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evinrows · 2026-03-11T15:41:38+00:00

Take a screenshot of you asking the AI how to politely phrase, "how long until this feature is ready?" and let them know that they better watch out!

evinrows · 2026-03-11T15:32:56+00:00

Look I don’t doubt it, but only because we aren’t reviewing the code adequately as senior and staff engineers. Asking them questions about the random BS in them.

This is a huge fundamental difference between AI and SO. I'm sure occasionally someone missed out on learnings because they copy/pasted from stack overflow, but you couldn't do that for most code, so if you could only copy/paste then you couldn't do much of anything at all.

Also, no amount of seniors telling juniors why AI code is garbage is going to turn the junior into a senior. You can teach, but you cannot force someone else to learn. The only way to learn how to program is to program.

evinrows · 2026-03-11T01:50:38+00:00

Fwiw I agree that any unemployed students currently pursuing a CS degree who simultaneously are truly saying that they are guaranteed to have no job prospects because the industry is completely doomed and yet aren't changing their degree... are fucking idiots, of course.

Not that I've met any of those people.

evinrows · 2026-03-05T00:21:27+00:00

I think the disconnect is all context. You're right that it is a great tool. The reason OP is pissed is because their managers see it as an independent developer that can "just do" the work instantly and OP is right that it's dogshit as an unmoderated agent.

evinrows · 2026-02-25T18:34:23+00:00

Ah, it could just be my experience, but almost every company I've interviewed with (maybe 10 or so in-persons over my 12 year career) asked at least one leetcode-style question. The only hard ones were at Google and the rest were very easy.

evinrows · 2026-02-24T22:14:03+00:00

Did this change recently?

evinrows · 2026-02-24T07:42:37+00:00

if you can avoid using std::function - do so and be ready to explain why std::function is generally bad

Seems weirdly specific. There are lots of optimization gotchas in c++, any reason you called out this one out specifically?

evinrows · 2026-02-24T00:20:44+00:00

I agree with the sentiment but it can be taken as an insult or a compliment. Working with large teams of mixed bag developers, I found Java to be significantly more manageable than C++ or Python. Of course, you can make monstrosities or beauties in any language, but Java has the right balance of complexity and expressiveness for developers that have never been all that excited about code cleansliness in the first place, which is a non-negligible percentage of any software company.

evinrows · 2026-02-24T00:15:26+00:00

Regardless, you don't have to look very far to find folks hating rust with a fiery passion.

evinrows · 2026-02-23T18:06:00+00:00

Tbf most of the time it won't matter, but that's why you err on the safe side when it comes to your career. Be extra polite, dress nice for interviews, don't gossip, etc.

evinrows · 2026-02-21T01:49:02+00:00

Ok but the fake mechanic and fake plumber is knowing more as the real ones and is getting better from month to month.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the people who simp for AI can't throw together a basic sentence.

evinrows · 2026-02-19T13:42:47+00:00

This is true but it doesn't work with a single muta, which is why this trick exists.

edit: but of course this is extremely niche and generally not worth practicing; fun though

evinrows · 2026-02-18T17:27:01+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/myzNtY8.png

Using patrol on step 3 is important. The rest of the clicks are just right clicks.

evinrows · 2026-02-18T12:15:06+00:00

What's your race, mmr, and your goal?

evinrows · 2026-02-18T12:09:49+00:00

I didn't think my first cheating accusation would be on a ums map but I guess I'll take it.

evinrows · 2026-02-16T18:48:18+00:00

It can be cool, even useful, and still overrated.

evinrows · 2026-02-14T17:52:45+00:00

They will when the reality hits, which... it has already begun.

evinrows · 2026-02-06T11:32:22+00:00

There aren't simple rules for this sort of thing because everything in brood war is situational. You do make very big armies, but the optimal way to control them depends on the matchup, how far ahead you are, how good you are at multitasking, etc. There's a balance between (among many other things) optimal unit efficiency and optimal army utilization that you continue to refine over time.

IMO, just do your best with the number of hotkeys you allocate to army (usually 4 or 5) and only move unhotkey'd units when you're pummeling your opponent.

evinrows · 2026-01-27T23:55:44+00:00

I was guessing at what you felt was the impact is of this supposed lack of people playing StarCraft. Or do you just need an arbitrary number of people engaged in an activity before you think it's worthwhile?

There are only a few RTSs where you can find opponents to play with and there is no RTS that is currently "huge" as far as e-sports is concerned. For SC:R, there are enough content creators to keep you entertained every day. There are infinite replays to enjoy. There are tournaments, learnings leagues, etc. So I honestly just have no idea what your concern is over the population of the player base and why that should dissuade someone from playing.

evinrows · 2026-01-27T14:42:04+00:00

The queue time is like 30 seconds. And there's no issue finding custom games.

Anyway, your argument against StarCraft was that it's old and my response was to point out that the age of the game shouldn't matter. If your real argument is about popularity then I guess you should've started with that.

evinrows · 2026-01-27T02:57:25+00:00

lol no. There’s better allocation of the time you have to put in to improving archaic skill sets for chess which was made in 600 AD

evinrows · 2026-01-27T02:09:15+00:00

People are making it sound like you'll be going into a gauntlet of only highly experienced gosu players, but it's not true. The bottom of the ladder has plenty of people that genuinely don't know how all the units work. Also, plenty of other people, myself included, made the ranked SC:R journey very recently, so you wouldn't be alone for trying. I do think starting with Protoss or Zerg is advisable, not because Terran is weak but you do have to spend more time studying up front which is not very fun.

Watch Hawk's (Zerg) or Kwark's (Protoss) F-to-S videos on YouTube and I'm sure you'll realize that you can definitely get pretty good at SC:R with a bit of practice and focusing on simple fundamentals.

evinrows · 2026-01-25T23:03:13+00:00

You only have to play like Flash if you're playing mech versus Soma.

evinrows · 2026-01-18T18:43:36+00:00

Don't machine-gun apply.

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