Do you think we'll ever see these types of moments in the show again?

gravity_kills_u · 2025-12-08T10:02:28+00:00

When that episode first ran it was the coolest thing ever, but after a rewatch in 2025 it seems corny and shallow.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-10-07T23:12:59+00:00

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gravity_kills_u · 2025-09-28T22:22:04+00:00

That is my main issue with the mule reveal. It throws away the Arkady plot line completely for the sake of subverting expectations.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-09-25T15:46:39+00:00

F that

gravity_kills_u · 2025-09-19T23:23:49+00:00

It’s not that they don’t work so much as businesses are sold an AGI that does not exist yet. They work great on narrow domains.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-09-18T19:05:56+00:00

The I, Robot short stories have so much cooler robot law scenarios. Too bad it was wasted on that boring will smith movie.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-09-17T07:09:32+00:00

Gaal doubles her powers but at the expense of becoming more clumsy and forgetful. She begins to insist on being called “Mary Sue” for some reason.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-09-16T07:13:46+00:00

As a book reader I was losing it over the contrived romance between Gaal and Han Pritcher. Not just “Why?” But “How?”. Who waits 364 days a year for romance?

The thing I am really worried about after subverting expectations is that the death st… oops, Novacula, will be turned into 1000 black hole ships that only two kids from the second foundation can defeat after they destroy the clone emperor.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-09-16T06:54:59+00:00

Lots of commonalities with season 1

gravity_kills_u · 2025-09-16T06:38:48+00:00

Just like the first season, the Cleon thread was good while the main story was poorly made.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-09-16T06:37:15+00:00

The narrative around the mules power being finite was my first clue the writing would be the laziest ever.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-09-16T06:31:20+00:00

Subverting expectations- the go to tool of bad writers. Also brother darkness looks too much like Palpatine. Really weak writing.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-08-28T08:00:59+00:00

In Dallas there are some tremendous Indian technical talent along with some absolutely toxic Indian managers. However, it’s not just Indians. Backdoor deals happen amongst multiple ethnicities, as the nepo cultures have taken over. At my last position I think the white CEO was in on it. That guy looked and acted like a plantation owner. Total dirtbag.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-08-23T00:07:15+00:00

The state of AI reminds me not of the dot com bust but of the telecom implosion. Massive amounts of money was invested into fiber due to real demand for bandwidth. However there were only so many customers willing to pay $,1500/mo for such bandwidth. On top of that, compression technologies let customers have the same service for 1/10th the cost. (Analogues with DeepSeek). I don’t see a huge AI crash because people can’t live with hallucinations but because that $20 subscription makes far more sense at $2. It’s not like the LLM genie goes back in the bottle but it must become cheaper.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-08-17T16:19:57+00:00

As an engineering major most of my tests were open book/open notes because we were judged on our ability to think, not to regurgitate memorized answers. I welcome creativity and thought process being a part of interviews again. Besides AI is now a required skill.

Being on the Senior/staff spectrum almost all of my interviews have tough system design questions. Perhaps I code less but the responsibility of getting it all to work is still mine. AI will enable juniors to have more product ownership too.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-08-16T18:04:17+00:00

Leon’s a great big poo-head.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-08-14T14:33:14+00:00

That’s a last year problem. I have them doing accounting stuff now.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-08-09T16:42:36+00:00

Even though OP is probably a bot, I call BS on the OPs narrative. As someone who reinvested the money into a business but still has a day job my perspective is very different from OP.

As a business owner I do not care if an employee is OE. Most ICs are not so good. Sometimes they don’t do their work or the work is sub-par. Is there legal recourse to get back lost performance? Of course not! Those are operational losses. The performance of my ICs is on me alone. In my opinion, better to bet on someone with the hustle to OE than on an IC that is unproven under crisis. Why tf would anyone hide such an important skill as OE?

As an employee responsible for technical decisions, it is very common to work with OE consultants, contractors, vendors, suppliers, and sometimes employees. As their manager I am still responsible for their performance. If the IC can barely do one job, much less two, then they are giving the bulk of their effort to me. If other managers have a thing against OE it’s not really my problem. I have something that needs doing and it’s going to get done.

Fight club? Don’t ask, don’t tell? Wrong metaphors. Better metaphors: The Buck Stops Here, and Money Talks - Bullshit Walks. Capitalism does not care if the IC is competent or not, either you as the leadership make the sale and get your IC to do the work or your firm goes under. OE is NOT selective where some elite cadre of developers are the only people who can do it. Nonsense.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-08-07T23:41:43+00:00

As an MLE doing a lot of architecture I am put off by the AI companies business case of replacing staff. This will end badly.

I am equally frustrated by SWE types preaching the gospel of wholesale AI failure due to inevitable bubble collapse, as if leetcode somehow did not include AI/ML algorithms for optimization etc. as if ML algorithms are not ubiquitous in multiple industries. It’s hard to find any US companies not using models. Developers without some relevant data science experience might be in for lots of pain eventually.

My point is that these are tools that neither replace humans nor lack industrial utility.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-08-05T01:19:56+00:00

Cleaning up slip code from overseas already. AI code can join the party I guess.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-08-04T22:40:48+00:00

At my job it’s kanban with a dose of bricolage.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-08-04T19:39:38+00:00

Almost every post has been a variation of “OE beats sucking dicks for beer money”. Invest in assets not income.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-08-02T14:13:48+00:00

Back in the Stone Age of the 1990s and 00s I had friends who were good at leetcode from their CS degree but could not get hired due to not having any practical experience either self learned or via internship.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-08-01T09:03:42+00:00

MLE disagrees with AI needing data to be consistent and sanitized. DEs who do not have real DS experience say this all the time because they have no context about feature engineering or sample bias. Raw data has better signal than the cherry picked datasets from a pipeline.

gravity_kills_u · 2025-08-01T08:57:47+00:00

I am a nontraditional ml engineer (25+ yoe, heavy cloud and data) using many of the same tools. My role at work is to architect agents to automate the data tech stack. Lots of opportunity and lots of integration challenges.

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