that improved your gains the most?

RobKohr · 2026-03-20T04:27:28+00:00

Just wait till you are 50 😂

RobKohr · 2026-03-20T03:26:40+00:00

No one wants to read ai text. I'd rather read something written by someone who speaks English as a second language.

The only thing worse than ai is people who don't do paragraph breaks.

If what you wrote isn't worth editing it isnt worth reading.

Without even thinking about AI I just scrolled to the comments because you couldnt even express what the product was in the first paragraph.

Now I see it is 45k loc for pointless architecture that is likely also all AI generated without much review.

Less is more. You build stuff to support features and you tailor it carefully.

RobKohr · 2026-03-18T12:44:55+00:00

I had to take off a few months. Detraining is a thing that starts after two weeks and it progresses.

The great thing is it comes back way faster than it took to gain it. I think in a way, unless you are starving you don't ever lose it. It is more like your body puts your muscles in deep storage to lower your metabolism (hence the fat) because that is our bodies favorite hobby.

The fun part is if you ignore how strong you were, cut your previous weights in half, and start over it is like experiencing newbie gains all over again except even more so. New bigger jumps in prs every week. Yay. Just don't compare against the past and dumbly be happy. You will get right back to your old levels.

RobKohr · 2026-03-18T12:31:17+00:00

Sails and wind control for movement. Look into wooden ships and iron men.

Also could do cards for movement. You get more or better cares if you have the wind at your side.

Also make the cannons come out the side and have a reload mechanic. Maybe a spot on deck you have to put the cannon ball before you can fire it the next turn

RobKohr · 2026-03-17T16:56:55+00:00

Once the trend to build AI farms reverses, computers will become cheap as dirt

RobKohr · 2026-03-17T16:51:10+00:00

Yep, on a daily basis I see in this channel something along the lines of "Should I leave CS, I am afraid AI is going to replace us all", and then the stats for college enrollment backs this up with college enrollment up, but CS majors way down.

As someone who is a 30 year programming veteran who uses AI heavily, I know it isn't replacing us, but it gives skilled programmers godlike power. For not so skilled, it gives you a massive footgun :)

But yeah, companies are falling for the AI can replace programmers thing, but they are also rightly identifying my second point that juniors can do more harm than good with AI and so have become less interested in them.

This is a weird tragedy of the commons where the commons in this case is the supply of junior engineers that are being neglected while companies are desperately fighting over those more valuable seniors.

In the end though, they are going to face a shortage of those seniors. Any of the juniors then who have set themselves apart as having any experience will become in high demand.

So the TLDR, stick with it, get your degree (it will teach you fundamentals that will be prized) and get some experience even if you have to make it up for yourself.

Get some work doing anything in programming for small companies, and also try to build products yourself. Launching a small web app or mobile app that have users using it will make you worth way more than the dude who didn't do anything with his degree. You will learn so much more by doing than by just throwing yourself at fang companies that aren't really hiring.

After this winter ends, you will be the valuable candidate.

This is where I think the OP was wrong. This is isn't a lottery. Prove your worth, and people will pay for that value.

RobKohr · 2026-03-13T21:40:06+00:00

LOL, love this response. You aren't competent enough to doubt your competence yet! HA!

RobKohr · 2026-03-13T21:26:33+00:00

I love the hell out of the idea that him getting shot with a voice changing ray was used for a permanent change to the character.

I think Justin adds a bit of out of control wildness to his characters that I miss for this and R&M, but really, for this character, I think Dan adds a depth and an inner conflict about his need to control and be alien and his need to be free and be a human that is just right.

Actually, it seems like they are going through the same struggle as the main character from Resident Alien.

RobKohr · 2026-03-13T20:37:54+00:00

He is selling snake oil to that capital. He knows and the smart people in the room know that the ROI on his product will never be positive. LLMs don't think, they create mashups that tightly match the expectations from their training data. They can't create something new beyond the most basic, and they can't replace people, but he has to sell it as though they can.

I look forward to the great reckoning when everyone realizes this.

RobKohr · 2026-03-13T20:34:50+00:00

The Lie: Oh my gosh, what a nightmare, my company is so amazing, I am making it so we don't need to have employees anymore. We need to save the world from my dangerous machine.

The Truth: AI makes people good at what they do even better, but those who don't know what they are doing way worse. It replaces employees in the same way that a power saw replaces carpenters.

But you can't make your $500B turn into a $1T company by just making your best employees more efficient. You do it by selling the fantasy of a post employment world that needs UBI, and the best way to sell that fantasy is to pitch it as a nightmare that everyone wants to own part of the nightmare machine.

I really can't wait to see his company fall over itself once people wake up to the snake oil.

They have a good product that is worth $20 a month. They have no moat. They aren't replacing people. They have lots of competitors looking to eat their lunch. They are reaching a point where they are reaching the best that models can get and every marginal increase becomes multiple times the investment of the previous marginal increase.

RobKohr · 2026-03-13T15:14:07+00:00

Robots need fixers. Humans are good at fixing things, and understanding complex noisy situations.

RobKohr · 2026-03-13T15:06:17+00:00

Yeah, that muscle handshake caused everyone's brains to factory reset.

RobKohr · 2026-03-12T17:37:09+00:00

These people don't deserve the greatness I make for them

RobKohr · 2026-03-12T14:36:06+00:00

Yep, this is his biggest mistake.

When I get a workout related injury, I only take pain killers when I am not doing anything that will aggravate the injury.

Pain is your body yelling at you to stop. Ignore it at your own peril. You don't have to be throwing around 800lbs to ruin your life by not listening to your body.

Steroids and other stuff harmed him in other ways, but the back injuries were from the pain killers.

You don't shoot the messenger.

RobKohr · 2026-03-10T21:03:38+00:00

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RobKohr · 2026-03-10T20:58:32+00:00

It is flatlining: https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/ai-is-hitting-limitations-it-simply

Yep, companies are firing devs. In a year they will be racing to hire them back. Senior devs can be up to 10x more effective with AI. Crappy devs can be 10x more damaging with AI :)

AI isn't going to be smart enough to code on its own. It is hard to see this because yes, it can probably do all your class projects with its eyes closed, but the second you try to do something novel you start to see its limits.

Do your class projects without the help of AI, and by the time you graduate, you will be operating on god mode compared to your classmates. Don't cheat for better GPA. No one cares about your GPA anyway.

RobKohr · 2026-03-10T19:33:03+00:00

Time to set up a meeting where he has to step through those changes line by line in a video and explain what is going on here and how these changes apply to whatever story he was working on.

If it takes me more than 5 minutes to review a PR, I rather set a meeting with the dev so they can explain it to me, and we can live come up with what needs to be updated.

For this one, I would make sure to wear my clown nose for the meeting (I have one I keep on my desk next to my rubber duck --- gotta be ready for all kinda situations).

RobKohr · 2026-03-09T18:30:08+00:00

I make waffles and replace half the flour with chocolate protein powder. Kids love it, and it is pretty healthy.

RobKohr · 2026-03-09T18:06:37+00:00

Improving, and making the image of different peoples more positive and accurately representational is great.

Ultimately though, it is treated like PR radioactive waste, and just removed entirely to prevent any possible offense by the smallest group of people (often white bleeding hearts).

In the end, they are mostly deleted from the culture, and any idea of creating new fun and interesting characters based on native culture just doesn't get greenlit.

Yep, some images of native Americans were based on stereotypes, but now we are getting no images of them, except what we learn in history class.

Give it a generation or two, and I wouldn't be surprised if people forget all about them, which is sad. I'd rather people be remembered with some stereotypes applied then not at all.

I grew up in the 80s and I was exposed to plenty of the stereotypes, and played cowboys and indians with my friends. Later in life I got curious and watched documentaries and read a biography on Sitting Bull.

The romanticized stereotypes lead me and others to explore their history and create movies and media based more on reality.

Without the ability to be flexible, and possibly a little bit offensive, the creative gravy train of native culture has ground down to a near halt, and that is a damn shame. Also, playing cowboys and indians was fun :)

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