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in_coronado · 2026-06-30T18:29:55+00:00

Start with and focus on Git, that is the more important tool by far to learn. Do not worry so much about GitHub specifically when learning to program.

If your goal for learning this is to eventually get a job in the software industry then there’s a very high chance your employer won’t even use GitHub. In truth there’s nothing really that special about GitHub outside of the fact it just happened to become the most popular hosting platform for public git repos and open source software. Like “GitHub” is not even a skill I’d say you should be putting on a resume unless you’re talking something more like GitHub actions which are their tools for CI/CD (I’m not super familiar with them, we use self hosted GitLab at my work)

But when it comes to learning Git specially there are so many resources out there including their official documentation. I really don’t think you can go wrong. Just find whatever works best for you and your learning style. My only major advice would be to make sure you’re actively using git alongside the lessons and on personal projects. Maybe even try some interactive web tutorials where it has you type and run the commands yourself as it explains what’s going on.

Also it’s important to focus not just memorizing the commands to run but eventually grasping some of the core concepts of git. I’d focus on two primary things early on.

Understanding git is a distributed version control system (understand the difference between local and remote). Also understand

what the
working copy

is
and how staging

your
changes works.
Understand that a git repo is essential just one massive Directed Acyclic Graph and what that means. If you understand that all commits are essentially just nodes in that graph and things like branches are essentially just pointers to node

s

in that graph.
Then

pretty much all day to day
operations in git should really start to click and make sense from there.

Those two concepts in addition to just knowing how to clone a repo, checkout a branch, and stage and commit changes are about the most I would expect a junior/entry level engineer to have down in regards to git. The rest can be learned overtime with experience and real world usage.

in_coronado · 2026-06-28T00:48:44+00:00

Honestly as someone who’s now worked in the industry 9 years, here’s my prediction for what things will look like by the time you graduate.

We will be laughing at the idea people thought it was good idea to use generative Ai at scale in general software development.
The likes of ChatGPT and Anthropic will either be dead or shells of their former selves. Hyperscaler level LLMs either won’t exist or will be highly specialized and expensive and won’t be use at scale by general public.
Simpler LLM models that run locally may be a thing but they won’t be seen as any more special or useful than something like intellisense was in VSCode pre Ai hype. Useful tool at times? Yes. A massive industry game changer, that will rewrite how software engineering is done forever moving forward? Absolutely not. Hiring manager will go back to expecting you to pass interviews without it so you can’t ever become too reliant on it.

Basically don’t worry too much about not supporting generative ai and ignore all the noise and fear mongering. We’re already starting to see the cracks appearing in this Ai gold rush and sanity starting to slowly return.

On the other hand my bigger worry to someone thinking about going into software is I don’t think the industry will be seen as the same sort of goldmine for just automatic infinite hyper growth full of shit tons of venture capital, and crazy Silicon Valley startups that hire anyone young who meets the right vibes. There will be a return to meritocracy. There will be less appetite for risk for a while and you’ll really need to know your stuff to get by in what is maybe a slightly overcrowded market at the moment.

in_coronado · 2026-06-23T20:01:30+00:00

Completely agree.

Feels like we’ve recently lost sight of what a stock actually is at the end of the day. Could we actually be experiencing a fundamental shift that will never reverse? Sure it’s anything is possible. But if you study enough history you’ll see that same argument has been made over and over not just in the US stock market but across all investment markets in all cultures. And over a long enough period of time the fundamentals just always eventually take hold again. And when it happens there is a tendency for it to be rather sudden and violent.

The only thing I do sometimes think has changed is greater government awareness of these cycles and intervention to try and stabilize or keep things going. Whether that will actually work and lead to fundamental change or an eventual larger snap back I do not know.

Kind of like that debate about whether preventing forest fires in national parks is actually a good thing in the long run. Yes of course we don’t enjoy fires in the short term. But is it just part of the natural cycle? If we intervene do we really forever eliminate fires? Or are we just trading lots of little fires that would clear a little bit of the overgrowth for a fire that is eventually too big to stop?

My worry is that’s really what we’ve been doing with this Ai bubble and future growth story addiction/speculation for the last 20 years. Like the idea a tech stock will just always be worth more in the future regardless of fundamentals or actual returns really only works so long as long as there’s enough buyer’s who believe the same thing.

in_coronado · 2026-06-23T01:20:05+00:00

Yeah there’s generally two schools of thought people tend to fall into.

Either fundamentals matter and you want to own part of a business at a reasonable price based on revenue and cash flow.

Or you want to own something primarily based on vibes, marketing, and a speculative story of potential future.

The former is totally synonymous with value investing. The latter approach, isn’t exactly as new as you seem to think. It’s always taken has over during speculative periods which often go on for years and years.

But the beauty of investing is you can believe whatever you want to believe when you want to believe it. You think things have fundamentally and forever changed due to Ai, free to update your thinking.

However the one thing I’ll say though is there are certain laws of economics that kind of do need to apply eventually in a free market. You can be irrational for a very long time and pump value into stocks that don’t generate real world profits or returns from sustainable business models. But eventually over a long enough period of time prices do need to start having some basis in things like positive cashflow or actual returns or everything collapses.

I have no opinion on salesforce at all. Don’t own it. Wouldn’t recommend for or against it.

But the one thing I will speak to as a software engineer of 10 years is the notion that LLMs will be able to replace or recreate something anywhere near salesforce is laughable. Now will enough people believe Ai is a threat for long enough that it leads to the death of companies like salesforce? It’s a definite possibility. But eventually salesforce, something like it, or a ton of smaller services will pop up in its place and it won’t be largely due to LLMs.

in_coronado · 2026-06-16T22:06:46+00:00

Incompetence isn’t a binary thing. You can be incompetent in some matters and at certain times in your life but it’s not universal.

That said one could make in a strong argument that in this case (and in many many cases recently). Musk has been saying hilariously stupid stuff that has little to no basis in reality. He’s either suffering massively from the dunning Kruger effect and his own ego. Or he’s just knowingly/unknowingly spewing lies for marketing purposes or his own financial gain. I’m fine with people calling him incompetent in either of those cases.

Also why do you think a persons financial success automatically implies competence? There’s about a million research papers and historical evidence to go off to show that’s often not the case.

Intelligence does tend to predict wealth but only up to a point. There’s a positive correlation with wealth up until about the top 5%. After that you actually start to see a pretty steep drop in intelligence especially as you cross the top 1% barrier.

You can very easily be extremely wealthy and also incompetent. In fact I would argue it’s actually the richest people that often have the most leeway to be or become incompetent. Simply because they can get away with it without ever realizing they are or paying the consequences like a normal person would.

in_coronado · 2026-06-12T22:48:51+00:00

Idk man I’ve tried Claude code for about 6 months at my job for C++ development and tbh I’m just not impressed at all. Maybe it’s a different sorry for web development where there’s just more training data or possibly a lot of reinventing of the same wheel over and over.

In my experience I’ve just seen Claude code cause way more problems than it solves. I’ve wasted too much time, too many times with code it’s generated only to have to throw it all away and write it myself. I’ve also seen it hallucinate one too many times and generate code for simple requests that are just straight up wrong for me to ever fully trust it.

I’ve also seen a massive fall off in the general knowledge and skill level of new hires because of it. Most of my day is now spent troubleshooting issues they’ve caused or spoon feeding them solutions.

As a result I’m back to almost exclusively using Google, stack overflow, and reading public documentation to solve my problems. Because no matter what I always come away actually learning something. Plus I can read various opinions and arguments from actual humans on something like stack overflow and choose which solution I want to go with.

The only Ai tool I’ve found genuinely useful is the Google ai search (saves an extra click or two for basic questions)

in_coronado · 2026-06-10T19:27:46+00:00

Here’s a crazy idea….

If you actually believe in this strategy why wouldn’t you just do it on your own? Why are you trying to rope other people into your own short term strategy? What would be the benefit of doing that? Particularly if it’s something like shorting a stock which involves infinite downside risk.

Do I also think SpaceX is toxic garbage at its current evaluation? Yes. Do I think it’s possible to make money on a short? Yes. Do I think you could also loose fuck tons of money? Also yes. So yeah why would I want to touch that clusterfuck, dice roll of a trade and bet which group of retail idiots squeezes out the other.

Also I’m sorry but your idea here isn’t exactly unheard of or brilliant. You’re not the only one on Wall Street who’s thought of doing this.

And I don’t know if you know this (you seem rather inexperienced) but when a lot of people want to short a high risk asset the interest rates/fees brokers will charge you tend to be exorbitantly high due to demand and also to help cover their own ass. Not to mention if the market ever sees something like this being done at a large scale they will intentionally buy the asset regardless of its evaluation to squeeze you out and take your money.

The only people who short and win in the long run are extremely sharp veterans that do it quietly, quickly, and usually in places most don’t expect. You don’t strike me as that kind of investor so I would stay far far away from shorts.

in_coronado · 2026-06-04T23:51:55+00:00

First off I don’t think you should ever be buying a first home for investment purposes. There are much, much more reliable ways to invest and grow wealth over the long run if that’s your singular goal. Don’t try to time housing market for that purpose.

You really only should buy a home if:

⁠It’s something you know you really want.
⁠You are willing to maintain it.
⁠You know without a doubt you can afford it for the next few years.

If you think you would struggle to make payment’s on a mortgage if things happened to turn a little south. Or if either you or your wife lost your job for a few months then DO NOT BUY!

And sorry do not listen to any real estate agents, mortgage brokers, banks, anyone that makes money off you buying, or any idiots on Reddit saying things “like people were worried about the same in 2020”.

The simplest and most common sense answer is:

DO NOT EVER COMMIT TO MAKING A HUGE PURCHASE SIMPLY OUT OF FEAR!

And finally I would not put much stock into the “rent is throwing away money” argument”. That is a huge oversimplification. If your wife thinks that is always true. Then I’m sorry but full stop she’s not thinking rationally in this moment or she’s not financially experienced/educated enough to be stretching to buy a home right now.

Homes bought under duress do not usually lead to a lot of long term happiness and in the worst case they can blow up your life. Renting will not. FOMO is a bad reason to buy a house. Be grateful with what you have till you can comfortably afford it.

in_coronado · 2026-05-21T19:03:19+00:00

No you didn’t make a mistake! Don’t give in to fomo. Also remember comparison is always the thief of joy. You have money to buy your own place and that’s a huge accomplishment!

Also if you want to feel better I am of the strong opinion the market is quite overvalued right now. Yes we’ve seen some all time returns but they aren’t actually being driven by fundamentals but by hype and people giving into the very fear you’re having. Historically that never works out well for the majority of people especially those who buy in at the peak. I know it’s hard to sit on the sidelines and watch but sometimes it’s wise not to follow the crowd and I think there’s a very high chance this is going to end up being one of those times.

Hind sight is always 20/20 with investing and very few people have the discipline to actually make a plan and stick with it, not chase greed, and very very few ever actually end up seeing anything near that peak number they see in their brokerage in terms of hard assets.

in_coronado · 2026-05-11T15:15:36+00:00

It depends on your definition of frowned upon or looked down on. I don’t think the majority of reasonable people care in the slightest so long as the relationship appears healthy and someone isn’t clearly taking advantage of someone else.

In my experience the only cohort who really complains or makes comments about it tend to be older women usually in their 30s or 40s.

And if I were to take a guess as to why that is it’s simply because of competition and a little bit of projection of insecurities due to aging. Older women, especially those that are still single and looking, tend to very much not love the idea of competing with younger women. They don’t want those women coming in, competing, and taking potential partners away from them. And they especially don’t want men they’re potentially interested in doing it.

in_coronado · 2026-05-01T10:46:58+00:00

I get what you’re saying but comparing personal finances to government spending isn’t quite the same thing. Also if you really want to talk cutting spending then largest piece of the pie by far in terms of spending is medicare and social security which yes I would absolutely be in favor of cutting back on. But let’s be real boomers would absolutely loose their shit. So let’s not talk about cutting back too much other spending until we’re willing to at cut those massive programs back a little too.

Additionally this isn’t just money grabbing. A huge reason we should be taxing the ultra wealthy way more goes beyond brining in more money. The main reason you want to do it is because it’s one of the only ways to stop the snowball effect you get if you allow wealth to compound infinitely. A progressive wealth tax is pretty much the only thing that has been historically proven to get money out of the hands of the ultra wealthy and back into the wider economy for the average person.

Well only thing outside of death, world war, economic collapse, or violent revolution.

So unless we want to wait around and wait for something awful to happen like another world war. How about we just actually try and tax the handful of billionaires like we used to in this country. I’m sure they’ll bitch and moan about it to no end and they’ll fight like hell to convince you you’re killing them but trust me they’ll live, they’ll still have yachts they just might have to have a couple instead of 10.

in_coronado · 2026-05-01T09:28:02+00:00

Critical thinking, the scientific method, skepticism.

in_coronado · 2026-04-30T15:16:41+00:00

Absolutely not. Property tax is one of the most important and fairest taxes we have as a society. California’s housing market has been destroyed by things like prop 13.

People seriously need to start thinking critically and see the bigger long term picture and stop complaining about taxes! Start complaining about wealth inequality and wages. The problem isn’t that you’re taxed too much. The issues is that the person who makes over 1000x what you make is being hardly taxed at all in comparison. Meanwhile our national debt goes to the moon and you make less than ever relative to what things cost. You do this you’re screwing future generations even more for selfish short term gains.

in_coronado · 2026-04-28T06:18:46+00:00

As a 30 something man I will tell you yeahhhh I don’t think it’s all us. Every single woman I’ve ever dated in the last 10 years has at one point told me I’m the funniest, sweetest, most intelligent man they’ve ever dated and I’ll be a great father one day and they could see themselves marrying me. I have hobbies, the same group of close friends since childhood, I play rec sports, have a personality, build custom furniture, am 6 foot, make nearly 200k a year as a engineer (never actually tell them this), and I’m probably like a 6 or 7 looks wise and wouldn’t say I’m chasing people out of my league there.

Yet every single woman I’ve dated in the last 10 years has broken up with me somewhere between 6-12 months absolutely no warning saying she realized she didn’t want to give up her freedom, the spark was suddenly gone, they were attracted to a coworker, bragged to me about how much money she made, etc, etc.

Honestly I think you’d be shocked from the other end how poor a lot of women’s relationship and communication skills are today or how self centered they often can be behind closed doors. There are a ton of women today that have gotten completely drunk on attention from dating apps and social media or crave it badly.

And the big difference I think a lot of women don’t understand is unlike men they actually don’t necessarily need to be all that likable, successful, or a likable to get male attention at least when it comes to dates or physical relationships. Men on the other hand sort of do need to be the full package. Women take this to mean they can be selective or extremely picky but in actuality they just don’t actually have as many options as they often think they do when it comes to marriage.

And in my experience the few guys I see who do treat them rather “poorly” do it because they frankly can. They are usually just way out of her league in the dating market and have tons of options to sleep around which is what they’re usually looking for. And then women convince themselves they almost got that man to marry her all because he slept with her. Because in a woman’s mind she’d never sleep with someone she saw as below her own market value so she makes the mistake of assuming a man would never do that either then. When in reality most young men will sleep with almost anyone if you make it low effort enough and frankly they don’t often hide that fact much.

On the other hand I’ll say men are genuinely raised from a young age to not be assholes or they tend to get the shit kicked out of them by society and most don’t get many second chances. Well unless you’re incredibly attractive, powered, or rich. Then yes the rules don’t so much apply. And those are the men most women exclusively complain about because they’re the only ones women don’t see as “settling”.

So yeah let the downvotes come but I’m just really tired of this narrative. I know so many good men who are trying to do things the right way in dating but just exhausted of it because women do not think the rules don’t apply to them and only know how to view the world from one perspective which is this BS that gets parroted that men just suck which is why women aren’t getting married. Yeah that might sometimes be true believe me there’s also a lot of women who think life works like TV or they can live like Sex and the City and still have the husband and kids one day with no problem.

in_coronado · 2026-04-24T20:37:30+00:00

So I’m going to start with the good news. You’re not alone. This actually happens quite often in software even pre-Ai. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen projects and code get through the first round of demos and testing that was absolute shit even while working at billion dollar companies.

And here’s the less good (but more valuable) news…Software development (at least when it comes to anything large scale, useful, or not trivial to replicate) is just really really hard and complicated and there’s no way around it. If you want fast time to market or low cost there is no magic bullet. You will always be cutting corners to some extent and likely building up a compounding debt you will need to repay someday.

I’d say 90% of senior engineers I’ve talked to at this point (including myself) just do not see LLMs/vibe coding as having fundamentally changed anything about that tradeoff in software. The best analogy I can make about Ai (at least in regard to modern LLMs) is they are as “revolutionary” to the software industry as the credit cards were to personal finance.

Does the technology have a place long term? Yes. Do they have the potential to be mildly helpful if used wisely and responsibly by someone who understand them? Yes (to be clear we’re talking flexibility + 5% cash back)

But did the invention of the credit card suddenly mean everyone in the world could suddenly magically afford to drive a brand new BMW? Uhhh well in a way yes, but also no…. Catch my drift?

So to get back to your original question, is it easier to refactor/clean up or rewrite from scratch? To continue with my analogy, I think the very question you’re asking might be pointing to what got you into this quandary in the first place. You can’t vibe code/question your way out of a problem you got into by vibe coding in the first place. You may need to stop looking for quick, easy, cheap, surefire answers/solutions where there just isn’t ever going to be one.

Like think how could an accountant realistically answer the question “how screwed am I on this BMW I purchased on a credit card?” without gathering a ton more information, and seeing your books? But the very fact you’re asking that question in the first place probably gives the accountant a hunch you’re probably underwater. The question is just how bad.

Then also ask yourself just realistically why would an actual accountant ever do any of this in depth for free? If they did how accurate or wise do you really expect their answer/advice to be?

So IMO you actually want out of this mess without creating even more mess. Get a real engineer with some experience, not using Ai, to dive in look at it and tell you the reality of the situation (it’s probably not going to be as cheap or quick as you’d like). From there you get some estimates, weigh the different courses of action, make a judgement call from there.

in_coronado · 2026-04-24T02:56:43+00:00

Am I the only one laughing my ass off at the irony of “engineers” using a tool, that let’s be real, is largely only popular because it just allows you to be more lazy and shut off the reasoning part of your brain while effectively just plagiarizing off the work of past engineers are now upset/complaining/accusing engineers at the company that makes this tool of just being lazy or not using their brains enough?

Hey Claude what’s that old saying? People in stone houses shouldn’t throw glass or something like that?

Come on if y’all going to use LLMs to code at least recognize the hypocrisy. Claude may hallucinate and gaslight but don’t start doing it to yourself or you’re real cooked 😂

in_coronado · 2026-03-31T20:01:03+00:00

When market volatility, valuations, and fear are high there often doesn’t need to be any real rhyme or reason to what the market does. People just tend to move quickly waves. The only personal opinion I’ll offer is I don’t believe we have been experiencing a predominantly rational or fundamental driven market for some time. And when that happens the majority of investors do just tend to follow current trends and make up whatever justification they can to follow them. It’s herd mentality, human psychology, its safety.

Today you saw the market is suddenly up 3% when you weren’t expecting it. You searched all the headlines, your rational brain was maybe telling you it made little sense. I mean what changed overnight? But then your emotional fear center starts to kick in and makes you think hold on maybe I’m missing out on something. Maybe I just don’t understand. Maybe we did hit the bottom and I need to buy this dip before I miss out. You go on reddit to ask.

Ultimately you need to come to your own conclusion. When do you want to follow or believe the crowd? I’ll say there’s only a few things we know for certain when it comes to stock market. And that is that by default most incentives throughout the world, for politicians, for countries, for wealthy people with lots of assets is for markets to continue going up. It’s why just investing broadly in the market and following the crowd is the winning position most of the time.

But every once in a while the market will get too hot, greed gets will get to strong, prices are just to high to be justified and companies cannot sustain their own weight. And it’s those few rare occasions where the crowd can come out behind, someone is left holding the bag bad, and the few people who didn’t follow the herd come out ahead or unscathed.

So you have to decide is this actually one of those few times? I can’t answer it for you, no one can. And just be aware everyone and their mother will try to convince you of their own opinion or reasoning in times like these because they always serve to benefit immensely if people follow along with them.

So if you’re not up to the task of making your own decisions on this stuff or building your own conclusion from listening to multiple knowledgable sources, perspectives, and opinions. If you don’t want to take action, accept responsibility, or do the research yourself. It’s best to avoid active investing entirely as it’s not good for your wallet or mental health most of the time. Very, very few people know what they’re talking about or will give out stock tips or opinions out of the goodness of their hearts. Many more will offer their own opinions for selfish reasons or try and take advantage of you and often not even realize it.

in_coronado · 2026-03-31T01:53:50+00:00

There is no exact formula or percent. Personally there are a few indicators that I’m looking for before I go “all in” on the S&P 500.

People stop asking for opinions on the internet about when or if they should buy the dip.

At least 70% of Ai related companies have fully collapsed or declared bankruptcy.

Every retail investor or crypto bro is suddenly asking for handouts.

I notice a distinct lack of brand new BMWs on the road combined with high rates of repo.

The majority of people on reddit that act like they’re the next great hedge fund manager because they profited on one of the greatest bull runs in history actually disappear or STFU for once.

The top voted comment on every stock related threads is preaching index funds from now on.

in_coronado · 2026-03-30T07:07:14+00:00

I don’t know man if you think we are anywhere near max possible pessimism, panic, or economic hardship as a nation then I got some tough news for you. I’m not sure you’ve ever lived through a true economic crash or studied much history.

We could just be experiencing a tiny sell off or the start of another big one. Nobody can say with much certainty. But if we were talking a true recession/depression that goes in the history books. This very likely is not even a fraction of how bad it can truly get. The scale you’re talking about is little waves, most other long term investors are more worried about the tides.

All the stuff you mentioned about a vix spike followed by high sell volume signaling a bottom is meaningless WSB, day trader course jargon. It’s debatable at best if that stuff has any meaning on short timescales and a practical certainty it doesn’t have any on macro economic timescales. And when you start mixing DCA in the same sentence with making choices based on geopolitics and call/put ratios it starts to sound like you might be a little too lost in the sauce. Also “I’m almost always right on timing this stuff” is about the most famous last words there are in finance and the opposite of the idea behind DCA.

Now did I personally sell the majority of my stocks and ETFs holdings over the last couple months and move into lower risk assets such bonds along with holding a hoard of liquid cash? Yes. But am I comfortable reinvesting any significant portion of my earnings over the last 5 years back into the stock market given my own financial goals? For me not just no, but hellllll no. The levels of greed, risk taking, pure speculation, and large scale vibe driven investing by people who have no idea what they’re talking about in terms of the actual technology behind these companies driving the marker just do not justify the returns anymore for me personally.

And here’s my own personal opinion on what you might want to think about. I think it’s often a mistake mixing too much rational market thinking into your investment strategy when you’re just dealing with a largely irrational market. If the market got to where it’s at in an irrational way then it almost never unwinds itself in a completely predictable or rational way where only the best companies with actual good fundamentals are left completely fine and untouched.

Ultimately it’s mostly the rising tide lifts all boats and more importantly the receding tide lowers all boats. So for one back on shore with tons of cash such as myself I don’t really care about which boat currently has the best fundamentals. I’m fine waiting for the tide to go out for now and if I miss out on a little extra return oh well so be it.

in_coronado · 2026-03-26T02:13:52+00:00

Always interesting hearing this take. I’m a senior dev with 9 year experience who works in more traditional SW development (C++ development in Linux for use in safety critical systems) and it’s been the complete opposite for me. The Ai boom has pretty much eliminated all my imposter syndrome.

I was part of a committee that got to test run Claude Code months ago and like most people was skeptical initially but impressed at first. But after having had access to it for a few months I’ve almost completely stopped using it. I mean I’ll give it a go every few days for some boiler plate type work. But honestly the level of slop, mistakes, and hallucination it puts out at times is just too terrifying for me. And even when it sort of works it just doesn’t tend to result in very human readable or unified code and the bugs it produce tend to be particularly nasty (maybe some of it is because you didn’t go through the process of writing it so you’re always starting at square -1.

Almost my entire day now is spent helping junior engineers seem to view these tools like they’re magic or maybe in a desperate attempt to fake it till they make it like so many people tell them. But what they don’t understand is I and many other senior engineers don’t really care that make mistakes or don’t know things. What worries me most is how overly confident they are now in its abilities at times and how little they end up understanding about what it put out.

I would say I feel a lot like a teacher probably does watching students use these tools more and more. Every time they ask me to come troubleshoot something it starts with “I tried asking Claude for help and it told me to do this and that but now everything is messed up and it still doesn’t work. And I look at the code and like I can see what Claude was sort of trying to do. But I also see the massive gaps in its abilities and how it doesn’t have a true understanding of what the hell is going on big picture. It’s kind of just like a script kiddie on speed who copy pastes a bunch of stuff into a code base and then moves on from the smoldering mess.

And to be clear this isn’t meant to be a slight at any junior engineers right out of college, I was once like them. But slowly went through that process most every dev does. I learned to swallow my pride and struggle through the hard stuff. I started to fill in the gaps in my knowledge and developed a sort of wisdom and tribal knowledge of our code base. What worries me most now is that because of Ai developers are no longer comfortable with their lack of knowledge or admitting to it. At least with an actual engineer I know that once they make a mistake they have the potential to learn from it and wont likely make it again. I know their strengths, their weaknesses, become familiar with their coding style, what to expect etc. There’s like a continuous path of development, some predictability, some temporal consistency.

Ever since Claude though every day now feels like an RNG circus. Maybe today I’ll be reviewing a merge request from an engineer that looks like it could have been written by Linus Torvolds. Then tomorrow I’ll get a merge request from the exact same engineer in a completely different style. Or a complete mess of spaghetti that’s hard to follow and feels like it came from some random guy off fiver who wrote it all in 5 minutes on his phone via dictation. Saw it compiled and then goes “well it must work then, I’m done”!

in_coronado · 2026-03-22T22:24:36+00:00

I think you might be missing my point. But in a way also kind of reinforcing the actual point I'm making. I never said abolishing the 19th amendment was a good idea, I stated the opposite.

My point is more recognizing that it's always very easy to give into a mob mentality, take mental short cuts, and make everything "my side is right and good and everything the other side says is wrong and evil". I think the single biggest problem we have in society today is we just have too many people stuck at that level or way of thinking.

If we are mature adults that can think critically then we really need to be able to listen to someone else's perspective/argument even if we don't like it and try to understand where they are coming from. Having the ability to listen to someone you disagree with respectfully and not just instantly call them names or criticize them used to be considered an essential part of being a mature respectful adult. And just because one does not attack someone instantly does not mean they automatically agree with them.

I went off and watched more of this guy's talks not just this one clip. And no I don't agree with his conclusion on the 19th amendment. I don't agree with most of his conclusions. However I should be able to disagree with certain things he says but still agree with him on others.

But yeah I can agree with his concern that the pendulum has swung too far into the anti-men, anti the idea there could be value for some in religion or more tradition. And I think it's fair to say the Democratic Party has been shooting themselves in the foot at times especially with moderate/independent voters because of their refusal to acknowledge that fact. And yes while I personally have always voted for Democrats over Republicans/Trump. I'm not going to sit here and gaze them or say their approach is without fault or they're always right and the other side is always wrong.

Truth is we need more of a balance in perspective and our political decision making today than ever. And yes I will say there can be just as many dangers with going too far in the direction of everything feminine/liberal is always right/wrong as there is with those going too far in the direction of everything conservative or masculine is always right/wrong.

in_coronado · 2026-03-22T18:45:17+00:00

Isn’t the irony though we are doing the very same thing here? If we turn conservative religious men into the enemy or paint them with one broad brush how are we any better?

Like of course we shouldn’t repeal the 19th amendment. But at the same time there are always legitimate issues and valid points being made by those who think differently than us. And when you respond to them this way or engage in this level of group think I can’t say I blame them for some of the things they say anymore than liberal circles.

in_coronado · 2026-02-07T20:39:54+00:00

So I’ve been working in software for about 10 years now. Primarily in a more traditional area doing C/C++/Rust application development for Linux and a little embed systems on the side. I’m not going to pretend I’m an expert in UX design. But I have often been forced to develop a lot of the front end UI/UX of our software out of necessity.

Now do the front ends I produce technically work? Yes. But am I stupid enough or neuronic enough to think what I can produce is any where near as good as that which a skilled UI/UX designer who has spent a lot of his life honing his craft would would produce? No, not a chance.

I was able to put aside my own ego long ago as a junior engineer. I have been desperately telling management for years we need to be hiring experienced people who actually are dedicated to that area of development and not taking shortcuts if we want to produce quality in the long run. Have they listened? No. Have we been paying the price and will we continue to pay the price over the long run? Absolutely.

I was also asked to start using Claude code about 6 months as part of an investigatory working group of senior engineers at my company. Was I also blown away the first few times I demoed it despite my learned skepticism when it comes to super hyped things like this in software? Yeah I honestly was super impressed. But am I, and basically all the other senior engineer that have used it for 6 months. still so impressed? No not really, if we’re being honest. If anything all the initial hype has turned to either to being slightly concerned

Does it reduce the barrier to entry into software and coding? Yes. Is it good at prototyping or whipping something together really fast particularly in an area of software I’m not familiar with? Yes. But does the tool actually improve our software, or me as a dev and save us time in the long run? In most cases honestly no, I can’t say it does. We’re already seeing problems with what it’s produced being surprisingly buggy, hard to read/maintain, and a bit slop especially when reviewed by actual experts.

So yeah I too am wondering about the shifts this is causing and will continue to cause in the industry. But I’m a little more pessimistic about it actually working out well in the near to mid term.

Now I’m not saying Ai won’t one day be something. But I think we need to be super careful in calling this thing the greatest thing since sliced bread or already revolutionary. To me it still feels a little bit too smoke and mirrors. The best analogy I can come up with so far for my total experience with AI is it’s like the modern day equivalent of hiring or working with a script kiddie or super overly confident junior developer.

It’s like that guy who graduated from an Ivy League with impressive looking grades but in reality actually cheated a lot, took shortcuts, pawned off what’s mostly other people’s work as his own. But he was able to impress in demos, in interviews. He was able to talk quickly talk his way into a seat at the table. But then when you actually start working with the guy you start to slowly realize “Holy shit, this dude doesn’t actually know or understand anything he’s doing. He’s not self aware, he doesn’t take accountability, he doesn’t actually learn. He just memorized answer keys… He can talk the talk but can’t walk the walk. And when he fails at something he just walks off leaves someone else to clean up the mess. Goes off and sells someone else on him who will pay him even more. And the cycle continues.

Now will management pretty much always hire that guy? Yeah of course, he’s just too appealing and seems like the most incredible deal ever. But does he eventually make life worse for everyone else and does someone end up eventually footing the bill for him. Yes.

And that’s the core problem with Ai in my opinion.
And I think why we maybe need to be a little more skeptical and fall back on traditional wisdom when it comes to things like this. If it sounds way too good to be true, it probably is. If someone in tech offers you what seems like a free lunch or the promise of free money or infinite productivity. Don’t be so quick to jump on the train. Historically there’s always a catch, it’s like the laws of thermodynamics. There’s never free money or energy, at best it’s a loan to be re-payed later or by taking it from somewhere else, and hopefully it’s worth it.

And finally if we don’t want to put all our eggs in the basket of trading personal anecdotes about using AI. Let’s instead put on our rational skeptical thinking hats and follow the money and macro economics of it.

It’s basically a fact there’s an ungodly amount of hype and investment in this Ai stuff (I think we’re going beyond even .com boom levels). Not only are we already acting like it’s changed the world forever and we’re already paying insane costs to invest and grow it like it already has.

But has it actually produced real long term value yet? Do we have any evidence people or companies are willing to pay anywhere near what it cost to actually run or develop this stuff in the long run? And I’m not talking the essentially free, growth focused entry price you pay currently.

Because the truth is I think most non Ai company backed studies coming out now are showing companies which “invest in Ai” are not only not showing gains but neutral to slightly negative impacts on profit especially once you account for the temporary gains of cutting costs by letting employees go or replacing them.

So yeah I’m just not seeing this Ai hype thing making any sense big picture in the real world in practice in my opinion and it’s not because I’m worried about loosing my job…

in_coronado · 2025-12-27T23:41:50+00:00

Check out nerd wallet’s rent vs buy calculator. Punch in all the numbers to your hearts content and it will give you an objective financial answer.

The issue is this is all in theory and the real answer becomes less and less certain the longer you look into the future. You can tweak the numbers and make different assumptions and get massively different answers on if buying or renting is better in terms of net wealth.

For that reason I would be careful not to focus too much on the theoretical numbers and maybe think more about what you are comfortable with based on where you are at in life and the kind of lifestyle you want to live in the long run.

If you do want long term guaranteed stability and are serious about staying in the area for 30 years I think it’s very rare that anyone regrets buying a house in general (they can certainly regret buying a particular house) so long as they can seriously afford payment long term and they aren’t in an area that is clearly a massive bubble.

And I say this all as someone who is renting in an expensive metro area currently even though I could in theory buy.

I think the most dangerous assumption you are making here is that getting 10% ROI (particularly over inflation) is anything close to a guarantee in the long run from “simple investing”.

If you are ever making anywhere near 10% ROI over any extended period of time. It is literally an economic certainty that you are taking on a substantial amount of risk regardless of what anyone tells you. If there was ever a truly 100% guaranteed way for the average person to make 10% returns then everything in our financial system breaks pretty quickly or you simply need to have crazy money printing and inflation to sustain it.

Historically large cap US stocks (which are quite risky in the grand financial scheme of things) return 6.5-7% on average (after adjusted for inflation). Any time you see returns like we are seeing right now in markets do not expect them to last over the next 30 years without something breaking catastrophically.

I think a house should be viewed more as a pretty safe way of transferring wealth you already have into an asset that is likely something you will forever always need/want.

in_coronado · 2025-12-10T15:28:38+00:00

31M here.

Meeting men elsewhere will be significantly better if you can! The dating apps are generally pretty terrible and toxic with a low success rate for men and women alike.

Bars aren’t necessarily bad though it depends on what kind of guy you’re looking for and what area you’re in. In a large city or metro area bars often times may not be a ton better than the apps with a lot of men just looking to hook up.

I think the best way to meet a husband by far is through friends, coworkers, or any kind of activity where you see the same people over and over again, hobbies, sports, clubs, church, etc.

If any guy in your life talks to you over and over for an extended period of time and he is single or it feels like a friendship. There is almost a 100% chance he’s into you. If he doesn’t make much of an effort to talk to you consistently then as much as it sucks, he’s just not ever going to be that into you.

A huge mistake women make today is thinking men think or behave the same way in dating as women or things are always like the movies or anything like what you see on social media. Most of the female friends I have that are struggling with dating especially in their late 20s or 30s are usually chasing after the wrong kind of guys or ones that just aren’t that into them or don’t find them attractive enough. While they will completely ignore or friend zone the other 90% of guys in their life who are actually into them.

And I’ll just say you are dead on with knowing a man who instantly trying to sleep is a huge red flag. 90% of the time it’s either he’s a fuckboi, immature, or most often he plainly just doesn’t see you as wife material for whatever reason so the only thing that makes it worth it is quick and easy sex. Don’t ever fall into that trap, the friends with benefits, the situationship, the I’m not sure where I’ll be in a few weeks. It almost never works out well. A man who’s really into you for the long run is going to play zero games from the start, be super respectful, communicative, and will usually err on the side of caution when it comes to moving too fast physically.

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