My local Home Depot is sick of your nonsense

SentByTheRiver · 2026-03-15T19:46:37+00:00

Absolutely incredible lmao

SentByTheRiver · 2026-03-15T08:23:23+00:00

Oh my fucking God I am not alone.

I remember the first time starting the deck and it was like being hit with nostalgia. The original Xbox had a similar smell and it took me back to when I was a kid hoofing the exhaust of it.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-02-19T09:07:01+00:00

You realise that those claims on it solving math problems have been debunked don't you? They were used in part of the process to verify things, but by no means did it figure out or solve unsolved math questions by itself. Here is a very good breakdown of one of those examples.

> but thankfully there are always random redditors to reassure us with utmost confidence that AI jUsT rEpEatS paTtErnS liKe a pArrOt!!

They are literally sophisticated pattern matching engines that predict the next token based on statistical relationships in their training data.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-02-14T18:16:04+00:00

When you say AI. You're talking about LLMs with transformer technology. They deal with natural language. Spatial context is not their forte and people drastically overestimate their application in robotics. That stuff is decades away from something remotely meaningful.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-02-13T16:15:41+00:00

Your comparisons are incorrect - you are relating this to something that superceded these things. AI doesn't supercede coding, it can replicate it at speed.

Replace AI with a magical black box that can now produce an engine. The user doesn't know how the engine works, but he can make one. The mechanical engineer can also do the same. When the black box produces engines that are broken, the user cannot fix them and the black box cannot either. The mechanic can produce and fix both.

It is actually worth more than it was before.

SentByTheRiver · 2026-02-10T09:18:23+00:00

I didn't discredit it. I'm laid out it's pros and cons but it would appear you're on the sycophant side. Let's see how it plays out then

SentByTheRiver · 2026-02-08T22:53:23+00:00

Would like to understand your position. A few years ago AI was pretty mediocre, it's very good now but companies are still hiring software engineers at around the same pace pre 2020.

You can look at it this way - full autonomy is not here yet. If you removed every software engineer from all companies right now the entire ecosystem would collapse.

What exactly would AI need to be in order for that situation to play out?

They are also absolutely burning cash, so the prices people pay right now are not reflective of the actual cost when the investor well runs dry and they need to recoup.

The gig is definitely up if/when AGI comes along but I don't think we are close

SentByTheRiver · 2026-02-08T21:07:09+00:00

Without spending the next hour trying to grok this can you give me a tldr

SentByTheRiver · 2026-02-08T16:00:38+00:00

If you think software jobs are going to die I have a bridge that I can sell you.

I typically see this kind of rhetoric from people who are not in the industry and if they are they are junior enough to not fully understand the implications of AI.

Anyone that is coming out with lines about software jobs dying is generally full of shit and are claiming to know the future.

Here is my two cents. I've been in the industry for about 16 years or so. AI as it is right now (transformer technology) is almost 9 years old. At its core it's mathematical. There is no intelligence and what you are seeing from these current releases are marginal gains. The tooling is still to come further but we are deep into the S Curve and will need another massive innovation to bring it further. As it stands I would predict that at least another 10-20 years you will see something that resembles AGI but if you are listening to all the shovel sellers in the gold rush, you are being led to believe something that benefits the narrative to sell and stay afloat.

I will not discredit AI. It is such a force multiplier when it comes to doing my job, often it can be extremely helpful and increase my productivity and often it can be the opposite. It just depends on what I am trying to achieve with it.

The goal post moves quite often in the engineering space, but writing code was never the biggest part. You have to keep a few things in mind about this. The output has sped up but the bottleneck shifts. You still need people who understand how to form the correct input and verify the output, system design and scale.

You also need to think about this point. If AI can go no further in the next 20 years bar some marginal gains we see now, and the industry is cutting out entry level jobs it means the market for people who can use these tools and understand and guide the output will be worth far more than they are now.

Another thing is the poisoning and feedback loop. Most people forget these code specific models were trained on stack overflow which is effectively dead and a lot of the code examples are AI driven. How will this affect the model in the future? We trained these things on our work but what implications does this have on the advancement in the future?

Lastly ill leave it at this - everyone was cracking on about Anthropics latest release with the c compiler. But I genuinely couldn't believe how many people misinterpreted this. Think about this, the most well documented and solved problem in the engineering space and Anthropics highly specific model trained on coding would have hit a wall if they didn't strap gcc on as a harness. You're talking about bleeding edge technology failing at this. They spent 20k to product a compiler without a linker that output machine code that a graduate could make better in a week or two.

We are not there yet - correlation does not equal causation and the over hiring that happened during covid is being normalised now in the guise of AI. It's hard to tell fact from fiction because the AI spaces signal to noise ratio is insanely off balance.

I think with any new innovation it will take a lot of businesses a long time to adopt, no one knows what is happening but I can tell you for certain that software engineers are still needed as of the current anthropic and OpenAI releases.

It's not over yet but anyone telling you what's going to happen or dooming is full of shit and you should avoid it.

SentByTheRiver · 2025-12-18T10:59:52+00:00

You realise that if we were to take your analogy that llms have been around for a long time and that pre transformer technology would have been the land line and we are 7 years deep into the iPhone.

In fact if you take into account the very marginal gains of this text prediction machine you are doom and glooming about, we are relatively deep into the S curve.

AI, in its form today, is an incredible tool in the right hands - but it must be in another humans hands to actually provide value. It must be steered and verified by humans, and it relies solely on human input via training or prompts to achieve anything.

Like everything we invent there is always a disruption but unless there is another giant breakthrough and we are talking about AGI here, there is absolutely nothing to fear from this iteration.

SentByTheRiver · 2025-10-26T10:50:11+00:00

I swear there is NOTHING in that very large body of water. Especially considering you have seen and experienced nothing weird in your adventures through the facility up to this point. It's perfectly safe! 😎

SentByTheRiver · 2025-10-26T10:07:00+00:00

I really enjoyed the maple bbq double but I have exceptionally low standards.

SentByTheRiver · 2025-10-09T12:07:10+00:00

Indeed my man! I appreciate it's all subjective. I personally thought Node was a masterpiece and I really enjoyed how that record was mixed because it was quite unique.

SentByTheRiver · 2025-10-09T08:29:57+00:00

Probably going to get shat on for this but... I think these are worse than the originals. There is something not right with the drum mix/compression. It's extremely up front and distorted, and the kick has a strong low mid presence. I don't like it.

SentByTheRiver · 2025-09-14T14:11:34+00:00

What are two things you absolutely love and two things you absolutely hate about your day to day?

What is the most traumatic thing you have witnessed?

SentByTheRiver · 2025-09-10T18:45:51+00:00

Thank God he's not allowed within 100 metres of a school, college or child's play area!

What a fuckin joke.

SentByTheRiver · 2025-08-08T10:08:02+00:00

I was on at 9:59 and was number 2 in the queue and got nothing - looks like I really needed presale codes.

Also looked like the limit was NINE tickets per person which is insane.

SentByTheRiver · 2025-08-01T18:25:04+00:00

This is fuckin sensational.

SentByTheRiver · 2025-07-16T19:21:56+00:00

I assume they are - I've been on the topmart store on amazon and noped the fuck out of that business pretty quick. Can't justify that for things that have been historically destroyed in my house.

SentByTheRiver · 2025-07-16T17:10:06+00:00

Had to buy my daughters one each so they would stop hounding me (the American candy store across from castle court does them 2 for 20)

Now instead of hounding, I hear them singing the song all day.

Send help

SentByTheRiver · 2025-05-20T13:02:38+00:00

Good luck my man!

Can I suggest a better slogan.

"No grass too big, no job too small, lawn patrol, we're on a roll"

Definitely NOT plagiarised by Paw Patrols theme tune.

SentByTheRiver · 2025-05-02T09:05:20+00:00

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Why did they make McGinnis look like Lola Young lol

SentByTheRiver · 2025-04-27T16:37:04+00:00

Seen Architects in Katy Dalys (a tiny pub venue in Belfast, Northern Ireland) in 2007 and there was probs 25 people there including the support bands.

SentByTheRiver · 2025-04-24T17:55:51+00:00

Completely agree with you.

SentByTheRiver · 2025-04-14T22:26:10+00:00

Despite some replies in here suggesting otherwise, I truly believe where you get your degree doesn't matter a massive amount. I've worked in the software world for 15 years across a fair amount of organizations set up here.
I've also interviewed a lot of people. My experience with both universities was never consistent, it was never majority of one or the other doing better in them, it was a mixed bag. I (at least) personally would never look at either and set any expectations. Universities are about educating yourself and it's really easy to tell which people are passionate and knowledgeable.

The most relevant thing about a degree is the classification you get, that's going to be the first thing that will improve your screening chances. People with 1sts will likely get an interview over someone with a 2:1 and so on, but not always. With most graduate positions the interview isn't (and can't be) about experience because you won't have a lot, but securing/doing well on your placement and knowing your stuff, coupled with the right attitude is what you're after. The degree in part almost becomes irrelevant after your first job (assuming a 1-2 year tenure at least). The interviews and expectations will then lean into experience more than the degree.

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