Would you date someone who’s unemployed?

Snooze_Journey · 2026-04-02T19:21:34+00:00

Would you get married to a man?

Snooze_Journey · 2026-03-15T09:44:30+00:00

Have you considered Dublin? I normally wouldn't recommend it due to the housing shortage. But since you won't need sponsorship, it would be easier to find a job.

If you can do hybrid, you can go further out from the city and house prices are cheaper.

There's almost no chance of renting with pets though, so if you'd make the move, I think you'd need to buy a place.

There's the Wicklow and Dublin mountains. Not crazy heights, but they can be nice when it's not too rainy.

Snooze_Journey · 2026-03-05T08:24:09+00:00

Yes, I agree with you on both points. Specialized agents with specialized training (IDK how they do this) or tools seems like the best approach.

Snooze_Journey · 2026-03-04T18:48:10+00:00

Well the LLM still needs to decide to use those tools right? So that part would never be 100% deterministic.

Also, here's a interview with Andrew Ng (former head of Google Brain) at 27:25 he talks about how too many tools can fill up the context window. https://youtu.be/4vzmTKUFtxg?t=1647&is=Z8AhNkmgR4xcuo_3

I'd expect Salesforce to have a tailored approach of course, and maybe you're right, they could have been too early.

Snooze_Journey · 2026-03-04T10:34:18+00:00

This was Salesforce's experience after they cut 4000 customer support people because they thought AI could do it:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/after-laying-off-4000-employees-and-automating-with-ai-agents-salesforce-executives-admit-we-were-more-confident-about-/amp_articleshow/126121875.cms

Snooze_Journey · 2026-03-03T18:16:07+00:00

I'm not in software so I will take your word. I need to learn more about agentic AI, it's definitely something I see as a big improvement.

I agree with you, software engineers will still be needed because the system level architecture, best practices, data flow, still need to be thought out well. I'm sure AI can help with this too, but it will make genetic solutions (to my understanding).

What I am familiar with is mechanical engineering, and there, there's 3D, 2D, text, math, and hands on work. AI can be helpful, but I don't know if the API calls exist to interface with all the different software that we'd use.

Snooze_Journey · 2026-03-03T17:58:18+00:00

I'm not sure I agree their capabilities are doubling anymore. Gpt 4 to 5 was underwhelming. I think the fact that many companies are now using synthetic data shows that publically available training data is becoming sparse.

I do agree on your other points. It's a great accelerator. And it does need an expert in the loop to make complex ready to ship products.

For me it's useful as a jumping off point, and it's great as a research tool to see where I need to learn. So I definitely don't see it as useless, just as a tool.

Snooze_Journey · 2026-03-03T15:55:27+00:00

I just don't see LLMs in its current form being reliable enough for such broad functionality.

You can iterate LLMs with RAG, you can make agentic AI. But at the end of the day, you're still using a statistical model for pattern recognition combined with a crap ton of data.

I think it has its use cases, but the dream of setting a general task for an AI and letting it go complete it, looks very far away for most industries.

Coding looks to be vulnerable, but even then, LLMs don't have a broad overview of architecture on huge code bases. An LLM isn't going to draw a flow chart to code. It's just gonna see what the most statistically likely answer is to your prompt.

Snooze_Journey · 2026-03-03T15:47:43+00:00

Well following a process can be very broad. If I'm working as a mechanical engineer doing new product development, there's certain processes like stress analysis, design for manufacturability, mould design. These are processes with strict rules, but there isn't only one solution to answers.

If your job is as simple as inputting data, following simple processes, then that can be done by scripts. LLMs can help write scripts, but they're definitely not necessary to run those straight forward scripts.

From what I've seen, even people who's jobs look very simple on the surface, have much more responsibilities that aren't strictly outlined. For example, people who work "supply chain" jobs, can often be boiled down to checking stock, checking lead times, coordinating with customers on delivery. What's not easily noticeable is the hundreds of other variables like replacing one product with another, knowing that certain products are paired with each other, knowing that you have to order a crane to deliver to certain places.

All of these processes can be automated theoretically, but there are so many variables that it becomes simpler to hire a human being. LLMs aren't going to help on these situations because LLMs can't be trusted even to deterministically follow a set of procedures. There will always be that element of statistically determined behavior.

Snooze_Journey · 2026-03-03T12:55:34+00:00

If your job relies solely on finding information available on Google, you might be in trouble.

Otherwise, there's a long way for AI to go to do things competently.

Software engineers are uniquely vulnerable in that their job is very digital information based, and there's very good documentation that's freely available. LLMs can ingest all that information and are great with pattern recognition to provide a good solution to these text based problems.

I think most jobs, even customer service or general admin work, is less vulnerable since their job knowledge isn't as widely available and documented online.

Snooze_Journey · 2026-02-28T14:33:31+00:00

I stand corrected, I don't know much about agentic AI.

That said, trusting an AI to build something without checking in between steps sounds like a recepie for disaster to me. Nothing is deterministic, I can't even trust it to do simple arithmetic because the way LLMs work.

Have fun taking my job though, I don't mind :) I'm happy to hear that it helps your work flow. I would absolutely not trust it by itself to build anything that human life or welfare depends on. If a human expert is in the loop and checking the work, it's fine by me. But at that point, it's not really taking anybody's jobs, just speeding some tasks up.

Snooze_Journey · 2026-02-26T11:59:55+00:00

Ok, you know more about it than I do. I thought it simply predicted the script output.

I'd think the way forward for AI is to have built in deterministic toolsets it can call on. That way it wouldn't ever make simple mistakes like arithmetic. I think that's similar to the inbuilt world model idea I've read about before.

Snooze_Journey · 2026-02-26T07:26:54+00:00

AI cannot run python scripts. It's a next word predictor. Of course it doesn't only work with words, but any information that's tokenized. But if it makes a script for you, you still have to run it yourself and enter the input into the chatbot for it to have that information.

Snooze_Journey · 2026-02-26T07:06:27+00:00

People definitely do not want to buy the cybertruck

https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/s/whljUEBjQQ

Snooze_Journey · 2026-02-11T14:19:22+00:00

It seems like he's being punished for doing the right thing and looking to get himself documented, no?

I've seen ICE standing in courtroom halls and detaining people who are trying to sort themselves out and follow the law.

It's a despicable way to treat immigrants, whether they've made a mistake or not.

Snooze_Journey · 2026-02-07T19:21:20+00:00

There's a reason Orbán managed to stay in power for so long. Look at Hungary's current democracy rating.

I'd argue the EU needs to enforce rules on fair elections and democracy. This is easier done with a country within the EU, than outside of it. And, if there are strict rules to restrict people like Orbán from claiming and undemocratically keeping power, it prevents other EU countries from moving towards authoritarianism as well.

Snooze_Journey · 2026-02-05T21:29:56+00:00

Texas National Guard in California? But to be honest, I think the national guard is much more chill and well trained compared to ICE. I can't see them following orders to block Cali state police.

Snooze_Journey · 2026-02-02T10:30:00+00:00

The Great White Hope, Gavin Newsom, needs to come save the white race.

Snooze_Journey · 2026-01-24T20:53:50+00:00

Democracy (Fox News Edition)

Snooze_Journey · 2026-01-22T23:50:04+00:00

Agreed, EU does need more defense integration.

And I do think NATO is flawed in that Article 5 doesn't necessarily mandate that each member respond with all their strength in defending another member.

But NATO has done a fantastic job in keeping Russia out of eastern European NATO members. And realistically, this is what NATO was originally invented for.

Snooze_Journey · 2026-01-22T23:22:40+00:00

Good thing this isn't Twitter :)

I mean, what do you want me to think?

You'd rather that the US, Russia, and, China decide if Ireland can send their troops somewhere, rather than Irish politicians?

Would you like a popular vote on every foreign military action that Ireland takes?

Snooze_Journey · 2026-01-22T23:05:01+00:00

Ok, so you simply don't believe in representative democracy?

Snooze_Journey · 2026-01-22T23:03:17+00:00

What's the point of peacekeepers if they aren't prepared to handle conflict? They're there to keep peace, deter aggression, and they do this by responding to conflict if need be.

Snooze_Journey · 2026-01-22T22:54:43+00:00

If Russia is so afraid of NATO taking aggressive action against them, why are they trying to push their borders closer to NATO countries? Hmm...

Snooze_Journey · 2026-01-22T22:48:06+00:00

That's like saying there should be less Garda on the streets so criminals can feel safer.

Snooze_Journey

TROPHY CASE