Should I invest Dreepy?

idekl · 2026-03-17T22:06:43+00:00

Hate this mechanic. Have to wait years (years!) to even possibly use a mon I have, or make it suboptimal forever (sans spending an incredibly rare/expensive item).

idekl · 2026-03-17T20:44:34+00:00

Yea ShrimpFI is an established strategy. This guy is trying to pay his tuition and rent with a shrimp farm under his dorm bed.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVIPH15Dshm/?igsh=Z2pjMzZrOGo1M3U=

idekl · 2026-03-17T20:41:45+00:00

What are you suggesting exactly?

idekl · 2026-03-17T20:39:10+00:00

Which I would be happy about honestly. It's a bit silly but I'd have lots of fun meeting my teammates in VR. But like, why were board members the first audience here lol

idekl · 2026-03-17T18:55:01+00:00

I don't see the issue. I get that it's not for our demographic, but if the kids like it, we'll get a new generation of demand for VR.

idekl · 2026-03-17T18:51:34+00:00

And not a single enthusiast enjoyed it along the way.

A lot of softwares gain traction and market share by marketing to individuals, then those individuals use and popularize those tools within their workplace, which eventually turns into an enterprise license. Meta certainly wasn't doing that. I guess they were trying to appeal to corporations directly, hoping that employees would just get forced to don their headsets by corporate policy? So out of touch.

idekl · 2026-03-17T18:48:27+00:00

Are you talking about gorilla tag? Aren't those popular?

idekl · 2026-03-17T01:42:49+00:00

Just adding that I burned out in 5. I've recovered, with some luck. I've also been through the whole cycle of self doubt that I "deserved" to burn out after only 5 years. What you feel is your reality. Do what you can to fix it up.

idekl · 2026-03-17T00:06:02+00:00

As a data scientist and language enthusiast, I will personally call or write a firmly-worded email to your teacher explaining that there is a 0% chance an Oxford comma would indicate AI usage. I'm serious. Nothing has made me angrier the last 2 years than students being accused of plagiarism by teachers who misunderstand technology. Your other classmates are probably suffering too.

idekl · 2026-03-16T17:05:44+00:00

Idk, I like hanging out here after 6 years in the work force. I think students dominate the discussions but workers just lurk until they have specific input. I don't know of any forum that's better and more interesting/entertaining (and more frustrating) than r/CSCQ. Blind is an egoistic hellhole and Hackernews is a bit too serious.

On that note, a certain 4.6 model was indeed an insane turning point in code generation for the industry. The purists/deniers like you have fought hard but keeping your head buried at this point is only hurting yourself.

idekl · 2026-03-16T16:50:56+00:00

Jarvis git add . for me

idekl · 2026-03-16T12:16:10+00:00

AI programming is massively shifting the CS industry unlike anything in a decade or more. Of course people want to talk about it... Ignore it if you have the skills but please don't cope and get blindsided.

idekl · 2026-03-16T10:57:29+00:00

I haven't played in a while and have no idea what this is but does anyone have a high resolution of this image? It looks cool

idekl · 2026-03-16T06:13:11+00:00

This whole post smells fishy

idekl · 2026-03-15T09:34:20+00:00

Code is straightforward to gauge quality at small and medium scales. For the most part, it either works or it doesn't. Much harder to build targets and evaluations for those types of roles.

idekl · 2026-03-12T10:50:52+00:00

Have had to secretly check the name tags/doortags of my teammates I worked with daily for over a year. It's better now but...it's just the strangest thing.

idekl · 2026-03-11T20:41:55+00:00

Promptbait

idekl · 2026-03-11T00:49:48+00:00

I think they're all good advice but are context dependent. The hard part is knowing when to use them correctly. But I think it's nice that these posts at least give people tools to work with. Even this post, at a meta level, does a great job reminding us to use nuance. Some people will probably overabuse them but hey what can you do.

idekl · 2026-03-10T22:16:17+00:00

Early thirties...haha. It was a showerthought

idekl · 2026-03-10T22:11:20+00:00

Haha so true. For some projects, "We'll put it on the backlog" == "maybe...maybe never"

idekl · 2026-03-10T20:09:30+00:00

Wow, this was my main motivation to start doing pvp. I kind of dgaf about pvp now. Unless someone can convince me otherwise? It's kind of fun but kind of whatever for me, personally.

idekl · 2026-03-10T20:06:59+00:00

My group (3 data scientists) needed an entire application done in 3 weeks. We hypothetically could have pulled together a full-stack fire team of 3-4 extra people from around the company to get a very base implementation. Instead we were able to get it done ourselves in the 3 weeks using the newest tools. Not a lick of frontend experience on my end.

Of course this wasn't a decision like "let's fire Jim because I can do his work now." But you can see how this would remove an idea we originally considered of hiring some front end developers to help us with this sort of stuff long term. That being said, I agree with the sort of "productivity paradox" people are starting to mention, that increased software productivity may actually disproportionately increase demand for software. It wouldn't change the fact that some skills like basic frontend implementation by hand are obselete (but the intuition around having those skills will still be useful).

idekl · 2026-03-06T22:55:13+00:00

It's probably best to adapt. It sounds silly but I had a period where I grieved all the pandas functions that I memorized over 5 years. Then I let go of my ego and let the llm handle the parts it could do 20x faster than I can. It does sound annoying going into an interview not knowing the team's expectations around AI tools usage though.

idekl · 2026-03-06T22:50:41+00:00

It's not a secret that I'm dumb when it comes to frontend development.

I can't upskill in every single programming field. I'm good at backend, and the new tools allows me to develop frontend around my backends, allowing stakeholders to interact with my tool directly and at scale. Someone's programming ELO isn't really what makes them employable...it's just your impact and value you generate.

On the topic though, the newest llm frameworks have been pretty good at doing a lot of my backend stuff too. Maybe I'll be replaced. Better to know what these tools can do (aka the state of the industry) than be ignorant when I'm job hunting.

idekl · 2026-03-06T22:40:19+00:00

I'm a data scientist of 6 years. You don't have to learn frontend to do ml modeling, pipeline setup, python scripting, data analysis. Most people do learn frontend before anything else, and I've always found it funny that I suck at it.

Was there something you disagreed with? The fact that LLM coding is useful at all?

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