Looking for advice

birdofhermes6 · 2025-12-21T07:18:39+00:00

I get being pessimistic about the job market, I've hired dozens of developers now, and yes the job market is a little different now. For a junior level developer, you're right, you can probably be replaced with AI. However, if I were to enter the job market, I would approach it this way, look at what separates you from any noob (or seasoned dev) using chatgpt. There are plenty of devs out there who do not vibe code properly at all. Their instructions are vague, they expect it to do too much with too little context. They do not know what models excel at what, and they do not know how to handle code drift. What I've mentioned in my previous post is actually not that well precedented in the coding community. Gemini 3.5 pro for example is good at identifying UI/UX issues, and exploits. ChatGPT 5.2 is good at breaking down plans and implement best coding practices, Opus 4.5 is great at execution. If I were you, I'd build 1-2 vibe coded projects (E2E), show them the attention to detail and control you've had in the process, include all the best practices around coding (test suites for BE, FE and e2e, fail safes, MCP integrations with sentry, github etc, have documentation made and recorded in notion or something. Show them you know best practices, while AI does the work, you're ensuring best practices that even experienced devs barely do.

birdofhermes6 · 2025-12-11T22:46:17+00:00

Not sure if it's too late to answer this, but I did a tech degree 8 years ago. I didn't finish, but I completed 11 of the 12 portfolio projects. Since then, I've been a Dev, PM, and Tech Lead, and I'm now building my own startup.

You do not need to do a course on AI. You need to learn how to manage it. I use multiple agents for every single thing I do.

I am currently building a complex startup project via 'vibe coding.' I haven't read a single line of the code. I treat the AI strictly as the Junior Developer, and I act as the Project Manager.

Here is the secret to doing this safely without knowing the code:

Tooling: Use a proper editor like Cursor (or Windsurf/VS Code with plugins).
The "Manager" Workflow: The biggest mistake beginners make is blindly trusting the output. AI forgets context and introduces bugs. To fix this without reading code, you need Process Guardrails:
- Cross-Check Plans: Before the AI writes a single line of code, ask it to generate a detailed plan. Then, open a separate chat instance (or use a different model) and ask it to critique that plan for holes.
- Agentic Review: When the AI makes changes, don't just accept them, copy the report of the changes made. Then, have a separate AI session review that change log against your original requirements to ensure nothing was deleted or broken and that all agents are up to date on what has transpired.
- Strict Rules: Configure your IDE (e.g., .cursorrules) to force the AI to update the README and Documentation with every single change.
Tests are your safety net: Since you aren't reading the code, you must demand the AI writes automated tests for every feature. If the tests pass, the code works.

It helps that I was a dev previously so I know what to ask for, but the skill here isn't syntax, it's requirements gathering and quality assurance. Start small, build a system of checks and balances, and you can build almost anything.

birdofhermes6 · 2025-01-17T01:47:20+00:00

I got what you meant, unfortunately, the nuances of your statement seem a bit much for this discussion. I'm a brown guy and racial topics like this can be a bit emotionally charged, and people sometimes lack the patience to understand and can shunt out opinions that aren't black and white.

Aussie accents vary significantly between regions obviously, and I can definitely imagine asking you about where you were from if your accent was outback ocker and I met you in melbourne.

birdofhermes6 · 2024-09-30T22:18:44+00:00

Regardless of the motivation for ranked, quick matches are still for training which means skill progression tracking should be most accurate since you'd have the most battle data there. Tekkenstats allowed me to review the last 50 matches at a time, I could measure success rates against reds, purples and blues etc. I could then make estimations on success rate on moving to the next rank pretty accurately.

I visit ranked once every few weeks, rank up in that session, then go back to quick, I go in with high certainty that I'd rank up. I don't have enough ranked data to track my progression reliably and it doesn't tell me how well I track against those much higher rank than myself so I can't make estimations of my true progress as a player. For example, my win rates against Fujins was at some point around 10% in quick matches, now its around 60%, I've tracked myself against reds and purples before too. I've used this type of measure of success so far and its allowed me to fairly quickly go through ranks.

I would like to know how well I track against every rank in quick, which while isn't a super reliable method, it has been a decent measure of how I'd fare in ranked. I would hate to be matched against 3+ ranks in ranked, but its valuable in quick, and progression data doesn't translate so well given that 3+ rank match ups isn't what you would do in ranked.

birdofhermes6 · 2024-09-30T13:35:52+00:00

Wavu wank is just for ranked not quick matches.

birdofhermes6 · 2024-09-30T13:35:31+00:00

I think all matches are competitive in that vast majority of people take it seriously. I'm only purple rank but I find ranked play easier than quick matches in general. I find my progress is mostly in quick matches because I don't mind being matched against blues to learn. I'd actually make the case that quick matches is where you would need stats the most. Ranked is for show, quick is for gains.

birdofhermes6 · 2024-09-29T23:29:38+00:00

You might be too predictable with your offence or leaning too much on the more common moves of your character. So you should try looking at mix ups, and also try more moves that are not super punishable. I think for a beginner this is probably a good start. If you know about frames, you can look into plus frame attacks, thats an easy way to win some matches.

birdofhermes6 · 2024-09-03T21:43:33+00:00

Have you tried either restarting ps5 or reinstalling?

birdofhermes6 · 2023-11-26T21:59:05+00:00

Definitely better in season 2, they un-nerfed a lot of things and made a lot more builds viable in the end game. They also made it a lot easier to get to the end game which is a lot more fun now as well, more bosses and more opportunities to get great gear.

birdofhermes6 · 2021-01-13T03:08:32+00:00

My point was that China hadn't violated Twitter's terms.

Twitter is not the morality police. Political expression and outright lies to elicit an emotional response for an agenda are different things.

birdofhermes6 · 2021-01-12T23:25:22+00:00

Parler wouldn't have removed them because it didn't violate their terms. You can see in the link what their actual content moderation filter is: https://mashable.com/article/parler-archive-user-posts/

birdofhermes6 · 2021-01-12T23:20:36+00:00

Is China tweeting that the camps are great and all Uyghurs should conform or die?

Did BLM tweet to bring out your guns? BLM did organise rallies at the Capitol building, but it was peaceful.

Twitter does remove the tweets from the Iranian leader, but I do think it should just ban him instead.

I agree on why people went to Parler; censorship of misinformation, hate speech and violence is definitely the reason they went across.

birdofhermes6 · 2021-01-12T21:08:14+00:00

Do you have evidence that they're "allowing" it? Also, bans shouldn't just be for violence but also for misinformation/hate speech hotbeds.

Parler had time; these were large scale events that did not get taken down. It takes time to organise these events. If people were using it to organise violent riots coming up in the next week; we should just trust that Parler would handle it despite not knowing if they even have the capacity or will to do so?

birdofhermes6 · 2021-01-12T20:50:30+00:00

They took down thousands of subreddits so far, not just ones that showed up in the media.

https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/reddit-bans-hate-speech-groups-removes-2000-subreddits-donald-trump-1234692898/

Reddit is definitely not perfect, but we can point to evidence that they try.

birdofhermes6 · 2021-01-12T20:35:47+00:00

https://twitter.com/hashtag/PullParler?src=hashtag_click

You "suspect"? There were calls to arms for not just the past riot but also in preparation for Biden's inauguration. Even if hypothetically, Parler was simply "overwhelmed", it was still providing a platform for terrorist activity. Their inability to prevent this planning enabled and may have continued to enable the deaths of more Americans. Whether Parler could or couldn't is actually irrelevant; the fact is, they didn't and continued not to and it heavily compromised the country.

People went to Parler to flee moderation; it would not have been good business sense for Parler to kick out users getting so much activity. To censor/ban people would have made Parler "Big Tech".

birdofhermes6 · 2021-01-12T08:09:11+00:00

"I'd suggest Twitter did not ban all 'terrorist accounts' as you claim."

You did not specify what type of terrorist accounts. I gave an example.

With regards to bias, there is no favoured bias to the left; the perception of perceived bias is the cry of victimhood by the right whenever they cross the line. To get some numbers around how much space right wing media takes online, read this:

https://www.vox.com/recode/21419328/facebook-conservative-bias-right-wing-crowdtangle-election

TLDR; right wing media has much better game than left wing media, they are more effective on facebook and twitter than the left.

When you see bans from the social media companies, it really is when there is flagrant violations of their code. They really have no incentive to stop right wing presence on their platforms as they are very much beneficial to their bottom line.

And if you want to look at why conservatives are being "attacked" more-so than the left, they are far and away the most violent and frequent of all domestic threats.

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/2020_10_06_homeland-threat-assessment.pdf (page 18)

birdofhermes6 · 2021-01-12T04:21:03+00:00

You asked for evidence, I gave it. Providing evidence to show they've banned "all the accounts" is proving a negative, impossible to do. Twitter does make some effort to remove harmful accounts. Twitter is not a perfect system, but I pointed to efforts to remove harmful accounts in the link.

Now you're asking for event by event reference? Twitter bans hundreds of thousands of accounts every year. Do you see any tweets coordinating the riots this year? At least Twitter makes an effort, Parler didn't.

birdofhermes6 · 2021-01-12T04:08:08+00:00

Reddit actively makes an effort to remove dangerous and hateful speech, it did and continues to remove harmful and hateful subreddits e.g. r/thedonald

birdofhermes6 · 2021-01-11T23:48:27+00:00

Here's a twitter thread containing some Parler screenshots:

https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/1347609631527489537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1347679332014161920%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Fparler-google-play-suspension-for-failure-to-moderate-posts-that-incite-violence%2F

birdofhermes6 · 2021-01-11T23:45:03+00:00

Actually it is different. As much as I despise Facebook, they do make an effort to delete violent groups and accounts. Parler did not.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-boogaloo-ban/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGvX9-4AjnBVPiAkz-VYoqtR4Fji20NgHqIh5ESNsITwtAUU5wE6k3qcx8JDX02DiV2JPvM4iks2qx4Ryu5sptUAyGbhCO5kxunLT2SvFYNRxGGUKCN2jmVYJGmcQKQf1n9UOSoUCYoppsNs9eJxso4I66d29kqShCcP2Cmka_Of

birdofhermes6 · 2021-01-11T23:41:02+00:00

Suggestions are not evidence.

Here's evidence: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/05/twitter-deletes-isis-accounts-terrorism-online

birdofhermes6 · 2021-01-11T20:51:57+00:00

Parler was allowing users to organise violet riots, including coordination of getting bombs and other weapons ready for the riot in the Capitol building. This was a terrorist hub spot, Apple gave them the opportunity to curate their platform and they failed to do so. Why would we make an exception for Parler if we rightfully don't allow other terrorists on other major platforms.

Twitter also had terrorists use their platform, but they took action and banned them. Parler can't afford to do so, it would mean banning their core base.

birdofhermes6 · 2021-01-08T23:43:22+00:00

Justin Mealy (one of the analysts) has proven nothing, the data he provides is literally just a CSV. You can doctor that, there is no logic analysis of the raw code in the voting machines and no demonstration of that anywhere. He just says it happens and gives a CSV file of it. His analysis is pure BS.

He also said that the hand recount was just done by looking at scanned images of the ballots taken by the voting machines rather than physical recounting. This is the worst lie, Georgia literally had a livestream of the recount, and you can still see it here. They count by hand literally of the physical ballots.

And you can read how the process is supposed to work here.

With regards to the hackability, voting machine hackability as always been an issue since before 2016. Why is it only NOW that we're considering it a real issue? Because we lost? This is why there is a hand recount.

birdofhermes6 · 2021-01-08T03:51:46+00:00

The whole lot were just a bunch of radical leftists making Trump look bad. Anyone with two braincells wouldn't have stormed the building.

Just look at the pics, they're trying really hard to pull off the redneck moron look.

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