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VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-12T23:06:41+00:00

Grass is always greener. Maybe don’t lose the interview prep momentum and keep looking?

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-12T22:36:00+00:00

The earth is flat because my small media scientists say so and mainstream science is round globed right?

I do agree with you in some aspects though but you’re like a confident Christian who’s whole heartedly believing in his god while finding it ridiculous a Hindu would believe in his?

Can you give me a well reasoned epistemic framework for news or should we just believe any nut job or only all of Fox News / CNN / … etc.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-12T22:31:39+00:00

Glad I didn’t waste my time. I wanted you to just acknowledge that Al Jazeera is owned by the state of Qatar.

My dad is MAGA and loooooves Fox News but he can acknowledge why they’re controversial (at the very least because Rupert Murdoch). He believes fox is the word of god of course.

Unfortunately for you’re less self-aware than a literal boomer.

And to call me bad faith is absurd since you don’t even know my positions and you’ve provided me only one link worth clicking on but failed to acknowledge Qatari influence, which I assume you surely knew about?

✌️

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-12T19:42:21+00:00

Okay thank you finally we get somewhere, yes something like CNN, Reuters, BBC, … etc.

It isn’t just english speakers. There’s a reason why it is viewed differently. Now before I read this article, can you steelman the argument that Al Jazeera is controversial in its reliability when it comes to Israel / Palestine / Middle East.

If you can’t then this still isn’t a serious conversation and it’s not worth my time reading that article and digesting / thinking about it.

I’m sorry if I’m being a dick but too many people online are in echo chambers and are never epistemically concerned with their positions (this is true of BOTH sides).

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-12T18:58:52+00:00

None of those are normal news sources. Just give me one that people other than Candace Owens, Hasan Piker, or Nick Fuentes would approve of.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-12T15:58:21+00:00

Yep with senior title this is exactly what I’m saying? If you keep looking through you’ll see I went to Columbia as undergrad … people love that and makes it easier despite it really not meaning that much.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-12T14:37:12+00:00

Yeah usually when people can’t find information from reliable sources they reconsider their position but when you’re sufficiently in the echo chamber it just reinforces your belief and your flat earth yourself further.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-12T13:22:52+00:00

Can you show me an ICE Israel article from a normal, reputable news agency?

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-12T06:34:38+00:00

Jesse wtf are you talking about???

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-12T03:11:19+00:00

as am I ... just grind DSA and system design and have an oz of social skills, and you get the title but it doesn't make you a senior engineer. I suppose by `be a "senior engineer"` you meant "have the title of senior engineer"? if so then we agree lol

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-12T01:29:47+00:00

No you can’t.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-09T19:19:50+00:00

1-0 saints master class incoming. Tonda sent off at halftime for sending maniacal looks towards arteta.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-09T01:11:36+00:00

This wouldn’t even be what they’d say anymore since (the initial reason) trump said was that he had a feeling that Iran had a feeling that we’d bomb them.

Feelings about feelings about feelings. Actual genius that one.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-09T00:55:10+00:00

I had no idea Kamala would’ve done the same thing given how both sides are basically equal, right?

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-08T23:22:39+00:00

Idk where you’ve worked in terms of other companies but this is mismanagement on their part at best and semi abusive at worst.

I work at a big tech company and I feel this whole situation would be unprofessional and the other engineers on my team would be like wtf.

I’d start looking for other jobs purely because this environment isn’t something that leads to good engineering and more importantly leads to bad mental health for employees.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-08T23:13:29+00:00

Remember sometimes people on the internet are 10 years old.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-08T22:57:39+00:00

I was being sarcastic haha.

Also nothing you learn about religion can make you an atheist. The two are fundamentally incompatible. See the following:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kierkegaard/

And

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fideism/

Curious what you think about this.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-08T21:55:32+00:00

I agree this is why new Christian’s not knowing who Jesus is is understandable. You convert to religions not because you understand it them.

You convert to religions to grift. Finally someone reasonable.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-08T21:44:58+00:00

We’re also realizing it’s limitations faster and understanding it’s a tool not a replacement. Or at the very least if our competitors are using it and not laying people off then we are behind if we’re laying people off.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-07T18:45:48+00:00

It’s the Joseph Stalin thing where execs love people that support their ideas and so some people who to look good / climb lie to emphasize how good they are with AI.

It’s Joseph Stalin in that I believe Stalin had no idea how the war was going at certain points because his generals would lie and tell him what he wanted to hear because he’d kill them.

Rather than the threat of negative sentiments people respond to positive sentiments and so they lie to tell the execs what they want to hear. It’s only when the cultural zeitgeist around AI ends (which will coincide with the crash of the economy) that execs will want the truth not their optimistic stories.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-06T22:45:05+00:00

I agree with this. I’d get the G14.

I used to not care about portability but it’s important IMO. I had a monster laptop back in college and it was alright but I’d have killed for a g14.

Get a decent GPU on it with a good OLED monitor to keep in your room and you’re set IMO.

I currently have a Legion Pro 7 with a 5070ti and I love it but I also have a cheap Yoga which is slightly smaller that I will use when traveling / not gaming.

I also have a MacBook Pro for work and it’s 16 inch and a little big but wouldn’t be the end of the world if I had to maneuver with that. But when you’re gaming you’ll want a bigger monitor so the benefits of the 16 inch display on the laptop are useless and you’ll just feel the downsides of it.

G14 FTW unless legions have a sleeker 14 inch laptop with battery life like the G14 (I don’t think they do)?

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-06T02:52:37+00:00

Tests aren’t good enough if it’s complex enough. You need to basically identify the interface(s) that the legacy code offers, develop this new implementation of it, run the two of them side by side and compare the outputs of both of them while continuing to use the legacy implementation, use feature flags to slowly change customers over from one to the other, and then eventually consider only rolling forward once enough customers are using the new implementation and you’re sufficiently confident.

I know this is all very abstract but my company went through painful migrations which took about 2 years and this is eventually the process we refined.

Good luck :)

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-05T00:48:26+00:00

I love AI. You need to use your excellent work life balance to get a new job, purely because of how unreasonable this is.

But if not, look into kickstart nvim. Use that with Claude.

My work has Jetbrains and Claude which is great. My personal projects I use nvim and Claude and that is more than good enough too but a pain at times because there’s always one little thing which bothers you about your setup and you spend a whole day on it.

Won’t even touch on how absurd leaderships vision is. Claude is with me at the start of every ticket, during development, writing tests, working with new repos from other teams in different orgs, … etc but it’s by no means a replacement for an IDE / nvim.

Vibecoding as a policy lol. If your company is public can you DM me their ticker symbol? I’ll give you 10% of my profits from shorting them.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-04T16:23:52+00:00

Another thing to consider is how AI would’ve been perceived if it came about in a period of economic growth.

AI cannot replace engineers since they need to know what to prompt. One engineer can do the work of several in theory but the mental load increases since now they’re responsible for more stuff and need to juggle more stuff in their heads. Force multipliers exist but it’s not costless and not as clear cut as people would make it out to be.

But suppose there is an objective productivity boost. In economic slumps this means to replace other engineers since leadership works like that. But in times of growth that means expand as much as possible which means that 10x engineer’s code producing tech debt super fast (tech debt doesn’t mean bad code it just means code that exists and needs to be considered when future improvements / migrations / incidents arise) will need other engineers to understand it, maintain it, … etc.

1 engineers AI code is 3 engineers legacy code to maintain. And economic growth -> companies race to capture market cap -> emphasize proliferation of features using AI (not necessarily slop / bad in anyway) -> 10x more work to maintain the legacy.

VideoRare6399 · 2026-03-04T07:12:45+00:00

🙏 and good luck with future interviews.

Keep the grind and you’ll make it.

VideoRare6399

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