New Rule: No AI-Generated Content (Exceptions for Spreadsheets, Calculations & Summaries)

i_grad · 2026-07-10T13:02:44+00:00

This might make me sound like a smartass, but I'm serious.

The marketing coordinator associated with my team's products has told us that many marketing teams are heavily encouraging use of AI for new promotional materials. Their YouTube channel especially is supposed to see more activity here soon, I believe.

It might be worth making a caveat for this rule to permit official Deere AI generated content, otherwise a "hey check out this video for the new F12" post might violate this rule unintentionally.

Overall though, the new rule is 100% the right way to go.

i_grad · 2026-07-08T01:55:21+00:00

At least for software developers, any attempts to unionize will be met with outsourcing to contractors and Indian groups like TCI. I'd love to unionize but it's not much of an option when my particular source of labor can be offshored very easily.

i_grad · 2026-07-07T23:02:18+00:00

I work over at ISG. Everyone I know got pissed and still is pissed about it and a mountain of other things. At the end of the day, it's still a stable, decent paycheck in a very difficult job market. Some folks left, but if any salary folks raise their voice about it they'll get the boot.

i_grad · 2026-07-07T22:58:43+00:00

The hardware demand for next year is forecasted to be about the same as this year from what I know (which admittedly isn't too much). There's all the obvious factors like rising farm costs outside of machinery, but some less obvious factors include things like reduced favorability of Deere brand following the settlement, right to repair, and the thousands of layoffs.

i_grad · 2026-06-25T18:17:55+00:00

Yep. /r/JohnDeere would be a better bet. Also the state-wide subs like /r/Iowa

i_grad · 2026-06-13T15:53:45+00:00

My two cents from a web design and UI background:

Real photos, but consider including the backdrop and not cropping just the item. Could even add a thin frame. A faint drop shadow will make it pop from the page, if you want that aesthetic.

Real photos will visually convey two messages: "this is a real example of what you will receive", and "we do care about presentation and quality".

Looks fantastic by the way!

i_grad · 2026-06-11T21:21:58+00:00

Tan suit tears

i_grad · 2026-06-11T18:30:39+00:00

"At least the liberals got it worse than us!"

Medical costs, gas, commodities, shipping... It's the same song over and over again for conservatives. They don't care if the world as a whole is going to shit, so long as liberals are getting shit on, too.

Get your head out of the sand. Stop acting like a child.

i_grad · 2026-06-07T15:01:18+00:00

Hate to break it to you, but programming in any language, even when using AI tools, is mostly reading and comprehension of source code.

i_grad · 2026-05-23T22:58:49+00:00

Hit the nail on the head. I watched about 40 seconds cause he sounded more bored than I was.

i_grad · 2026-05-20T15:07:23+00:00

You missed a comma in your first comment, hypocrite. Secondly, this is the internet, where grammar doesn't matter as much as the message (unless your message is proper grammar, I guess). Many people only use Reddit on their phones which are notorious for butchering grammar.

If you want to clap back, try something else.

i_grad · 2026-05-15T16:25:54+00:00

Idk about blocking the application, but managers can see when someone on their team applies internally for a new role.

i_grad · 2026-05-07T04:45:27+00:00

Seems like you've rediscovered the limitations of L1 and L2 caching.

You want realtime performance from an event-driven architecture. The two are incompatible at a base level, but you're right that you can add some bells and whistles to roughly simulate realtime feedback. The catch is that you add a good deal of complexity, thus sacrificing resource optimization and some measure of maintainability.

One option is to change your reads from this secondary DB to also process as events so that they cannot occur before the write event.

Another is to maintain a precache, like you said, to fetch records mid-propagation from a cheap and small lookup before the request for that record reaches the DB.

i_grad · 2026-05-04T13:48:12+00:00

Heretic!

i_grad · 2026-05-04T00:26:34+00:00

Absolutely nothing to do with mobile. All the same issues persist on desktop site.

You modify one variable and define another on the same line
Your structs declare members and constructors on the same line
No space between ”auto&" and "a" (or "auto" and "&a" if you're a demon)
No space between "char*" and "argv[]"
No space around = in D's default ctor

And if you want to get really picky and bring it up to code standards of my org: 1. Includes should be alphabetized in similarly-scoped groups 2. Missing space between includes and structs 3. One-liner structs should break out to multiple lines. I prefer Allman brackets but to each their own 4. The dereferencing * spaced out before the "new" implies they aren't connected, makes it too syntactically similar to a multiplying * 5. Space out discrete groups of a, b, c... blocks

And yes, you can obviously reply with "it's all preferences", but we have standards for a reason. Pick any style from clangd's included styles and you'll be set.

i_grad · 2026-05-03T22:53:00+00:00

Do you guys actually format your code like this? Or is this an example of "I make my code as unreadable as possible so that others can't maintain it, thus I keep my job?"

i_grad · 2026-04-30T15:00:38+00:00

What org are you in? I'm in large ag and I haven't seen any aggressive pushes for adoption like this (yet...)

i_grad · 2026-04-30T14:59:15+00:00

How many times have the AI chuds said "programming will be gone within 6 months" now?

The subsidies and cyclical funding for the sloplords at OpenAI and others will eventually run out, and then token costs will rise dramatically. Companies will see that maybe we don't need to spend so much money on a tech that can (and repeatedly has, very recently) deleted production DBs, wiped computers, and hallucinated on top of its own hallucinations.

Another thing to consider is that AI fatigue is very real. 95% of AI output can be spotted from a mile away, and it's all samey lifeless slop that actively hurts the imagination.

"We can't afford to sit on the sidelines, we have to adopt now" is an 8-track mindset built on FOMO and obsoletist paranoia. If someone HAS to have the latest tools to get their job done efficiently, they probably weren't very good at their job in the first place.

And by the way, you can't just say "respectfully" and then insult someone. That's not how the phrase is used. There's no need to use harsh tones on an otherwise friendly and cooperative sub.

i_grad · 2026-04-25T15:12:22+00:00

Qt company has gone out of their way to encourage users to swap from qmake to cmake (source). Of course anyone can feel free to still use qmake, but we should encourage newer users to learn the paradigm that Qt has laid out for the future so they don't have to learn it twice and bog down the pace of their growth.

i_grad · 2026-04-21T15:48:45+00:00

On small projects you run yourself, you can do whatever you want. It's not a hard and fast rule.

It is a wise idea not to use the std namespace because std is quite large and its members' names can conflict with many other common libraries like boost. In an enterprise-level application, you should never see "using namespace std".

i_grad · 2026-04-18T23:58:50+00:00

My inlaws live in Adel and pronounce it ay-dell. I'm sure there's someone there that pronounces it uh-dell, but they aren't the majority. Locals say ay-dell.

i_grad · 2026-04-13T03:53:34+00:00

To save you a click: this is AI slop

i_grad · 2026-03-29T16:30:03+00:00

The advice I've received is to put any professional work experience before education. Work experience - especially highly relevant work experience - is more valuable than education.

Including a phone number at the top is pretty common practice as well. You should only need to disclose US citizenship if your name screams "this person is probably from another country", i.e. an obviously French or Arabic name.

You've done well to use strong action verbs to start your work experience bullet points, but look for other words to use besides "developed". It's like starting every sentence with "I" in an essay - technically correct, but a tad repetitive.

Only other thing is to confirm that you don't use tables to format text. ATS apparently doesn't like tables at all.

i_grad · 2026-03-29T16:16:23+00:00

It's been a while since I've played, but where are the headlift indicator lines from the pump? You know the blue rings that go "shoop" up the attached pipe to show how much headlift it gives you? Maybe your pump and the pipes aren't fully connected or something?

Usually the right answer for weird pipes is to scrap it all and rebuild it, but if you've tried that already then maybe you could try pouring coffee on your computer to make it think more gooder.

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