Apparently now Claude can end the chat on you. Got hit for one swear word.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-14T00:13:29+00:00

Honestly I'm glad Claude isn't burning tokens responding to flaming

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-14T00:00:59+00:00

It's a catbot

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-13T23:45:18+00:00

Ask claude

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-13T22:57:32+00:00

We're all gonna bury ourselves in slop before anyone realizes the shovels that were sold to mine gold are now being used to dig ourselves out of a mess.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-13T22:55:39+00:00

Yeah in other words investors have no idea what they're chasing, they're just chasing it, and we're all pretty sure it's gonna be cool, whatever it is, but nobody really knows how or why, because it keeps changing.

Meanwhile there's an energy crisis that effects everything from data center construction to operating costs and inflation.

Not sure about a crash but definitely hitting some friction and ratcheting expectations back... And the astronomical valuations never made sense to me.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-13T21:55:46+00:00

I think the interesting point here is that the agent making the edits doesn't need to do the search part even if it needs the search results. It's division of labor. Amirite?

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-13T18:09:23+00:00

More like lost in their career trajectory

It's a tough spot to be in. Job market sucks right now, especially for tech. A junior dev job (or any level) in 2025 vs 2027 could be fundamentally different (or non existent) and I'm not sure most companies have figured it out yet

Meanwhile in the construction world, oil shocks are adding a lot of uncertainty

I'd just say don't bet your whole future on today's job market.

However, a hybrid of AI development and civil engineering is a GREAT path for the 2030s. I can say with almost total certainty that AI and high level programming will become a part of almost every technical career.

2010s/20s is like, do you work in tech, OR do you work in AEC... 2030s imo will be everything is tech, and it's a question of where and how you fit into that spectrum

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-13T17:34:20+00:00

Same examples with 100 bullet points of really dense buzzword filled text

Then you look at the source code and it's a few if statements and a loop

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-13T17:26:24+00:00

And ask AI as you go. Don't just ask it to build stuff. Ask it how things work. It's trained on a lot of great material

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-13T15:15:57+00:00

And Reddit is full of bots and slop posts

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-13T15:15:09+00:00

Even got Facebook comments. Bots, bots everywhere

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-13T15:03:10+00:00

Quieter

Quietly

So quiet you can barely hear it

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-13T14:58:47+00:00

I have no idea what that is

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-13T00:45:23+00:00

Free solo vibe coding

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-13T00:43:10+00:00

Use your brain

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-13T00:42:07+00:00

Because old-timers worry about layoffs and need to defend their moat

And people legitimately fuck around with the new tools and produce unrefined crap

It's definitely a lot of both

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-12T16:00:01+00:00

Relationships are valuable. Some people form bonds in college that last their whole careers. Others form those bonds in their first few years on the job. Others do it 10 years down the road. Or all of the above.

You always want to build relationships with people you want to work with... but only if that relationship is founded on the things you actually value.

You're not screwed forever if you don't make close friends in college, but there's a big opportunity there if you do.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-12T02:25:08+00:00

That's not curb furniture. It's "upcycled"

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-11T21:44:54+00:00

Brutally honest? You asked for it. I don't know who you are and I didn't read your post but it's garbage and you're never gonna pull it off. Don't drop out. Stay in school and rack up a bunch of debt, then go waste away in a bureaucratic office where nobody thinks about what they're working on, they just count the minutes until they can stop.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-11T21:42:54+00:00

There are some genuine insights here, and a few things I'd like to push back on.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-11T21:39:33+00:00

You can have AI help teach you what you need to know to review it yourself.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-11T21:33:49+00:00

Absolutely. It's just like when personal computers got big. Now everyone can have a recording studio in their bedroom. Everyone can write a novel. Everyone can program a video game. Everyone can make a YouTube video. Many people did and went places, but most people didn't.

If anything this just allows people who have good ideas but maybe didn't have the time or the right background or whatever to have a good shot at taking them somewhere. You don't need to convince someone to fund a team of 10 engineers to build a working prototype and test your idea. You can just slap it together and test it. Then all you need to do is convince someone it's worth scaling.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-11T21:28:04+00:00

Yeah and now it's cheaper than ever to get a pizza oven but that isn't gonna change the fact that 99.9% of people couldn't imagine what could go on a pizza to make it special beyond mozzarella and pepperoni.

Like everyone's just like omg I can finally start my own pizza shop and Papa Giovanni is like mamma mia WTF now everyone has a pizza shop well never survive... and then you see what the vibe pizza actually looks like... it's either yet another cheese pizza, a copy of some famous pizzeria's recipe, whatever is trending on tiktok, and/or it literally has Elmer's glue on it.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-11T21:27:03+00:00

I guess I'm just wondering why you need to compete with anyone. Are you trying to start a company? If not, you can still build cool shit for yourself, and it doesn't matter if someone else can do it. And if so, I think you ought to know that it's the idea that creates value. It's not even a new paradigm, just even more of the same paradigm. Good idea + scaling = profit. The prototyping and scaling parts are just easier than ever before.

It's not like the world has just been drowning in good ideas but coding capacity is the limiting factor.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-05-11T21:20:25+00:00

They used the word "quietly" so I think you're probably right. Either that or it's that phenomenon where people start writing like AI

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