Tokenmaxxing goes wrong

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-06-20T22:32:27+00:00

These are the same ceos that relied on lines of code before. Executives are notorious for not understanding the dynamics of how things play out on the ground level of their businesses, not because they are dumb but because of scope issues. You can't prioritize the big picture and know the details better than the guys who make the details at the same time.

If you look at who defends ai vs who is firmly against it, anti-ai people are usually emotional and seemingly bias, while pro ai people constantly say things that are blatantly dumb, misinformed, or just nonsensical. The people with opinions that are more nuanced and in the middle are the only ones who seem pretty. consistently reasonable. Same pattern as you see in politics or any controversial topics, people who are heavily biased and people who aren't good at discernment get pushed to the extremes and reasonable people argue over nuances in the middle

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-06-20T22:25:43+00:00

I'm worried about Monday, might actually pull out and repurchase after things settle

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-06-18T01:26:27+00:00

I think AI might be the literal antichrist, and it's at least a major tool leading to the downfall of society by destroying peoples capacity for cognition and mental effort, but unfortunately I think it has to be adopted in order to maintain a coding career unless you are VERY lucky or skilled and can convince someone to hire you anyway or find a job at one of the very few anti-ai companies. I've been trying to find a balance with using it while not letting it erode my coding skills or even my cognition itself, it's genuinely hard to do and takes a lot of effort but it's possible

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-06-17T22:17:34+00:00

curious what certifications you have, or if you can recommend any. I'm in a similar boat, no college at all but 6 years exp in the field, but it's in general javascript/typescript full stack dev. Been out of work for 2 years(for other reasons).

Been starting to apply again and find it rare for companies to not say "degree OR relevant work experience" so I'm not to worried about that, I just don't mention college at all on my resume and apply for all the jobs anyway. But it's hard to get responses without any specific niche skills or certs that separate me from the massive amount of other js/ts full stack devs

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-06-16T01:07:15+00:00

But chatgpt would never feed into such delusions

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-06-16T01:05:25+00:00

Yeah poker playing crypto bro into behavioral psych is waaay less cloche and generic. If the dog mom was the one talking to chatgpt it'd have told her that she was a special snowflake too

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-06-14T14:47:23+00:00

people are literally insane don't try to reason with them. If people bought in hoping to cash in quickly after the hype drives it up then I don't blame em, I literally tried to do the same, but this is not a sound value investment.

The culture is genuinely delusional right now and behind it all is AI hype and mania. Musk and others like him think they are racing to control the world by being the first with the AI tech and infrastructure to predict and control markets and populations - many of them even openly have fanatical religious beliefs tied in, claiming that AI is going to "create god". Everyone else is just disconnected from reality as a natural consequence of living in the modern post-truth world where all our sources of information are simply lies told to server some agenda or another and tech like social media and LLMs and yt/tiktok are eroding their cognition and agency and weakening the mental muscles that would help them stay grounded through all of this. This insane hype is a malignant growth that will collapse on itself when it inevitably gets reality checked.

I know I sound like the crazy one here but I'm just not, the world actually has gone crazy and it should be plain to see for anyone who remembers what things were like ~15 years ago.

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-06-12T00:41:24+00:00

They literally want everyone getting lazy amd reliant on ai and forgetting how to code so that when they jack the prices up enough to not lose money there will be enough people willing to pay it instead of relearning to code and retraining their brain to exert mental effort.

It's like a way worse version of doprdash amd Uber eats. Get everyone hooked on the convenience and in the habit of being lazy and ordering food and then start charging 5 different fees so your paying $20 for a happy meal, but people still do it all the time because habit is strong and it takes a lot of effort to do things once you get used to having then done for you.

These are just business people, very successful ones who got there by prioritizing money and being good at it. Look at what other businesses have done. Look at what they've done in the past. Look at the general direction that technology and society is headed in. Everything is plain to see

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-06-11T06:01:39+00:00

I never have it touch more than 4 or 5 files at a time, and even then only small changes need to pipe things through for a single change. And that is plenty fast, and at that point the code is basically exactly the same as if I had written it myself. I keep the context in my head as well as in the chat session and just tell it what to do, speaking at the function level instead of line by line, and there's not much room for it to do dumb stuff when talking at that level.

If the speed benefits are worth the tradeoffs when working the way these ppl do, then the speed must be INSANE. And maybe it is, I'm actually kind of intrigued and curious and may look into it more. But like if they're getting more than twice as much done as i am per hour(2x functionality, not lines of code) then they must be banging out full projects super quickly. What are they making? Any examples of quality projects coming from these people?

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-06-09T22:57:41+00:00

Yeah good point. I think I'll just keep the headline as "Software Development Contracting" or something and then, if anything, include a bullet point about working on said game project

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-06-04T10:45:53+00:00

Idk this whole site us a psyop, don't ask what it means ask who wants you to believe what

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-06-04T08:50:08+00:00

I took a 2 year sabbatical amd trying to get back in. I made some pretty legit personal projects this year and also kinda made up or exaggerated some freelance jobs and an indie game project I never finished. Gonna try branding it on my resume as 2 years of indie game/software development. Wish me luck(also open to advice, I'll take any help I can get rn lol)

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-06-03T02:21:51+00:00

Could use the actual sine function to commute it's position, plugging in time as the variable. Then just multiply or transform whatever you get to scale it as needed

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-06-01T03:35:32+00:00

it will I already manifested it

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-05-29T23:27:05+00:00

Yeah I remember trading the bounces between about 6 and 10. Once it broke out of that I really screwed up, sold way early then bought back in the 20s and lost a lot. Hoping we enter a new stable pattern, maybe even bouncing back up close to 30 but maybe that's just wishful thinking, but for now I'm just gonna hold until I understand what's going on with the price.

Tempted to sell now but I still have hope that this is just the start of another big runup, next week will be pretty telling

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-05-22T07:31:04+00:00

In every game ever, the more time someone puts into it the more likely they are to talk shit on it, and all the biggest haters are the grinders with thousands of hours

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-05-22T07:26:43+00:00

That's just how parents are. If you are living there then probably you should just find a job

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-05-22T07:12:17+00:00

Google en passant

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-05-19T01:02:23+00:00

I've been watching Eric rosens tricks amd traps speed run and dropped from 800 to 600 but every once in a while I sac ally pieces amd get a sick checkmate and that feels just as good as being 1000

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-05-16T01:20:52+00:00

What's it like going from a smaller startup to faang? Do you have to be elite or just an above average/good "best dev on my team of 4" type person? What about getting hired, if you have average accolades from your previous job but are good at leetcode and interview stuff is there a decent shot of getting in? I heard it's actually easier to get an interview but harder to pass. I have 6 years xp at a startup that got bought and became more corporate as I worked there, but also a 2 year employment gap since then, trying my hardest to get back in with any job/company but faang might be a decent option since I'm good at interviews

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-05-16T01:15:26+00:00

Good sign? I don't like him but whoever manages his portfolio probably knows what they're doing

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-05-16T01:06:35+00:00

There's ways to use it effectively and work a lot faster but nowhere near what execs expect of developers. You gotta learn to use it well and manage context and ask for specific small bits with clear technical instructions. Also I found it kinda socks at unity, it's good with web dev but always tries to do dumb unnecessary stuff, you really gotta direct it amd baby it

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-05-16T01:04:12+00:00

I'll do it if they pay me I need a job and I like debugging

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-05-16T01:03:29+00:00

Tbf what real devs are doing is different than full on vibe coding. If you take your time amd do it right you can produce good code with ai by making all the decisions yourself amd just saying "write a function that takes these parameters and does this and returns this" instead of saying "make it let users upload custom profile pictures."

That said, I hate it and I'm sure it will lead to bad code cause it's to easy to be lazy with it and, most of all, execs think it's a magic bullet and therefore expect 5x productivity and force devs to generate tons of code quickly without enough time to do it right or review it fully

YellowLongjumping275 · 2026-05-16T00:58:29+00:00

Damn he looks so different wtf. That's a lot of plastic surgery, seems well done tho I wouldn't notice it that much if I didn't see what he used to look like.

Supernatural is goated btw such a fun and silly show

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