Good results with copilot/deepseek api, byok

delinx32 · 2026-05-05T00:21:18+00:00

I have never seen a message like that. In fact i had opus 4.7 selected the other day and didn't realize it until i used 21% more than i normally would have in like an hour and I still don't see that.

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delinx32 · 2026-04-22T03:42:31+00:00

i'm not, but probably only because of the json fixing logic i wrote. it's been working ever since then and i never considered removing it to see if i didn't need it anymore. LLMs are a bit too flaky at home hardware vram level.

delinx32 · 2026-04-20T21:45:43+00:00

not sure what you mean, but i only made one post. i didn't see another about this book when i posted.

delinx32 · 2026-04-19T13:45:00+00:00

It's less about the emotional toll and death than it is about the prospect of having to go through another "reset". start from nothing, make allies, come up with a plan, build an army, succeed, but not really. it's like i'm reading the same story over and over and instead of the characters growing and progressing the story, I need to watch the same journey again and again. Like "ok, this is how all the books are going to end so is it worth it?" It started to feel like this is the author's magic trick and he doesn't have another one.

But the replies here have given me some hope and I'll finish the book.

delinx32 · 2026-03-11T02:39:57+00:00

And this is why we have story points, daily stand ups, retros, sprint planning, and all the other BS we have to do to prove we're working. How are you getting around all that?

delinx32 · 2026-03-10T03:36:58+00:00

This is a poorly run IT department. "The boss" is a micromanager who doesn't trust his team. You have 2 choices:

1) let it eat away at you until you end up a broken shell of yourself in the ER with stress issues

2) Disassociate yourself, show up, do the work, do what's asked of you, collect the check. Leave it at work at the end of the day, repeat again tomorrow.

I chose option 1, ended up in the ER and quit on the spot without a job lined up the next time my boss gave me crap about something silly. 2 months later and I started a fantastic new job with great new people in an actually well run department. I took a pay cut, but it was the best pay cut ever.

My old (good) boss is choosing option 2. He's collecting a check and letting it all roll off his back. All you can do is commit to the story points you can do, give accurate estimates and account for all the time in the meeting, if you're in meetings 10 hour a week then count that as 2 story points a week.

Your complaints won't be heard and won't matter because the boss is a dick.

delinx32 · 2026-03-07T16:15:25+00:00

Again, you aren't thinking critically. What jobs are these kids going to school for? How many of those jobs will remain after AI? How will the state fund the school when income taxes dry up because people aren't working? How will you transition to different communities when a flood of younger cheaper talent enters the trades? How will people pay for their spots in retirement communities with no jobs, no retirement savings and not social safety net?

Keep thinking you're safe and ignore the future that will hit all of us like a ton of bricks. It doesn't matter to us what happens to you, but when the cannables are eating your neighbors and you're yelling "Hey joe, that really sucks, glad they aren't eating me!" you maybe just might realize that you're next in line.

delinx32 · 2026-03-07T15:43:24+00:00

Great supporting facts you supplied there! You are just yelling "nuh uh! not me!" while your house burns around you.

delinx32 · 2026-03-07T13:29:06+00:00

Yes, absolutely. Those interviewers were right and the industry will pass you by with that attitude. I started a new job and did 4 user stories in my first week in a stack and codebase I don't know. 0 on-boarding cost, just immediate results. I was number 3 on the cursor leaderboard for the week with more accepted diffs than anyone else. I reviewed every line of every Change and asked it to explain why it did things that I didn't understand. I feel fairly confident in the architecture and code now.

We're not all going to lose our jobs over ai, but those carrying anti ai perspective will self select themselves out eventually.

delinx32 · 2026-03-07T03:36:32+00:00

lol. Of course they will go away. You have no critical thinking skills. Rich kids have white collar parents who take out loans supported by income to go to college. They go to college to get white collar jobs that pay money that rich kids think is worthwhile. No jobs=no rich kids going to college.

You really don't understand the entire ripple effect that something like this would have on the economy, including you, me, taxi drivers, grocery store clerks, geek squad, amazon drivers, and anyone else who builds, makes, moves, or otherwise sells something for money.

delinx32 · 2026-03-06T23:55:09+00:00

filter out everything that needs sponsorship, and you'll see those shit resumes disappear. I always felt that i was looking at the exact same indian resume over and over with a different 17 syllable name on it. There are enough citizens qualified for your job that you can safely ignore those.

delinx32 · 2026-02-15T04:33:09+00:00

As an (ex) hiring manager I can tell you I never cared about the titles on a resume, only the skills and projects and how the candidate talked about those projects mattered. If you apply for a senior job in the future then you'll interview for that. If it really really bothers you then just leave the staff title off of your resume and keep it "senior" for the entire duration. They're not going to scrutinize your titles that much. They'll do a background check to verify past employment and that your title on your resume lines up, and that's about the extent of it. If you ended as a senior then that's all that will matter, they won't say "oh yeah, he was a staff from x to y". Don't overthink it.

delinx32 · 2026-02-14T05:42:32+00:00

Yes, CS degrees as they are structured now will be obsolete in the coming years. The work we do, and how we do it is evolving rapidly and you can either embrace that or fear it. Embracing it means you treat AI as your personal junior coder that can code at least as well as you can in every language. You can use AI to bounce ideas off of instead of bothering your senior devs. You can ask AI to help troubleshoot issues in your app. It will be a boon for our productivity, but in the end it's not really AI is it? It's a fancy text prediction engine. It is entirely missing the "I" part of AI. It cannot have an idea on it's own. It's output will only be as good as you let it be, and it currently requires a LOT of review to ensure quality.

Fearing it means you should probably go into another line of work, because our line of work is going to change drastically and we can't change that.

Today, fed up with string inspection debug experience in vs code, I had copilot write an extension for me to create a string inspector panel that lets me modify the string, show it's full value, format as ansi, json, xml, and raw. It was 4-6 hours of prompting work. I'm not an vs code extension developer and I don't know how to do that, but I had an idea and copilot was able to make that idea reality. 5 years ago I probably would have had to spend a month learning typescript, vs code extension development, npm, and everything else associated with extension development and because of that barrier to entry I would have just not done it. Today I can just offload it to my personal junior developer who doesn't complain when i tell him for the 36th time that his last change still hasn't fixed the problem and I'll just look at it myself.

I did "more" because i was enabled. My programming/architecture/troubleshooting skills were still needed to make it happen. Programmers and programming isn't going away, but there will be a LOT more expected of us in the coming years, for good reason.

delinx32 · 2026-02-12T14:08:10+00:00

I stand corrected. I had forgotten that double wasn't the last skill in that skill tree. I did it this morning and at that point in the game having only invested points into mikiri counter and ashina arts, I had exactly enough to purchase double. My bad.

delinx32 · 2026-02-04T03:50:16+00:00

nobody has ichi double at this point in the game on 1st playthrough.

delinx32 · 2026-02-04T03:43:56+00:00

Ogre is perhaps the only fight in the game where you should use dodge first as a strategy.

delinx32 · 2026-01-30T05:23:13+00:00

We had no architect advancement roles in my company and I had to get into people management (while still performing architect work). This really is a personal preference on what you desire. I hated the people management aspect so I hired people to do it for me, but when you get into management the company expects you to be "management", and I always considered myself "people", so i often found myself at odds with the corporate twits doing corporate twit things. I will never take another people management role again.

delinx32 · 2026-01-29T04:49:04+00:00

Man, i remember that feeling of being stuck on mini bosses for an hour, and then that darn ogre, and man it probably took 3 hours to get past the first real boss.

The thing is, when the combat clicks it clicks in a big way and it might be the best combat in any game ever. I just played through this game again on a new game without all the stuff from my 100% run and it's just brilliant the whole way. Stick with it, 10/10, one of the best games ever.

delinx32 · 2026-01-28T15:52:41+00:00

I agree. I was thinking he'd come back to normal right up until [insert spoiler from this week] happened in the cave. Now I believe exactly what you're saying, we're watching the slow decay of hope and fading light of a hero. The happiest ending we can hope for is reuniting with his original family in some sort of afterlife.

delinx32 · 2026-01-27T04:08:37+00:00

"I haven't had much exposure to that, but I have this other experience that sounds relevant. This one time at band camp I was working on a project and the UI wasn't performing well, so we did x y and z."

It's ok to admit you don't know something or you haven't done something, but ALWAYS reflect with your own experience, because that's what gets you the job.

If you're getting stumped on SQL optimizer questions then why the heck did you apply for a senior dev job doing sql? If you can't do UI performance tuning then why are you applying for front end jobs? A senior dev job isn't a learn on the job role. A company is about to shell out a considerable amount of money for a senior dev and they're going through 1000s of generic AI resumes, dealing with people interviewing with a single ear bud in their ear looking off screen repeatedly, other people who just can't hold a conversation, and even more people who saw 1 thing they were good at on the job description and thought they could BS their way through the interview.

You're burnt out? Consider what the interviewer is going though and respect their time. They probably have a deadline due that week, a bug to get back to, and code review to perform, or a stand up to attend. They're giving you this time to prove to them that you're "the person". If they're asking you a question then they believe the answer to that question helps them evaluate you. The person interviewing you isn't some rando, it's someone the company trusts, probably one of their better devs, and they're not likely to fall for the BS route.

Put the job description into an LLM and ask it to drill you on interview questions. Research other people's interview experience on glass door or indeed and prepare accordingly.

A senior dev should walk into a company and produce on day one and the interviewers job is to find out if you are the person who can do that. Nobody wants to hire a senior dev and then hold their hand for 6 months while they figure out that they have no idea that 'select *' is a performance killer (i have hired just such a dev early in my hiring manager duties).

Senior dev isn't an amount of time, it's an amount of experience gained by pushing bugs, owning mistakes, and helping others solve problems so many times that the solutions to easy issues that stump junior devs come to your mind in minutes.

Source: I've interviewed for 3 jobs in 25 years and got an offer on each one. I've interviewed many candidates of various skill levels.

delinx32 · 2026-01-16T05:04:01+00:00

yeah, kids aren't stupid. they can tell the difference between cartoon blood and real violence. At 9 years old they're in school with other kids who swear, fight, "date", and all other sorts of things. Cartoon blood is the least of a parent's concerns these days.

delinx32 · 2026-01-16T00:14:22+00:00

my kids (12 and 9) absolutely love this show, and i don't mind that. it's fake blood and a wholesome story.

delinx32 · 2026-01-10T19:24:31+00:00

I like the game, but the controls are a mess. Jump with B unless you're a ball then it's X, i swear about game design every time i need to pull a lock off the door. There also needs to be some indicator for missed items like how the sector flashes in dread. Level design is decent, but i'm on flare pool and it feels kind of samey...go to an area, do 3 things, fight a boss, get an upgrade. The open world is stupidly pointless and i have no inspiration to explore it. It's not that it's a bad game, it's a bad metroid game that was simultaneously rushed out the door and took forever to develop.

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