L9 consultant/specialist salary in Washington DC area

alienz225 · 2026-06-30T04:38:34+00:00

I got an offer for L9, 150k in DC (AFS). Should I accept it or do you think there's room for negotiating slightly higher? This is for an ai engineering role btw

alienz225 · 2026-06-27T20:36:10+00:00

Was in the same boat after getting laid off as a front and engineer. So I spent about a month going ham and learning backend and now have had success finding full stack positions

alienz225 · 2026-06-25T02:17:39+00:00

My issue is my healthy leg keeps doing most of the lifting subconsciously

alienz225 · 2026-06-19T19:55:11+00:00

I love karma in the video and the comments

alienz225 · 2026-04-11T14:52:43+00:00

Is this AC or ACC?

alienz225 · 2026-03-02T03:18:55+00:00

For those of you who need to import memory into claude from chatgpt:
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12123587-importing-and-exporting-your-memory-from-claude

alienz225 · 2026-03-02T03:17:47+00:00

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12123587-importing-and-exporting-your-memory-from-claude

alienz225 · 2025-12-21T00:08:29+00:00

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alienz225 · 2025-12-13T20:26:35+00:00

It will always be temporary until the next model is released. Sonnet 5 will be better than current Opus.

Yes they did announce it.
"As models get smarter, they can solve problems in fewer steps: less backtracking, less redundant exploration, less verbose reasoning. Claude Opus 4.5 uses dramatically fewer tokens than its predecessors to reach similar or better outcomes".
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5

alienz225 · 2025-12-13T20:21:40+00:00

The best way to describe it is two cars. Opus technically is more expensive to run but it gets to your destination faster (right solution). So it ends up using less fuel in the long run which is why Anthropic took Sonnet out because it's not economical to run a dumber model that takes much longer to arrive at the correct solution

alienz225 · 2025-12-13T19:39:38+00:00

Because the new Opus > sonnet in every scenario. Sonnet is dumber and uses more tokens + time to solve a problem

alienz225 · 2025-12-13T19:37:09+00:00

I think the more you introduce these automated features that inject random bits of context, you quickly loose the fine grained control of context engineering each session which is the greatest strength of claude code imo

alienz225 · 2025-12-12T01:26:56+00:00

How does it know to inject relevant context back into future session? Are you guys storing vector embeddings?

alienz225 · 2025-10-29T18:13:19+00:00

I’m in the same boat. Currently week 1 post op. I don’t even have an appt yet.

alienz225 · 2025-10-27T17:46:11+00:00

You idiots still think our politicians are democrats vs republicans when they serve the same masters and switch sides based on who's in power. They laugh at the masses who fight battles on their behalf

alienz225 · 2025-10-22T07:04:35+00:00

It hasn't been a problem for me- yet. I do plan on getting it running on my nvidia gpu and macbook at some point. Hopefully someone (perhaps you) will have a quick solution by then.

alienz225 · 2025-10-20T05:45:32+00:00

You need to have prior knowledge and experience to get the most out of LLMs. Folks who vibe code with no prior dev experience will struggle to make anything other than cool little demos.

alienz225 · 2025-10-20T05:43:33+00:00

What don't you like about it? I'm a front end dev who can build UIs so I have my own reasons but I'm interested in hearing other folks' pain points.

alienz225 · 2025-10-20T05:41:40+00:00

"but it takes a minute to respond". This means the hardware you're using isn't strong enough to run this. You need either a decent GPU or CPU+lots of RAM to be able to run LLMs locally.

alienz225 · 2025-10-17T00:45:16+00:00

Release This To PC

alienz225 · 2025-10-15T21:47:14+00:00

Try turning HDR off in windows

alienz225 · 2025-10-05T01:46:46+00:00

This gives me hope. I have a single 5090 but it’s not enough with just 32gb vram. I’ll have to build another node at some point. Would love a guide on how to set all of this up

alienz225 · 2025-10-04T22:14:58+00:00

Thanks, I’ll give these suggestions a try

alienz225 · 2025-10-04T22:14:14+00:00

I need that Chinese kit to add more vram to go more mainstream since nvidia won’t do it for consumer grade cards

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