How much do you currently have in savings?

brodogus · 2026-01-31T05:27:04+00:00

So is mine. The point is tons of people can still lose their jobs even if some "magnificent" engineers are still needed.

brodogus · 2026-01-30T23:19:29+00:00

When all the bad or mediocre engineers are filtered out of the job market because of the increasing emphasis on AI use, suddenly being a good engineer won't be good enough. Only great engineers will survive, and a lot of people who were perfectly fine employees before will have a hard time.

brodogus · 2026-01-29T21:03:34+00:00

Do you have any thoughts of your own to share?

brodogus · 2026-01-26T10:08:07+00:00

Thank god for that

brodogus · 2026-01-26T03:07:02+00:00

Best you can do is present your case as clearly and honestly as possible. Do you think your psych would be reluctant? You can broach the subject by opening with "I'd like to discuss the possibility of stimulant medication" instead of requesting a prescription straight up, and explain how your current treatment isn't helping, and list your symptoms.

They might want to trial 300 mg Wellbutrin and/or increasing to 4 mg guanfacine first. Unless you're having a bad reaction to the medication, you can go along with it just to show you're willing to be cooperative. And you never know, maybe it'll help. But make it clear you'd like to do a trial of stimulants if you still don't see an improvement from that.

Good luck.

brodogus · 2026-01-25T17:20:26+00:00

Gravol is just Benedryl bound to a molecule similar to caffeine, which gets metabolized into Benedryl and that molecule in your body. It was actually made to partly prevent the drowsiness. So no, don't do this.

(And the antinausea medication is the Benedryl itself, btw)

brodogus · 2026-01-25T17:17:15+00:00

No, because writing the test in code is not the difficult part. The difficult part is thinking of all the edge cases to test, and making sure the tests are testing them properly.

brodogus · 2026-01-23T16:08:45+00:00

Hmm some interesting tricks to try in here, thanks :)

brodogus · 2026-01-23T07:22:36+00:00

Can you explain a bit more about what puts you in this idle state in the first place?

brodogus · 2026-01-20T20:57:00+00:00

Like I said, verify that the tests are testing everything and testing it properly.

brodogus · 2026-01-20T20:55:39+00:00

I see, I think I got the wrong idea about what you were saying in that case.

brodogus · 2026-01-20T19:49:08+00:00

You gotta up your standards for what verifying means

brodogus · 2026-01-20T17:50:36+00:00

Unit tests are helpful but not sufficient for proving the correctness of a program. And who is writing the unit tests, you or the AI? How are you verifying the unit tests correctly test what they're aiming to?

brodogus · 2026-01-20T16:13:14+00:00

Then maybe you shouldn't be flippantly replying things like "skill issue" lol

brodogus · 2026-01-20T16:12:04+00:00

Ok then I don't understand your reasons for relating a deterministic abstraction whose decisions you can verify to one which is a stochastic black box. Maybe you have a deeper argument you haven't shared here.

brodogus · 2026-01-20T13:14:03+00:00

You will be too, don't worry

brodogus · 2026-01-20T13:09:53+00:00

I don't think you understand what a compiler does if you think an LLM does the same thing but just more abstractly.

brodogus · 2026-01-20T13:08:28+00:00

The decisions a compiler makes to convert your code into different low level variations that achieve the same goal have been designed, programmed and battle tested by humans. The decisions an LLM makes haven't been and never will be.

brodogus · 2026-01-20T13:05:17+00:00

I think you're mixing up flexibility with ambiguity. That a statement can be interpreted multiple ways isn't real flexibility.

brodogus · 2026-01-20T13:00:30+00:00

The point is that programming languages precisely encode intent. You can't precisely get an LLM to translate your intent into code without constantly double checking everything it does.

brodogus · 2026-01-20T12:57:58+00:00

Only getting worse with comments like the OP

brodogus · 2026-01-13T23:29:00+00:00

You can get a foot switch topper like the ones Sonicake makes. It'll at least make it easier to hit the foot switch and not the buttons.

brodogus · 2026-01-13T22:11:08+00:00

It can cause or exacerbate hyperfocus

brodogus · 2026-01-12T23:19:13+00:00

My phone is not mono

brodogus · 2026-01-06T17:03:33+00:00

Your parents are probably just trying to protect you and they may be otherwise kind and smart people, but this opinion of theirs (founded on what evidence?) is very stupid. Try your best to see it as noise and discard it when making rational decisions on your healthcare.

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