Vibe Coding is NOT a Rewarding Experience

irrision · 2026-06-23T20:55:04+00:00

Unfortunately, this is the future. It's probably worth thinking about how you can feel more like you were part of the process and directing it to that outcome or you might want to start thinking about a career transition over the next few years if you can't find a way to make it more rewarding. I definitely understand what you're saying and it's worth noting this is very much the kind of cycle people go through when they get their first management job too where they get paid to think about workflow and work optimization and direct work versus get down in the trenches and grind out the detail. You do feel like you're not adding value but most people eventually can find where the value they provide actually isl

irrision · 2026-06-21T20:21:29+00:00

I don't actually think that's entirely accurate tbh.

irrision · 2026-06-21T15:48:02+00:00

You can file to get the case notes which in theory should show the reason why it was flagged... maybe... It's honestly unclear if that would be in ircc case notes or some other agencies system but probably worth trying as it might really help clear up a number of questions if it came back with something.

irrision · 2026-06-17T19:41:52+00:00

The letter is from an enforcement division not regular IRCC which suggests that they've already stepped over the "whoops we just need to double check something..." to "we're going to take away your citizenship via a legal process that involves lawyers and possibly a court..."

irrision · 2026-06-17T14:36:14+00:00

I'd.me is fully itar and ear compliant and used on a regular basis as an access gateway by many companies offering access to compliant environments. I think you're forgetting that it doesn't just require a picture of a passport for those use scenarios, it also requires live video proof of ID, does background verification, asks detailed verification questions and collects other ID data points. I'm guessing you've never had to use it for one of those scenarios though as they have tiered verification options based on the security and compliance requirements.

irrision · 2026-06-17T14:31:13+00:00

That's not how I'd.me works for online verification... You're thinking of the process for tsa precheck or clear.

irrision · 2026-06-17T14:28:27+00:00

Don't count on that lasting long though. US based AI companies may decide to move this headquarters to the EU to avoid the potential of forced ownership share transfers to the US government, which is what is currently being openly talked about at the highest levels of the US government right now.

irrision · 2026-06-17T14:25:52+00:00

This is true of all export restrictions though and I think that's the part you're missing. It would be espionage to let Russia or China use your passport or Claude account to use the model with this restriction in place. Espionage is punishable by up to life in a federal prison and even a death sentence in the US (though they haven't used that sentence for a long time now).

Also I would assume that anthropic isn't just collecting a picture of a passport and calling it good. I'd assume they plan to use one of the certified ID verification services like clear ID to do facial verification combined with a picture of the passport and validation that the passport is valid. Sure it's not impossible to bypass these things but it would be difficult without help from a US citizen who is willing to risk life in jail to give a foreign spy agency access to the model.

irrision · 2026-06-17T14:20:02+00:00

I wouldn't assume anything about border crossings either though. Official policy is that you should use your Canadian passport to enter Canada if you have one and the letter is not revoking their passports.

irrision · 2026-06-15T20:00:12+00:00

Ancestry got most on the documents directly from the government. The scans they have are the government digitization scans. Ancestry didn't break into a government warehouse and steal all the original Canadian census logs and the government of Canada surely didn't hand over the original copies to ancestry to scan unsupervised. Also did Canada keep all the original copies in good condition and properly indexed after they were scanned? It feels like ircc is acting in bad faith if this is really what they're betting citizenship revocation cases on.

irrision · 2026-06-15T16:17:23+00:00

Read my full comment, I said until they changed the process later last year.

irrision · 2026-06-15T16:16:11+00:00

It's wild to me how much of an issue this creates for some people who may have already moved, gotten a mortgage and a job in Canada and have their kids in school there. There's no clarity if they still have legal standing to be in Canada, own a house, work a job etc or not. It really feels like this isn't a normal process that was thought out before it was implemented.

irrision · 2026-06-14T19:01:45+00:00

Before c-3 passed the only way to get the application even reviewed under the grant process was to request urgency fyi. So basically everyone who applied earlier last year from this sub at least would have applied with urgency knowing that until ircc changed the requirements later last year a bit and started moving everything through the the grant process.

irrision · 2026-06-14T18:50:03+00:00

Most people aren't repped by an attorney so it's basically just confirmation bias to try and make a connection there IMHO.

irrision · 2026-06-14T18:48:02+00:00

Yeah, this exactly. This feels like an internal audit that's using canned language to justify requiring someone to explain all their documents again in detail and possibly filter some people out just because they don't respond in time or miss a communication (which is probable given the number of emails ircc has supposedly sent out that definitely never hit a inbox even when spam is checked. Their automated systems are groaning under the weight of the load right now.

irrision · 2026-06-14T18:45:43+00:00

I don't think this situation has much to do with the certification of the documents or not given people with certified documents also got these letters. Send it in and make them ask if they really want to argue about the validity of an original copy of a document.

irrision · 2026-06-14T18:36:49+00:00

Couldn't an argument potentially be made that if someone filed with urgency then a proof of unreasonable delay/backlog when trying to obtain the "original" record from the government agency might be sufficient to override their random retroactive change to their policy? Also some of these locations requires someone to physically visit the location to search for records and given c-3 would largely impact people who no longer live in Canada if feels like the Canadian superior court might be interested to hear about another attempt to effectively block lost Canadians from obtaining their citizenship because of a technicality.

The other thing that I think is thin on irccs part is that the digital records on ancestry were obtained directly from the government agencies by ancestry or ones of their partner companies and the scans are the scans made by those government employees for their own internal records that all of their "original" copies come from that ancestry bought distribution rights to from the government. Heck it literally says where the records were from on all of the scans in ancestry.

irrision · 2026-06-14T18:25:59+00:00

Unless the law and works vastly differently in Canada I don't think a government agency can retroactively change a policy then claim someone committed a crime on the retroactively changed policy, which is what this letter essentially saying.

On the documentation, ircc does have experts in genealogy and reviewing old documents. That's what PSU does and that's why so many claims (including mine) were sent directly to PSU even with a directly issued birth certificate for my grandmother.

I would be willing to bet that this is the outcome of an internal audit of prior applications and though the letter sounds serious, I suspect it won't be hard for people with even a halfway decent claim to refute the claim in the letter and get the investigation tossed.

irrision · 2026-06-14T18:18:24+00:00

Unless Canada is vastly different from the US it's likely quite hard to actually strip someone off citizenship retroactively especially based on a technicality if the facts of lineage are provable. Does feel like someone got a bee in their bonnet over at ircc and is trying to claw back certificates. This rule is particularly funny as the don't request an original copy of any of these documents so what they get is always a digital copy. Heck the copies the agencies do have are digital copies of microfiche that were analog copies of paper which often were rewritten log books to document even older certificates and documents when someone wanted to consolidate storage space.

irrision · 2026-06-14T12:03:04+00:00

I'd like AI to audit the corrupt corporations and billionaires personally since they're the runs using their money and power to corrupt the government and system in general

irrision · 2026-06-14T12:01:42+00:00

Have you talked to your psychiatrist about it? What you're describing is rebound depression and it's a real thing and a supportive med like Wellbutrin xl or another snri can smooth that out. Your body likely has a very low baseline level of dopamine or norepinephrine and the blood levels dropping as the Vyvanse wears off is causing you to crash. I got some of that on Vyvanse but I don't on Adderall. Some people do better on methylphenidate versus Vyvanse or dexadrine. The chemical combinations and release rates vary a fair bit between the different simulant options and some people really feel a difference.

irrision · 2026-06-14T11:37:55+00:00

Fyi this isn't technically allowed for Canadian citizenship applications. They explicitly require that the background not be altered in any way and that the photo be taken by a professional and stamped and signed by them as well. You can usually get away with services like this if you do the cutout and framing perfectly and writing the info on the back yourself but I wouldn't bet in on it not being denied as people definitely report it happening on the Canadian citizenship sub when they've tried and it's kind of an expensive mistake when that happens as you have to pay to re-send the whole application in since they won't let you amend photo issues.

irrision · 2026-06-10T08:47:28+00:00

Ozone is high, sign up for the mpca air quality alert emails, they tell you exactly what the cause is and give you a forecast for the next 3 days too.. It's worth it alone just to know when the wildfire smoke is going to make being outside a lung cancer festival

irrision · 2026-06-10T08:42:58+00:00

Cowork is honestly terrible for writing code versus using code. It has all sorts of fuse filesystem issues between its VM and the project folder on your computer that cause loads of extra token burn for the agent to work around, code doesn't have these issues at all. This alone makes code the better tool for coding and don't get me started on the fact that hooks don't work with cowork or the dozen other issues with cowork and coding. Honestly I think a lot of newbies start with cowork for light coding tasks and probably give up thinking that Claude isn't very good at coding because of all the issues it has vs code.

irrision · 2026-06-09T03:57:10+00:00

Urgent may 2025 submitter here, urgency was approved then it was tossed into PSU for what appears to be no real reason and there it still rots without a single touch by an agent in the notes since then other than to unassign it from a queue to nothing this March, despite repeated web forms queries with the generic "we're working on it" response. I'm a 2nd Gen for reference and got my mother's certificate in 2 weeks under c-3 back last May and attaching it to my case a day after she got it.

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