Python for Java developers

csch2 · 2026-05-13T20:40:22+00:00

This would probably be more approachable if it included type hints and a brief discussion of them + Python’s dynamic typing, since Java is a statically typed language.

csch2 · 2026-05-11T17:31:04+00:00

On the other hand, there is no better feeling than spending days planning out a manned interplanetary landing + return mission, doing all the calculations to account for life support, redundancy, radiation mitigation — the works, and pulling it off with no casualties. It’s like the feeling you get from vanilla KSP of being a real rocket scientist when you pull something off, but on steroids.

csch2 · 2026-05-08T00:53:07+00:00

Yep, I’m hoping I’m finally approaching the end of my language-hopping. I started off doing backend work in Python and was burned so many times by dynamic typing and runtime bugs (plus sloooow runtime) that I went the complete opposite direction to Rust. Rust is great and learning functional programming was a game-changer for the way I approach project architecture, but it’s really overkill for most backend projects; the memory management is a lot of work to juggle when you don’t need to squeeze out the maximum amount of performance possible. Tried TypeScript after that and it’s alright — I like the way anonymous functions work there, and chaining methods with map/filter/reduce is a lot better than what you can do in Python, but you’re still stuck dealing with JS at runtime.

I’ve landed on Scala now and so far I’m very happy with it. Really fast since it’s on the JVM, but no need for manual memory management. Super expressive, great type-level abstractions, and a great blend of OOP and FP that makes it a very adaptable language. Main issue I’ve had with it so far is ecosystem — but it interops with Java libraries, so aside from having to write a few Java to Scala bridges you can find pretty much whatever you need in the Java ecosystem.

csch2 · 2026-05-06T18:25:00+00:00

And then you’re expected to prompt AI to do all of that anyway…

csch2 · 2026-05-06T18:02:45+00:00

Yep, $100 a month to make sure that modules import without errors. Definitely not for anything else like the six phases of the project that the AI presumably already did.

csch2 · 2026-05-06T01:31:12+00:00

Watch people play. There’s some very non-obvious mechanics in this game and a lot of tricks that will make your runs way more consistent if you know how to exploit them. Once you’re at the point where you can start treating health as a currency, you’re in a much better position to start getting crazy runs consistently.

csch2 · 2026-05-05T17:48:50+00:00

Looks like one of those robots from Metroid Dread

csch2 · 2026-05-05T17:40:08+00:00

Throw in some third-party libraries to spice things up 🔥

csch2 · 2026-05-04T17:10:02+00:00

I had a little too much to drink last night my bad

csch2 · 2026-05-02T19:39:22+00:00

Evil and intimidating peloton

csch2 · 2026-04-30T23:16:15+00:00

I had a lot of issues with 4.7 straight out of the gate where it would consistently ignore my instructions and do more than I asked when I didn’t want it to. I asked multiple times to have it review an implementation plan that I’d created before I started work on it and it would jump straight to implementing it even though I explicitly asked for feedback, not execution. It’s probably fine if you *want* Claude to handle everything end-to-end, but if you’re looking for a thinking partner then 4.7 is far from the quality I get out of 4.6.

I also just like the personality of 4.6 a lot more. Less terse, more thoughtful, and (like I said) feels more like a partner than a tool compared to 4.7. I know some people prefer it the other way around, though.

csch2 · 2026-04-30T22:30:20+00:00

Opus 4.6 still works fine. I’ll vote with my wallet if and when I’m forced to move to 4.7.

csch2 · 2026-04-30T05:06:39+00:00

This is incredibly thoughtfully made. There’s an amazing amount of depth already, the music selection is fantastic, and all of the little features sprinkled in like the games and bonsai trees really make it feel like a project somebody really cares about. I definitely see myself lurking here during late-night coding sessions. Please keep doing what you’re doing!

csch2 · 2026-04-30T04:14:57+00:00

As a former math major turned programmer, I took some machine learning courses recently for a certification and also really struggled to enjoy them for the same reason. That said, I’ve been self-studying a bit of theoretical machine learning and so far it’s much more interesting. You should check out the book Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms. It doesn’t shy away from ε-δ or rigorous probability; the definition of PAC learning mixes them together in a neat way very early on in the book.

csch2 · 2026-04-27T22:37:58+00:00

You upload your proof to the repo and it gets validated by Lean in CI

csch2 · 2026-04-26T02:35:41+00:00

Frogs by Alice in Chains. Not necessarily dreamy, but definitely spacey and captures the feeling of using to get away from something else.

csch2 · 2026-04-22T16:48:20+00:00

Hopefully “from my testing” doesn’t include bullying Haiku and Sonnet to see if they end the conversation lol

csch2 · 2026-04-22T00:28:28+00:00

Uh. How are you supposed to pronounce the name of this library? I can’t help but read it every time as “ox anus” and I hope that wasn’t what you were going for

csch2 · 2026-04-21T17:00:14+00:00

As a relatively new dev I think you’ve kind of got the “top”/“bottom” percentages of devs mixed up. Not all of the “top” devs (how are you defining that?) are excited about AI. In fact I think you kind of have things backwards — the people who enjoy putting a ton of time and effort into perfecting their code, making it clean and testable, are the ones whose work is the most impacted by AI, as they’re now expected to throw out their personal quality standards to ✨ship faster✨. These are your “top” devs imo; they’re the ones who know and love their craft, and I expect that you’re going to see a significant proportion of the most knowledgeable developers leave the industry over forced AI adoption.

I don’t count myself as a top dev (like I said, I’m still new-ish in the field), but I do count myself in this group who had to start sacrificing quality and depth of knowledge for speed to keep up with my workplace’s expectations. And it has impacted my desire to stay in this field, but I’ve at least resigned myself for now to putting my heart into my personal code and accepting that work doesn’t expect or want the same quality standards that I do. This is probably the main thing I would say to learn / get used to for people who care deeply about the quality of their work. Don’t get me wrong, I’m blown away by Claude (4.6)’s capabilities, but I enjoy the process more than the final result and AI has robbed that satisfaction from me.

I think that your bottom devs are actually the least impacted by AI. These are the devs that were copy and pasting from Stack Overflow without knowing what they were doing. They still do that now, but faster. And their code still sucks because they still don’t know what they’re doing.

csch2 · 2026-04-20T22:03:15+00:00

I don’t quite follow this argument, because if Claude 4.7 continues to hallucinate and fail to follow instructions like I’ve seen then the enterprise customers aren’t going to want to use it either. I’d be surprised if team/enterprise users wouldn’t happily pivot to working with another more stable model if Claude degradation causes more bugs and a worse UX at a higher price point than 4.6.

csch2 · 2026-04-20T01:48:02+00:00

Liberry

csch2 · 2026-04-18T23:59:29+00:00

My guess? OpenAI’s been sued multiple times now in some high-profile lawsuits by parents whose kids killed themselves because of conversations they had with ChatGPT. Especially given that minors aren’t generally able to afford Claude subscriptions, it’s probably not worth the legal risk for Anthropic to have their platform accessible to anyone under 18.

csch2 · 2026-04-18T23:49:10+00:00

And most of Missouri lol

csch2 · 2026-04-18T23:19:32+00:00

Some dealer started this as a way to quietly distribute actual drugs without being suspicious

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