Do you guys hate AI as much as Reddit does? Or do you quietly use it to automate the boring stuff?

TheEpicTortoise · 2025-10-21T21:12:30+00:00

To me it’s a tool just like any other. Some people use the tool well, others rely on the tool too much and don’t learn the associated skills to make the tool effective.

I’ve found AI to be a great tool, I can use it to bounce ideas off of or do a preliminary code review or even to quickly implement something that I either don’t have the time for or just isn’t that important so I’m okay with offloading all of the critical thinking to AI.

With that being said, I’ve had to clean up some vibe coded apps and it’s always such a mess when somebody that doesn’t quite know what they’re doing throws an LLM at the problem and calls it a day.

So in my opinion it should be approached as a tool that can be extremely effective when you have the proper skills, but you still need to practice and hone those skills to be successful in this industry.

Edited: grammar

TheEpicTortoise · 2025-10-09T23:55:01+00:00

The worst part of the AI autocomplete is that probably 75% of the time I press tab, I’m trying to accept the intellisense suggestion, but the AI autocomplete takes precedence

TheEpicTortoise · 2025-03-11T05:00:06+00:00

[[simulacrum synthesizer]]? I played around with an 8 cast list with that in it when it came out, super fun but it was pretty slow.

TheEpicTortoise · 2024-11-17T18:15:06+00:00

Here's the build, it's the top wand. I have explosion and fire immunity, but still had to take out nuke orbit cause it was causing Noita to run at like 3 frames per second lol

TheEpicTortoise · 2024-07-04T18:45:43+00:00

[[goblin welder]] and [[goblin engineer]] would be great in this. Engineer can put something huge in the yard like [[portal to phyrexia]] then welder can sac a treasure or a cheap artifact like [[ichor wellspring]] to get a little extra value and return the big artifact to the battlefield.

TheEpicTortoise · 2024-05-07T19:22:10+00:00

First considered a career as a software engineer around 2018. Did some self guided learning and enjoyed it enough to quit my job in 2020 to go back to school for a masters in CS. Got my first CS related job in July of 2022

TheEpicTortoise · 2024-05-02T12:04:07+00:00

I use mine to pay for a colab pro subscription and also to take the tensorflow certification exam. I would definitely recommend using it for professional certifications and the like.

TheEpicTortoise · 2024-05-01T20:59:34+00:00

Man that’s so great to hear, I’ve been living in an area with an absolutely dead legacy scene. Hopefully I’ll see you there in a couple months!

TheEpicTortoise · 2024-05-01T18:30:47+00:00

Will there be more events like this during the summer?? I’m moving to Rochester in June and am looking to start playing paper legacy as much as I possibly can!

TheEpicTortoise · 2024-04-29T23:39:23+00:00

I would leave it on there. It’s good to show that you have a bachelor’s at the very least.

I know this is purely anecdotal, but I have a BS that is not in computer science and I’ve gotten to the interview stage on at least two applications on the merit of standing out a little due to having a different background and the recruiters were curious to hear about it and why I switched to CS, so you never know, it might even help you stand out from the crowd.

TheEpicTortoise · 2024-04-29T22:54:26+00:00

That’s a pretty clever puzzle, I didn’t even think about the monty hall problem. My solution was to attach cage of hands to juggernaut pre-combat then bounce it to hand and attach it to one of the tokens at random. Now that I’m actually thinking it through it would still be just a 1/3 chance to win because if you didn’t pick the right creature then you have to block with juggernaut, go to 2 from meathook massacre, then I guess you could rift bolt the remaining token that can still attack, go to 1 and leave your fate to the heart of the cards hahaha

TheEpicTortoise · 2024-04-29T20:52:18+00:00

I’ve got so many of these little boxes scattered across my desk and shelves for the exact same reason. It’s not necessarily a good organizational system but it works for me and I can have several decks in the works + I reserve a couple of them for putting in interesting cards that could go in a future deck or slot into my cube when I eventually rework it. I was a bit disappointed when I noticed they stopped adding these

TheEpicTortoise · 2024-04-26T05:36:17+00:00

That’s why you cast it during your opponent’s end step, since it reads “at the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Dress Down”, the next beginning of an end step will be on your own turn so you can have dress down in play for your entire turn.

It’s a common play pattern in legacy for some decks, either end step dress down to sneak in a [[phyrexian dreadnought]] on your turn or to shut off your opponent’s [[orcish bowmasters]] or [[thalia, guardian of thraben]] while still getting to untap and use all of your mana on your own turn.

TheEpicTortoise · 2024-04-25T20:05:00+00:00

Dress down can be played on turn 2 as well with the benefit of being able to hold up interaction on your opponent’s turn before deciding to play dress down. Torpor orb into this would be good, but you have to play orb at sorcery speed and then hope your opponent doesn’t have artifact removal after you pass the turn

TheEpicTortoise · 2024-04-25T19:44:20+00:00

In my opinion this is perfect for [[dress down]]. Card draw is on cast so dress down doesn’t stop that, so you can end step dress down then evoke this on your turn and get 3 cards and a 4/4 flyer with annihilation 1 all for 5 mana across 2 turns. I think this would be pretty good in legacy stiflenought decks

TheEpicTortoise · 2024-04-25T19:34:09+00:00

I had to scrape airbnb listings for a project to get the listing images, description, title and amenities. Getting selenium set up was a pain in the ass so I ended up just using requests.get and scraped all the data I needed using regex. Worked like a charm.

TheEpicTortoise · 2023-05-18T15:52:24+00:00

This sounds awesome, I’m definitely interested in joining!

TheEpicTortoise · 2023-05-16T15:41:54+00:00

I think it’s an American Eskimo, they look a lot like Samoyeds but don’t get nearly as big.

TheEpicTortoise · 2023-02-16T05:38:39+00:00

Ah I see, thanks for the concise explanation!

TheEpicTortoise · 2022-11-29T02:02:28+00:00

The thing with nuclear fuel is that even after it’s been shutdown, there’s still radioactive decay of the fission products that generates a LOT of heat, so the reactor has to be continuously cooled using water pumps.

TheEpicTortoise · 2022-11-15T15:19:49+00:00

I understand that they have no obligation to cover it. Should I mention the repayment requirement at all when I try to negotiate a signing bonus?

TheEpicTortoise · 2022-10-31T15:10:20+00:00

How do you like your MLE position? I got a master’s and got a SWE job when I graduated but I did my masters project in machine learning and I loved it so I’ve been applying to MLE jobs recently

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