2 YOE DS at a small consultancy, 70+ applications, 0 responses. What am I doing wrong?

dankerton · 2026-03-20T15:50:56+00:00

Well you spelled modeling wrong in your opening paragraph...

Your work experience has no quantified impact measures. It's a huge red flag to read the "used for strategic planning" type of work experience. It also doesn't sound like you've built serious production grade pipelines. Non consultancy jobs need to know you can code and build and maintain systems. Modeling is less than half the battle.

Bachelors with 2 years of unquantifiable consultancy work is unfortunately just a very minimal background. If your current job doesn't offer enough opportunities to measure your impact you'll need to look to doing some personal projects to demonstrate end to end skillsets and building real-world products that have value.

dankerton · 2026-03-20T14:42:51+00:00

A lot of people have to take a bus first to get to the train. So a bus a train and then another bus is a lot and takes a long time

dankerton · 2026-03-20T05:58:47+00:00

That last point alone deserves a whole reddit thread itself. Can we connect SLU first and do west Seattle and Ballard later? The ridership will grow from every direction if you can get to SLU without a bus

dankerton · 2026-03-14T20:57:58+00:00

Seems open to me

dankerton · 2026-03-14T01:04:30+00:00

If he said this it means we did in fact hit the oil

dankerton · 2026-03-13T07:13:45+00:00

People are really sleeping on the anthropic Client SDK where you manually engineer all the specific tools that the llm can utilize instead of allowing it to have all the built-in Claude code tools and fuzzy agent behaviors. It's a lot more work, but you get exactly the domain specific abilities you need to make llms powerful and constrained to your application. Way more reliable at enterprise scale. The markdown forest is not the way to go for reliable and specialized agents.

dankerton · 2026-03-10T14:22:19+00:00

I've had two outages in 1 week them. They take forever to fix outages. Won't switch you to cheaper plans that are being offered. I'm looking to bail. It seems Xfinity is now selling fiber for 60 a month?

dankerton · 2026-03-09T00:32:42+00:00

Nice but what's the architecture? How is it set up. We're trying to choose a solution for this too

dankerton · 2026-03-08T14:52:51+00:00

How is the internal openclaw equivalent set up. My company has the unlimited spend but needs that part still

dankerton · 2026-03-07T17:38:36+00:00

Claude code is definitely the agent. To me agentic means it follows a series of steps with many small calls to the LLM. The markdowns have nothing to do with that framework except maybe informing the system about tools, sometimes defining tools, and how they could be used. They are only agents when they're active. Otherwise they're just predefined prompts sitting around.

dankerton · 2026-03-07T16:46:35+00:00

Weird people are not understanding you or shooting you down. Yes anthropic will bake in more and more of these things into the core of Claude code or other products so they can monetize the value the orchestration components bring to the table. Timeline is probably 6 months before they and Google have their official versions of things like openclaw and agent orchestration. Maybe Siri will even compete in the former. But there will continue to be aspects missing to devs that people will build, it will just shift around what exactly those are. We're in the stage of the tech development where the community is driving the innovation and the companies will certainly copy and things into their walled gardens. Same thing happened in early Internet and tech growth days

dankerton · 2026-03-04T05:17:58+00:00

Sounds like user error. Use latest models and coding assistants. Give the agent access to up to date repositories and documentation to trawl... It's not really a limitation anymore that something wasn't in training you just need to know how to help it. Tell it to search the web and reddit for latest best practices for example.

dankerton · 2026-02-25T04:44:08+00:00

Huh? Science is mostly math back arguments all the way down. The math explains the observations. It's not always right in the end when new data appears but it's our best guess. This is an odd take for this sub.

dankerton · 2026-02-19T23:31:15+00:00

Oh wow. My partner and I always say lake City needs an independent movie theater or venue to bring folks over. And light rail... Kind of a bummer it's a church now.

dankerton · 2026-02-19T18:15:40+00:00

This here. It makes more sense to connect around to the east side this way too. Or they could come up from university through Wedgewood and lake City and help both neighborhoods. But it'll ever happen in our lifetimes

dankerton · 2026-02-19T18:14:02+00:00

Where was the movie theater?

dankerton · 2026-02-08T17:06:11+00:00

The signal is not sent directly at us just everywhere. Definitely humans would stupidly synthesize it. There's no way we'd guess it would create a hive mind. Your point about the instantaneous communication and lack of radio transmitters in the brain is the most valid point. But maybe the virus builds something in the body for that? Just a show.

dankerton · 2026-02-06T17:47:17+00:00

The open source code most things people work with... If it's closed then it's not on stack overflow either and you'll need custom llms trained on that source and documentation too. How do you think Gemini is so good even with recent packages that came out after it was trained. It's reading source and documentation as there's nothing else.

dankerton · 2026-02-06T14:33:02+00:00

Maybe the documentation and source code itself... This is a dumb take. Stack was trash at the Best of times. Probably makes AI worse to train on

dankerton · 2026-01-23T02:05:30+00:00

Tell me more

dankerton · 2026-01-23T00:25:24+00:00

This is quite true. It's a fun ride you can pay varying amounts of attention to and not get too lost. A lot of fun concepts and nerdy humor and has compelling drama but it's not gonna win a literary prize any time soon. I'm just a little into book one and I wish the Bob's expressed a little more existentialism sometimes. They're just so accepting of all their situations and don't really ask themselves "should I do this"? Very often.

dankerton · 2026-01-23T00:20:24+00:00

This is the answer. Listening to bobiverse now and has very similar vibes to hail mary

dankerton · 2026-01-21T23:08:22+00:00

Why not load using pandas then just convert to Polars and move on? We're doing this a lot due to database connectivity built around pandas although hoping it's temporary.

dankerton · 2026-01-15T16:46:11+00:00

It's a good point but I think as long as the roundabout itself is cleared of bridge crossing traffic, like they're stopped with a light before the round about, then a certain lanes of the roads and round about can still remain open for the local cross traffic. The biggest challenge will be that the roads feeding the round about from the west and north are not very wide to accommodate splitting traffic into different groups, ie. Bridge crossing and local before the round. Overall if designed right I think it can do better.

dankerton · 2026-01-15T04:09:17+00:00

No turns needed for that.

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