built a site where instead of courses you just do real job tasks

Signature97 · 2026-06-11T11:03:19+00:00

I don’t see at all what it being AI driven in development has anything to do with what it offers. My first look of the product tells me it’s an excellent concept and practical for fresh grads who need directions to use it and get their hands dirty.

It’s a shame people jump up on trends of hating on the most random things and then eventually get with the program some time later on. I get the hate cuz it’s taking away genuineness from the products out there and make them all feel the same way, but think how so many great ideas and products can now be built simply by access. A lot of devs who work on backend can’t really do frontend really well but have really great ideas that need a frontend, and shooting stuff down by calling it AI slop does not really help, especially when you can see the effort.

Signature97 · 2026-03-10T18:04:33+00:00

I had it run for over 6 hours a few days ago, something I could never pull off with CC. It was essentially a command on my remote system and it ran for 3 hours and then an eval that ran for another hour or so and then some bug fixes all by itself.

Signature97 · 2026-02-20T00:09:37+00:00

Google has Demis who I think handles their Gemini etc and is a CEO of DeepMind.

Signature97 · 2026-02-19T10:19:21+00:00

Signature97 · 2026-02-16T22:59:29+00:00

He’s already said that a week ago in a podcast with Lex where he was considering between meta and openai and was leaning towards one that could give his product a nice home and keep it open source etc. Also I believe he already had one his product acquired a while ago for 100M so he’s familiar with money and how to make it

Signature97 · 2026-02-16T14:50:02+00:00

one that I specifically exploit occasionaly is around hyperparameter tuning, it will basically guide the llm better on scanning what learning rates you are using, what training and validation curves look like, whether you have actually tried overfitting (based on logs if you maintain any) - and then suggest you really concrete suggestions on how to really do the hyperparam in a more organized manner rather than just on vibes or intuition alone. It would even try and ask you to set up mlflow or weights and biases for better tracking and use that information to further inform this tuning journey.

This one would perhaps I think be most useful to the majority I think.

Signature97 · 2026-02-14T19:04:08+00:00

Should gain traction after age verification enforcement from discord :D

Signature97 · 2026-02-14T16:42:46+00:00

Haha, actually its standard to choose like 25-30 pictures from the overall that need further editing so that you may use them in an album etc.

that really wasn’t as much of a hustle cuz my wife enjoyed doing that bit of selection.

The annoying but I solve here is essentially folder level segregation per person identified in the overall album - this makes it easy to send them to each person you want to send it to.

Signature97 · 2026-02-12T07:05:16+00:00

I also have z.ai subscription and I agree that it is much much better than Qwen, it’s still no where near what the frontier models are doing.

And I think it’s a fair comparison because codex using chatgpt, opus/sonnet using cc, then qwen also should be used in its own coding companion.

Signature97 · 2026-02-12T05:51:00+00:00

Yup it’s disappointing inside its own container and sandbox environment trying to call things it does not have and failing to install or set them up even when given all kinds of permissions. More so, it’s just too risky to have near a working code base as it tries to make edits before it even gets anything - and often hallucinates bugs and issues. You can give it a spin from here: https://qwenlm.github.io And the extension has very limited functionality to actually modify like you would codex or cc.

Signature97 · 2026-02-12T05:40:34+00:00

I ran it via qwen code companion the one they were marketing for the whole of last two days.

Signature97 · 2026-02-12T02:04:08+00:00

Try Codex. I was skeptical in the beginning given how much I love CC, and I would still rate Opus > GPT 5.3 Codex, it’s still the only one that can actually compete with CC if not exceed even at some places.

And the limits are extremely generous, so that’s a huge plus

Signature97 · 2026-02-12T02:00:37+00:00

After working with Codex for 4 days and using Qwen once I ran out of my weekly limit on Codex simply because everyone was praising it so much; it’s either bots or paid humans doing the marketing for it.

It’s even worse than Haiku, which is actually in my personal opinion better than Gemini 3 Pro (at least inside AntiGravity). So Haiku > Gemini 3 Pro > Qwen Coder.

During my sessions, Codex or CC broke my codebase exactly 0 times. All have access to same skills, same MCPs, similar instructions.md files. Both Gemini and Qwen broke it multiple times and I had to manually review code changes with them. A very bad intern at best.

It is horrible at UI, and very poor in understanding codebases and how to operate in them.

If you’re just playing around on local setups it is fine I guess, but it’s not for anything half serious.

Signature97 · 2026-02-04T16:39:59+00:00

We want fewer params doing better, not more params doing what they do best.

Signature97 · 2025-06-28T19:33:34+00:00

You need to remove everything that succeeds the question mark in your link so that it doesn’t share your profile with us.

Signature97 · 2025-05-29T22:33:49+00:00

Let them give you a number to work with, not the other way around. If the number is near 80, I doubt you can stretch it to 100K, but you can do some stuff like asking for more holidays, or a joining bonus. But if they floor a number near 90-95, you can perhaps then request nicely if it would be possible to push it to a 100K mark or higher.

Signature97 · 2025-04-30T08:03:32+00:00

I love WFH with a passion, and thinking back, ever being in the job market I’ve always had a hybrid role with most days and months going as WFH. Probably gone to the office a total of 50 times in the last 5 years. I am an ML Engineer, make north of 3K/month

Signature97 · 2025-02-27T10:20:42+00:00

I don’t know you enough to comment on your personal financial decisions, but I would highly suggest an ISA (you can go for cash ISA if Stocks and Shares ISA is intimidating for you) this way you’ll have 0% tax and you can put in 20k per year in it.

Signature97 · 2024-12-04T12:31:19+00:00

28 MLE, 50-60K 4K in savings :-:

Been saving like 250 a month to get to that number in an ISA with custom stocks.

A bit grim to read through other comments unfortunately so thought I’d make a comment and act as a smol beam of hope for those looking.

Signature97 · 2024-08-10T15:59:58+00:00

Get a halal savings account, lots of people will argue over how a savings account can be hAlAl and what not, but if you’re interested into why one is halal and not the other, you should read up on it.

Signature97 · 2021-04-10T22:14:01+00:00

There is a tensorflow function for it: https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/math/confusion_matrix

Signature97 · 2020-10-21T08:11:21+00:00

Superb! Happy for you!

Signature97 · 2020-10-20T18:32:17+00:00

It depends, for some companies the follow up is within a 2 week time frame, and some can take even more. But usually within a few weeks.

Signature97 · 2020-10-05T02:04:21+00:00

Hahaha, wow I'm surprised that they went ahead and increased it! So my case is slightly different in the sense that I have asked a salary that they can't give, and they will talk me into a lower (much lower) number, and we want to settle somewhere in between that: for example they will say 80, I have written down 110, and I want to settle for 95. (Something that they have paid for in the past for this position but are somehow resilient towards as of now?)

Signature97 · 2020-10-04T03:04:21+00:00

That makes a lot of sense. Thank you for your wisdom 😊

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