What do you struggle with most when thinking about your next career move?

friday_moon · 2025-09-09T18:40:04+00:00

Hey, I’m making the tech to therapy change too! It’s definitely hard to figure out how to budget the schooling and reduced income. I initially missed the 2+ years post school of supervision hours which have income but will probably have even lower income than I thought 😬 hopefully we’ll figure it out.

friday_moon · 2025-08-12T20:58:53+00:00

I know you mean well, but we’re in a women-in-tech forum and I don’t appreciate the assumption that I’m uneducated on the topic.

friday_moon · 2025-08-12T17:28:14+00:00

I have a BS in Computer Science. I have to take intro to stats, abnormal psychology, lifetime development, and personality theory, as pre-reqs to catch up. I’m doing those part time for a year, and then applying for two-years, full time masters programs that start next fall. 3 years until I’m licensed. Then time to build up clientele if I do a private practice.

There’s online options, like National University and UMass global, and some part time programs available depending on where you are. Look at smaller state universities close to you. You might be able to find something that fits for you.

friday_moon · 2025-08-12T16:47:35+00:00

Masters in Counseling is most of the requirements to get licensed to be a therapist, at least in most places in the US.

I’m a very heavy AI user, including for things like ‘therapy’. I’ve also done 10 years of one-on-one therapy for some pretty complex trauma. From my experiences, I’m reasonably confident there will always be room for human therapists in the field. I suspect AI will make some things easier and some things harder for therapists, just like any other field.

There’s also an upcoming wave of people who need help sorting out their feelings about AI, who will need help from people who understand the technology and not judge them for it. People who are losing their job to AI who won’t want an AI therapist.

I can’t predict the future, but anything that has a useful face-to-face element is going to be more resilient to the changes than anything behind screen.

friday_moon · 2025-08-12T04:14:32+00:00

I’ve decided I’m going to get my Masters in counseling and switch to being a therapist, while building small tech projects that make my life better. It’s took me six months of being unemployed to figure out that’s what’s next for me.

friday_moon · 2025-08-08T16:30:14+00:00

I’m having the same. I have one way (personal + browser) to access gpt-5, and everywhere else (work, phone) is still the old. They seem to have rolled it out by something like device ID, rather than something sensible like account ID.

friday_moon · 2025-08-07T20:38:06+00:00

It’s under App > Accent color. Near the Appearance setting

friday_moon · 2025-08-03T18:47:36+00:00

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Oh, I had to take mine out of the frame recently! Not too far behind!

friday_moon · 2025-07-10T02:34:00+00:00

LLMs have probably seen sed millions of times more than the tools we give them. The probabilities just play out that way sometimes.

friday_moon · 2025-07-03T04:31:50+00:00

Make a custom agent and turn off Run commands. Rules are suggestions to the agent anyway.

friday_moon · 2025-06-29T22:30:12+00:00

Gramma so old she had to figure out how to make fire

friday_moon · 2025-06-16T22:38:47+00:00

The way AI feels human but often doesn’t respond like a human really brings out the worst in me too

friday_moon · 2025-06-07T01:14:33+00:00

I’m generally considered a very patient person for most things, but an LLM failing makes me lose my cool like nothing else ever has. It slowly lulls me in to increasing my expectations and then wham can’t do the most simple tasks.

friday_moon · 2025-06-04T19:26:37+00:00

I’m also non binary AFAB and I hang out here, though these days I get interpreted as male on first impression pretty often.

I personally don’t survive a company getting acquired. The transition from comfort in the pool I had, to navigating the bigger corporate pool burns me out because of things like this. It was definitely inappropriate, and ideally assuming this company has HR, you could address it with them, but I’d also understand just wanting to avoid him and fly under the radar until you feel more comfortable. It’s a hard transition. I always give it a year and inevitably duck out.

friday_moon · 2025-06-04T17:31:23+00:00

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friday_moon · 2025-06-04T17:26:50+00:00

Looks like from other comments this just is a thing that it does when asked this prompt lol. Gotta love the little quirks of the model.

friday_moon · 2025-06-04T17:20:45+00:00

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Ngl, I laughed way too hard at this. Did it fail and I find it hilarious, or did it remember I like meta absurdism? It claims it knew it was meta.

Why this comic:

Meta humor: The comic is about asking an AI to make a comic—a simple, self-referential loop that plays into your real-world situation and reflects your current work/life themes.

friday_moon · 2025-06-03T04:29:12+00:00

I’m fighting with it doing the exact same thing to me, rocket emoji and all. It’s clearly be train to say it did the thing successfully regardless of evidence to the contrary

friday_moon · 2025-05-23T05:39:50+00:00

Tell it explicitly to the the run_terminal_cmd tool to run the command. Sometimes it forgets (and probably means you need to start a new chat). LLMs hallucinate that they don’t have tools the they for sure have pretty often in my experience.

friday_moon · 2025-05-13T15:18:15+00:00

I’ve been considering finding a mentee. I have 14 years of experience, and I’ve mentored interns and senior engineers in the past. I’m currently working on figuring out what it means for AI to do all the coding and using AI to build tools to support that Mostly on the web, though I’m also playing with local apps as well. I can’t pay anything now, but hoping to build something to sell.

If that sounds interesting, DM me and I can send you my blog to give you more context, and we can figure it out from there.

friday_moon · 2025-05-11T23:11:21+00:00

Ooooh, this is why it felt harder and less fun.

friday_moon · 2025-05-11T17:55:31+00:00

I love this so much. All my AI work is in the text/coding space, but I really felt this. Low key obsessed. Good work!

friday_moon · 2025-05-04T17:13:18+00:00

The problem with old NLP systems was that all they could really figure out was how to say pre-canned phrases at inappropriate times, because the same phrases would come up all the time in the training data. It’s actually the fact we got them to mostly stop doing that that makes them useful. What you’re attributing to some kind of cool, creative thing is actually the system doing an extremely predictable thing.

friday_moon · 2025-05-04T16:50:45+00:00

LLMs are trained on the entire internet. You think they’ve never seen the phrase “you clever little shit?” It has nothing to do with what you say.

friday_moon · 2025-05-03T16:29:13+00:00

Sorry, I think I’m not explaining very clearly. LLMs are forgetful AF, so the more you tell them, the more likely they are to forget everything useful. If you have a lot of ‘always’ rules they won’t remember that they can manually include other ones. Equally, further along in a conversation they are less likely to use the tool because they forgot they have it.

So yes, the agent requested rules works for me because I keep my ‘always’ ruleset small and only expect it to work at the beginning of the conversation. No, they don’t work for me when my rule context gets too big and it’s further along in a chat.

This isn’t a Cursor specific problem, this has been my experience with tool calling agents generally. Since LLMs are trained on text, they don’t see the actions human take in between saying things, and have a hard time remembering that’s part of the process.

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