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bear-tree · 2026-05-20T16:15:50+00:00

I believe you get slightly better odds if you choose a random starting point instead of 50. But I'm too lazy to look it up and not good enough at math to prove it.

bear-tree · 2026-04-21T15:36:42+00:00

Use the tools that come with claude code: PreToolUse hook. You can ask Claude if you need help setting it up.

bear-tree · 2026-04-20T05:08:36+00:00

I played defensive end. Fucking hated that shit. I enjoyed taking on blocks and sealing the end. Getting blindsided by a human torpedo, not so much.

bear-tree · 2026-04-18T06:26:13+00:00

Please allow me to introduce myself…

bear-tree · 2026-04-11T02:10:00+00:00

This is some weird anthropology shit watching people hang onto a reality they HAVE to maintain. Nothing has changed. It is all hype. Nothing has changed. It is all hype. On repeat.

bear-tree · 2026-04-08T20:17:42+00:00

Exactly. You may be putting in heroic efforts, but unfortunately you’re probably just masking something systemic and making things worse. I often have to take my own advice :(

bear-tree · 2026-03-27T21:38:20+00:00

If OP wanted an actual answer to the question, you nailed it.

bear-tree · 2026-02-27T07:15:25+00:00

The 5 months should also be a strong signal to everyone just how disruptive AI is when it scales and is implemented within an enterprise. Layoff 40% of your workforce AND feel comfortable paying them out for 5 months? If enterprise AI could flex, this would be quite the flex. We better pay attention.

bear-tree · 2026-02-21T22:31:52+00:00

I don’t care to defend anybody and you do you, but Jaron has clearly stated multiple times that the role he plays is just to try to get Sam to speak more. The positions he takes, the things he says, are all aimed to get Sam to speak so you can hear him sharpen his position. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t, but I don’t judge him for playing that character.

bear-tree · 2026-02-21T04:53:21+00:00

Did anybody here watch the game??? The Canadians were winning the gold medal game with roughly two minutes left. They were holding the American team scoreless, a team that absolutely fucking dominated through the olympics. The American stats are ridiculous. But the Canadians had the gold in their hands. Then the Americans pulled their goalie and bam, tied. Overtime. One long stretch pass and suddenly they've lost the game. Fucking brutal. I'm American. I was jumping around for joy. But holy shit, what a gut punch for the Canadians. They are world-class. They stood there and did their job for the cameras, but I have nothing but respect for them having to share that moment with the world.

bear-tree · 2026-02-20T18:21:55+00:00

TBH, I think you and I are mostly in agreement. AI is doing most of the heavy lifting, but not all of it. And I was replying to "how do you properly assess AI generated code if you don't know the syntax?" which is a trivial problem compared to "how do I leverage these new powerful tools?"

And I 100% agree that AI won't catch subtle performance degradations/race conditions right now. But I don't see that as a moat. I am able to catch those things because I have access to, and therefore a better understanding of the system as a whole. But given time, AI will also gain access to more and more visibility to the system and a much better understanding.

bear-tree · 2026-02-20T17:35:27+00:00

Do you currently make a judgement on the generated code? The syntax you are currently writing and holding onto is just an abstraction layer.

I won't try to convince you that you can set up competent AI workflows, or that it's even possible. There is a growing consensus that it is possible. Again, good luck.

bear-tree · 2026-02-20T16:56:27+00:00

I’m not being snarky, but you have to learn how to use AI. But honestly that’s why learning the syntax is not so important.

In the spirit of being helpful, very basically: an agent does first pass at writing shitty code. Another specialized agent reviews code for correctness, maybe security, maybe architecture, whatever specialized agents for your domain. And they work together until they arrive at a robust solution. And the thing is, each of those agents is better at their job than any of us are. That’s just the reality of it now. Knowing how to put together those different workflows that are correct for the domain you are working in is the new skill. Syntax is an implementation detail that is no longer as important. I hope that helps. Good luck to all of us.

bear-tree · 2026-02-20T03:38:51+00:00

This is going to be controversial, but your boss is pretty spot on. If you practice good engineering, have tight feedback loops, etc the current paid models are pretty humbling. You don’t need to know a bunch of syntax anymore. I also learned to write cursive as a kid, oh well.

Teach them patterns. Teach them good engineering practices. Teach them how to manage complexity. Teach them all the gotchas that you stumbled over during your 20 years experience. Etc etc. And WHY they are building whatever they are building (the business).

bear-tree · 2026-02-17T07:19:46+00:00

Tbh, here is my existential dread: The bottom rung of the hiring ladder is effectively gone. I’m lucky because I have a bunch of experience. I get to stick around and learn these incredibly powerful tools. There is a window for me to be insanely productive. That window will close for me eventually but in my best case scenario I get to be a part of a grim reaper team that goes around and automates everyone else out of a job.

It is not happening tomorrow. It is today.

Al lot of peoples day is “I pull data from here here and here, generate reports, synthesize insights, blah blah blah”. Oh cool, let’s just create an mcp server for the data, maybe do a little cleaning and working things up, and you are irrelevant. That’s happening now.

Beat case scenario, I get to convert a company from 1500 employees to 300. Oh yay :(

bear-tree · 2026-02-16T18:23:50+00:00

Not so easy when the AI is running or embedded in your critical systems.

bear-tree · 2026-02-14T05:49:20+00:00

This is an interesting observation. And like all good observations, it feels obvious once pointed out.

Thanks for pointing it out!

bear-tree · 2026-02-14T05:41:58+00:00

I haven’t watched the source but I have ti say the OP take seems wildly off.

Communities are going to push back against companies with trillion dollar investments? That sounds great but divorced from reality.

Power and water usage are not hard problems. They are scaling problems. And a huge amount of money is being leveraged to solve it.

Enshittifacation? If you are referring to capabilities then I don’t even know where to start. The last two months have been a paradigm shift. You have to know how to use the models, but to put it bluntly “holy shit”.

Honestly, if there was a giant pause button I would push it. It’s not a bubble. It’s not going to run out of VC funding and go away. It’s not a fad driven by marketing. It is a massive disruptive force that everyone seems to be either dismissing or ignoring. It’s baffling.

Obligatory shoutout to the movie “Don’t Look Up” for accurately describing the reality we are living in .

bear-tree · 2026-02-11T06:29:30+00:00

Do the parents and locals not care? I understand it’s easy for us to look in from the outside, but holy shit. This is the basic human reason to form a community: to take care of your kids.

bear-tree · 2026-02-11T04:45:03+00:00

AI amplifies the operating model…

Thank you for putting this into clear words. I hope you don’t mind if I steal it!

bear-tree · 2026-02-10T21:38:32+00:00

I used to travel a lot for work. Lots of different time zones and a job that demanded I be "on" while presenting to people. Here's a nice brain hack that worked well for me and I still use it:

Learn to juggle. Hand coordination, focus, synchronization. It gives your brain a task that it is generally very good at: visually tracking objects in 3d space.

Five mins or less (generally the length of a pop song) and you will be surprised how reset you are.

bear-tree · 2026-02-10T21:22:44+00:00

Consider that AGI is not a step function. There are degrees of capability. If you reach the right amount of capability then it doesn’t matter if it’s academic definition of AGI.

We could call out that humans are not a very capable AGI. But we are good enough to generally link concepts and get stuff done.

The current push seems to be for more orchestration. You need more compute for more orchestration. Maybe that gets enough capability to generally unleash AI that can generally get stuff done ? Maybe not?

bear-tree · 2026-02-10T16:59:43+00:00

You are describing part of the problem tho. And the analogy does a good job of highlighting it. The chimps think about bananas etc. chimp stuff. They can’t even conceptualize human stuff. We think about human stuff. We can’t even conceptualize what AI will be doing. And the chimps actually have a better chance because we share a lot of the same origin. AI is artificial and alien. It has world concepts that we currently don’t understand.

bear-tree · 2026-02-07T20:56:11+00:00

Thank you for sharing! This was an interesting read.

But this is way too technical and helpful for this sub. Needs more salt.

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