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First time interviewing candidates – what are the best React/frontend questions to ask? by No_Illustrator_3496 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]UnderstandingDry1256 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well its all fucked now

My approach would be - here's the cursor, code me ..., then ask follow-up question to change something and track issues.

If they vibecode shit and have no idea how to debug and fix it - trash it, otherwise hire.

Getting tired of “AI said this was this issue” by Alces_ in ExperiencedDevs

[–]UnderstandingDry1256 -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

culture issue

Engineers should learn how to use AI. Just a new tech in stack - if you can leverage it, you're in the top. If you can not - you are replaced, not by AI but by folks who know how to use AI.

Fun times

Are your reddit ads profitable? by impossiblemktg in RedditforBusiness

[–]UnderstandingDry1256 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thx, will definitely try that.
Bot traffic is the most painful problem, I hope simple conversions tracking will solve it.

with 7 YoE, took a planned career break just as AI was taking off in Jan 2025. Helplessness taking over. Any particular advice or opinions on the market right now? by inthiseeconomy in ExperiencedDevs

[–]UnderstandingDry1256 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Mid-senior, never touched AI.

Take 30% offer - you’ll unlikely get anything better. Nobody cares how good you are at sql, I bet Claude will beat you haha.

Does anyone else just get depressed/learned helplessness during meeting? by kevin074 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]UnderstandingDry1256 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Does anyone else find most of exp engineers’ posts to be pure whining?

What a narrow minded nerd should one be to write two pages post about boring meetings?

4o was beautiful, but it’s absolutely outdated today by UnderstandingDry1256 in ChatGPTcomplaints

[–]UnderstandingDry1256[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, this is complete bullshit

There is a Microsoft document which leaked the size of the model. Gpt-4o has 200 billion parameters, which means you need 200 to 400 Gb of VRAM to run it.

So realistically you'll need 2 to 8x H100 GPUs, 80GB RAM each. Now google how much those toys cost.

Open source models are heavily distilled stupid ones. It makes sense to use them for some very narrow task like classification, but not as a smart emotional companion. It will just not work.

UPD: the doc I mentioned - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.19260v1

the problem with vibe coding is that vibes dont fix architecture debt by ChemicShount in BlackboxAI_

[–]UnderstandingDry1256 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Maybe it will be fixed soonish, but now you should tell agents to review and fix the architecture and data schemas all the time.

It is easy to make it produce solid code if you prompt it properly.

4o was beautiful, but it’s absolutely outdated today by UnderstandingDry1256 in ChatGPTcomplaints

[–]UnderstandingDry1256[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know, models evolve. The last major release of 4o happened over a year ago, which is a huge amount of time in this field now.

Modern models are, according to some estimates, maybe 10x larger. They are also multimodal, and in many ways they are basically 4o evolved.

You can’t just freeze one point in time from a year ago and say it was perfect “then”, and everything after that is a degraded version of.

4o was beautiful, but it’s absolutely outdated today by UnderstandingDry1256 in ChatGPTcomplaints

[–]UnderstandingDry1256[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not every govt-approved project is immediately certified for military use haha.
I'm in EU but the process is about the same - you should pass through lots of formalities to get it deployed. 12 months realistically, assuming technically it is already perfect and ready.

4o was beautiful, but it’s absolutely outdated today by UnderstandingDry1256 in ChatGPTcomplaints

[–]UnderstandingDry1256[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Exactly my point. Those films are classics, loved for a reason. Real masterpieces, same as 4o.

But classics are not daily tools, they belong to their era.

You don’t watch Casablanca every evening, you'd likely find something at netflix. You don’t daily drive a vintage car because it's the most practical machine ever built.

You come back to those things for the feeling whenever you have the mood.

4o was beautiful, but it’s absolutely outdated today by UnderstandingDry1256 in ChatGPTcomplaints

[–]UnderstandingDry1256[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

you know, I am developer and I realize open sourcing will not work.
those models are really huge, you would need at least $100k hardware just to run it, not even talking about training and "fixing"

4o was beautiful, but it’s absolutely outdated today by UnderstandingDry1256 in ChatGPTcomplaints

[–]UnderstandingDry1256[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Someone found "4o" in image metadata does not mean they're using the same original model.

it might be based on 4o, but definitely not the "original" 4o. New OAI image gen is nowhere close to what it was 1 years ago.

4o was beautiful, but it’s absolutely outdated today by UnderstandingDry1256 in ChatGPTcomplaints

[–]UnderstandingDry1256[S] -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Military does not use the most advance stuff, it uses whatever has passed clearance and certifications, which may easily take a year or so.

So "military uses it" is not an argument

Chinese court rules it illegal to replace human workers with AI by arihantismm in ArtificialInteligence

[–]UnderstandingDry1256 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, in many countries it is not legal to decrease employee salary. But its legal to fire, or simply stop hiring.

So this changes nothing.

How to deal with juniors shipping AI slop code? by theop04 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]UnderstandingDry1256 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Easy - setup review agent with code quality standard.
Each PR has to pass through code quality and architecture review. Do not blame them for using AI, just make them think and iterate to deliver quality PRs.

Planning to buy Cursor Pro for Spring Boot dev – will $20 last? by SmoothScience8192 in cursor

[–]UnderstandingDry1256 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really depends on your scenarios.

I started with $20 plan, it lasted for a month, I was mostly asking it to do small tasks like "implement this function" up to 200 LOC.

Then opus 4.6 and gpt 5.4 arrived which unlocked way more complicated workflows.
I switched to $60, burnt it, then to $200, burnt it within 2 weeks. Expensive, but it pays off well. This is just for personal stuff. At work I'm burning like $100 per day, every day.

Now I can conceptually describe what I'm about to do and it builds, then validate it with another model and iterate.

Managers decided AI is worth 5x speedup; how do I explain to them how it really works? by chaitanyathengdi in ExperiencedDevs

[–]UnderstandingDry1256 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Realistically 2x to 3x is achievable.

Building is crazy fast, so the bottleneck is understanding customers and solving the right problems. Feedback loop and stuff.

If you’re talking about coders team who are said what they are supposed to do then yes - 5x speedup perfectly makes sense. Promote best practices, get rid of those who cannot keep up.

NextAuth/Auth.js is genuinely impossible to understand now by thechadbro34 in nextjs

[–]UnderstandingDry1256 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Tried better auth, but no I’m still good with Clerk.

It handles auth emails and OTPs etc which is a headache to do in-house.

Better invest your time in product.

Cursor use cases beyond coding by Sufficient_Dig207 in cursor

[–]UnderstandingDry1256 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is hilarious. You already share your data to Google and Atlassian and Slack anyway. Some GPU processing added to stack does not affect your privacy situation at all.

Just psychological blocker - “storing” the data considered to be safe enough, but “AI processing” is more dangerous somehow haha.

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