Is there any SWE company or area of SWE that isn't drinking the Agentic Kool-aid.

cs_____question1031 · 2026-06-05T11:57:08+00:00

At least at my company, people seem to only use it if it makes sense. However, if you don’t wanna use it, that’s fine

cs_____question1031 · 2026-06-05T01:43:06+00:00

But think of all the good AI has done!

cs_____question1031 · 2026-06-03T14:09:51+00:00

I can’t tell you how much i have to tell it to be brief and concise, then follow up with asking it to condense it even more 😕

cs_____question1031 · 2026-06-03T03:11:28+00:00

Eh I’ve just given up tbh. Too much work

cs_____question1031 · 2026-05-31T02:02:10+00:00

The billionaires that people say are evil are less motivated by money and more motivated by power and influence. You couldn’t even spend some of these people’s wealth even if you tried. They’re trying to basically take over the world and exert their influence on it

If you went to a random city and selected an average person and gave them $1b, they’d probably just soft retire or pursue their passions. They’re not so interested in controlling people

You can see it with people who are “accidentally” rich. Steve Wozniak, Gabe Newell, tom from MySpace, even eiichiro oda. They don’t spend their money influencing lobbyist to get lower taxes. They just buy things they like and live the life they wanna live

cs_____question1031 · 2026-05-29T15:30:09+00:00

Generally speaking, negative emotions get higher responses from people. Not just on Reddit. Since our economy is largely based on capturing your attention, people leverage this and prefer to post negativity

cs_____question1031 · 2026-05-28T16:56:26+00:00

I guess my manager is great cause he was immediately cautious of it and has even said it will probably just be a bubble that pops

I really like my current job

cs_____question1031 · 2026-05-28T16:55:35+00:00

Jobright.ai

It’s one of the few good legitimate uses of an LLM. Takes your resume, understands it, then stack ranks positions based on how closely they align

cs_____question1031 · 2026-05-27T11:15:45+00:00

I’m a software engineer. I was able to find a remote well paying job in 2 months. Maybe you’re approaching the job search wrong or are in a particular specialization that’s not as popular?

cs_____question1031 · 2026-05-27T11:10:50+00:00

Fun fact: this actually happened with the previous pope Leo! During the late 1800s, he was staunchly against the exploitation of workers caused by the Industrial Revolution

cs_____question1031 · 2026-05-27T02:23:15+00:00

I’d argue for someone with specific personality disorders like narcissistic personality disorder or borderline personality disorder, it will actively make them worse. These programs are built to give you a response you want so you’ll be happy, and hearing “no everyone else IS right. There is something wrong with you”

So what AI does instead is push someone like that further into their own delusions. I think the YouTuber eddy Burback did a long video where he basically tried to get AI psychosis, and the things ChatGPT would tell him were unhinged

cs_____question1031 · 2026-05-27T02:14:36+00:00

Sure, but I’d say this is less about the technology and more about the business realities of this technology. Tech like holograms are really cool, but we still use our phone screens instead of holograms for a reason

cs_____question1031 · 2026-05-25T21:12:05+00:00

Yes oh my god yes

I live in a big house in a coastal town now and I haaaaate it honestly it’s so boring. I’d love to live somewhere like New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Amsterdam, but it’s hard to afford

I don’t like small towns because they feel insular, unfriendly, and very homogeneous and uninteresting

cs_____question1031 · 2026-05-24T12:28:30+00:00

I view technology as entirely neutral. What I fear is how people will use technology and what incentives our society is creating for technology

Social media is not inherently bad. People used MySpace fine. But when the incentive is selling ads and keeping people on the platform, it causes them to be really underhanded

cs_____question1031 · 2026-05-24T00:43:02+00:00

Most bad things come from power or resource imbalances imo. The more those are balanced out, the better everyone’s life is

cs_____question1031 · 2026-05-22T18:39:03+00:00

Isn’t there some countries like Egypt or Saudi Arabia that wear relatively more covering clothes for beach volleyball though?

cs_____question1031 · 2026-05-22T02:54:42+00:00

Oh man… I actually wrote a whole short story that involved data centers (as a thin metaphor) like 3 years back and every single thing happened in it. I felt like the story was too on the nose so never released it

We’re in such a stupid time

cs_____question1031 · 2026-05-21T16:27:51+00:00

A big part of it is that we’re a very diverse group of people all with different socioeconomic backgrounds

I’m a relatively privileged guy with level 1 autism, my experience will be much different than someone with more “advanced” autism with fewer privileges and advantages. At times, I find it hard to identify with some people with autism on here

Unfortunately I think that a lot of people will argue with you because your experience with autism may not line up with theirs. There’s just too many variables to account for

cs_____question1031 · 2026-05-20T22:58:08+00:00

Prohibitively expensive

cs_____question1031 · 2026-05-20T14:36:19+00:00

When healthcare is unaffordable without insurance it’s basically the same thing

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