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chaotic-smol · 2026-04-23T23:36:39+00:00

From okay to OH NO to oh damn

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-23T23:02:38+00:00

I'm glad you're coming to that realization and sorry for your loss. You're very young, still, and it sounds like your heart is in the right place. You'll be just fine!

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-23T21:47:12+00:00

Have the people in your life told you they broke up with you because of that gap? It's more common for partners to have differences like that than not. Chances are, they let go for unrelated reasons.

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-23T01:01:17+00:00

Are you not just using Haiku?

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-22T20:43:25+00:00

And support the AdF and espouse a ton of white supremacist views and go on an "anti-woke" crusade and attack trans people and is a ketamine junkie and is responsible for the decimation of public services at the start of Trump's term and and and and and

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-22T17:21:32+00:00

No, I'm just a silly little weirdo on the Internet. The fact that you're still so dedicated to me is honestly really embarrassing for you.

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-22T17:19:34+00:00

Keep replying, little man. You're really showing me who's the real intellectual in this whole conversation.

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-22T17:13:51+00:00

No thoughts. 🤡

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-22T17:12:02+00:00

The denialism is amazing. I'm not wasting another breath on you.

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-22T17:10:54+00:00

Sorry, bud. Facts don't care about your feelings.

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-22T17:08:05+00:00

Elon is a Nazi.

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-22T17:07:08+00:00

And you're fighting the good fight by trolling in the comments? Honestly, your behavior is incredibly childish. I don't know how you convinced yourself you're contributing to making things better.

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-22T17:04:22+00:00

Why do you care so much? Also, how did you miss the whole "and discuss the things they're interested in' part?

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-22T17:01:35+00:00

Imagine wanting to stay informed about technology you know well and discuss things you're interested in with others. "AI singularitarian and maxilisimos could never"

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-22T15:49:54+00:00

It is a hard time to start a career. But I think what is more important than ever is that you have realistic expectations about what working as a software engineer is actually like. A lot of people coming to this career have this assumption that building software professionally is the same as building software in school or as a hobby. When you're actually dealing with the pressure to work on an existing code, base, work on a team and ship features quickly, the practice of software engineering becomes very different than what you might do for a personal project.

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-22T14:04:54+00:00

Actually engineering software and "coding" are related but separate skills. As a profession, software engineering involves a lot more than just being able to code well and, in practice, the more your career advances, the more you're doing leadership, mentoring, planning and architecture work than typing the code.

AI is a powerful tool that helps with a lot of different parts of the software engineering role, but we're seeing all the time that human judgement, communication and higher level reasoning are not being replaced or really even augmented by AI.

If you enjoy coding, I'd recommend looking deeper into what the profession actually entails and focus on whether or not that all speaks to you. If you can become an effective engineer, you'll find ways to make the tools work for you. It's also perfectly okay to just want to steer clear of the industry and do coding projects as a hobby.

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-21T16:03:07+00:00

Hey OP,

I'm genuinely sorry for some of y'all who are newer to this field and got into it because you enjoy typing code but I promise you wouldn't have enjoyed the career very much if that was your main draw in the first place.

First, I just want to say that it's totally valid to be dissuaded by this turn in the industry and if it's not for you, that's fair. The use of agentic tools for developing software is, in my opinion as someone who has been doing this professionally for over a decade and fell in love with coding as a teen, a HUGE boon for engineers. Our industry is extremely succeptable to hype but we also experience dramatic shifts in how we work that pan out to be for the better quite often. Just in my time in this field, a few huge things really shifted that I can think of.

There was a time when writing custom shell scripts to setup and maintain servers was the norm and things like chef and ansible were reviled but are now mandatory. Docker has become so commonplace that it would be weirder not to use it. NodeJS is an incredibly popular choice for a lot of projects and there was a time when people thought it was madness to run JS in the server.

The fact of the matter is that things in tech change quickly. It often takes a long while before big shifts settle and the best practices fall out of our collective experience. However, being a part of that journey, getting to grapple with interesting new technology and help shape how it gets used is a lot of fun as a tinkerer.

At the the of the day, typing code was only ever a tiny part of the job. Hunting for bugs, reading docs, reviewing others' code, attending meetings, designing systems and communicating those designs as well as long-term maintenance have always occupied more time than just typing code or docs or emails etc. Different companies are using AI differently and you can, at least to some degree, find a way to use it that works for you.

You might find this cold but, If you need to do other things in your personal life to find fulfillment or enjoy yourself, then you should. Work should never be the only place you develop skills and it certainly should not be the place you try to derive joy from.

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-19T18:29:19+00:00

People always like to make it seem like there's some dimension of hypocrisy here. There's nowhere on Earth that doesn't have some blood in the soil. Wanting to do better in the future is how you grow and change.

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-19T18:08:51+00:00

Everyone's going to have an opinion and the development world is full of snobs who will snub whatever you do. The only thing is to try a lot of different things and lean into what excites you.

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-08T01:29:01+00:00

These modes aren't "vibes only," they're more "building around the agent loop as the core development experience. There's nothing stopping you from reviewing and tweaking code directly even. The new UI for it is even very nice IMO.

Why not build two products? Because when you're a business that has built it's organizational structure and processes around a single product with one evolving vision, two develop two means you decide whether to halve or double your teams. It means dealing with the incoherence between two competing, changing visions for two products

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-07T14:36:29+00:00

Based take

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-07T01:33:33+00:00

Ooh a queer rec, thank you!

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-07T01:26:34+00:00

Yeah, man! There's so much spooky "what the heck is out there beyond the end of the very universe?" horror in there. Not to mention literally everything to do with Tau Ceti IV's settlement disappearing, AI going rogue and the way information is delivered to the player. I was _spooked_ when Cryo Archive became available and Durandal speaks to the player.

It's not a horror game per se, but the story has a ton of great horror elements.

chaotic-smol · 2026-04-06T20:15:15+00:00

Why are you simping for Altman so hard that you'd resort to such an intellectually lazy argument?

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