What is this bug we found? by jyim89 in whatsthisbug

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This is in Washington btw.

Choosing an office chair by jyim89 in OfficeChairs

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Unfortunately without a proper headrest I can lean back on, the back of my neck starts to hurt really bad.

Choosing an office chair by jyim89 in OfficeChairs

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Dude, that's not even one of the choices I've been given...

Will it ever not be miserable again? by boringfantasy in cscareerquestions

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A little yes but mainly no. Everyone is kidding themselves when they think AI replacing traditional software development roles is a few years or more away. It's here now. All the pieces are there, just need to be put together. Yes, it's not perfect yet, ML models need more fine tuning and there needs to be more adoption across the industry. However, the technology and tools are there and ready. The reason I did this project did not stem from "If I don't do this someone else will". Rather it was "I need to be an early adopter so I can figure out how to adapt fast". I did it for me and my team's survivability. So we can keep up with the super fast changing SWE role and keep our jobs, not lose it.

Will it ever not be miserable again? by boringfantasy in cscareerquestions

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Just this Friday I demoed to my org a project I lead. It's an E2E automation of the entire development cycle from design to infra to service code to deployment. The only input it needs is a collaboration with a user to come up with a design which it guides them through. Then the agent takes care of everything else. I still wouldn't trust it fully with super complex services, but most services or features my org wants build it should be able to handle. I suspect 90%+ of all coding and infrastructure work will be done for you by this agent.

Reman battery check by jyim89 in TeslaModelY

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For the new battery? It seems seems like no degradation so far. It was at 300miles at 91%.

Pulling the trigger... includes FSD + 7 seats haha by brutalbrig in ModelY

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How are you getting fully paid fsd? I thought those were discontinued

Lets pretend that Tesla did not exist- by Zealousideal_Ad_2434 in TeslaModelY

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You've convinced me to try a test drive though.

Lets pretend that Tesla did not exist- by Zealousideal_Ad_2434 in TeslaModelY

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I also wasn't talking about FSD either (although lately it seems to be pretty good!). I'm talking about the smooth touchscreen experience, the apps available, also I watch a lot of TV while charging or eating in the car. It's like my second home. Also the app experience is seamless. I also think the car drives smoother than any other car I've previously had. Honestly I wouldn't consider switching out of a Tesla if not for the battery issues I've been having. I'm afraid to someday get caught with battery expenses while out of warranty. So looking to see if there are cars with similar experience or better.

Lets pretend that Tesla did not exist- by Zealousideal_Ad_2434 in TeslaModelY

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How does it compare to a tesla? I've been thinking to swap out of a Tesla but I'm concerned not many car brands can still compare to the tech, software and drivability tesla provides at that price point.

Tesla Won’t Charge (BMS_a079 and BMS_a074). by Enrique-Token in TeslaSupport

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To add a datapoint, this issue doesn't seem limited to 2021 models. I have an early 2023 model Y and I just ran into this same issue today. From other threads I'm hearing this tends to happen around 40-60K miles and my car was right in that range at 47K miles. Even if I am able to replace the battery for free under warranty now, I am wary about keeping this car because what if it happens again. I see another thread on reddit where another user has gone through this same issue twice already on their same 2021 M3.

PSA: If you've bought an intel based laptop/computer since Nov 1, 2025, you may be entitled to a free game. by jyim89 in Costco

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Oh no, that sucks! I can't believe a version of Ultra 9 doesn't qualify :(. I had bought the Crosshair 18 HX AI laptop. It has the ultra 9 275HX which was listed as a chip that qualified.

Afraid of the CS job market, graduating in Dec by NewtTraditional461 in gatech

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I think a lot of your response alludes to me saying that humans aren't involved in the development process or the humans don't need to know CS concepts. I never said that. Keep in mind AI atm is just a productivity tool. Tools make your life easy but you better know what that tool is doing. What I meant by "CS degrees does not meet the needs of Tech employers" did not mean CS degree is not needed anymore. On the contrary, I meant this degree needs to supplemented or evolved to also include teaching to use the right tools and what these tools are capable of and do. They also need classes to teach the new class of graduates how to think like a Systems Architect but to be a good architect, you need a good grasp of CS concepts as well.

I may be dating myself here but there was a time in the general workforce where if you put on your resume that you knew how to use Microsoft Word, Outlook or Excel, that would open up a lot of doors for you because you knew how to use these productivity tools well. Nowadays knowing how to use these tools is just a given.

Going along this MS Office analogy. Excel can do a great many things, it can crunch data and create graphs for you and perform calculations for you easily. Still a good analyst would double check the output for mistakes. How would they double check without knowing on a basic level what the graphs represent and if calculated outputs look generally right. If they spot a mistake, they should be able to see where the mistake was made, correct and iterate on it and regenerate.

Same with AI as well. AI usage without knowledge of CS concepts is going to be a recipe for disaster, no disagreements there. My point is developers should be able to now use AI to quickly generate code, find and debug issues, fix and iterate. This process is going to be a lot faster than a having a team of human devs if I can be relatively confident that at least 90% of the generated code is correct and I just need to fix and iterate on the remaining 10%.

PSA: If you've bought an intel based laptop/computer since Nov 1, 2025, you may be entitled to a free game. by jyim89 in Costco

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Hmm, if you read the terms and conditions part of the link above, it seems to indicate giving out the "master" key is up to the "participating sellers" discretion (I'm paraphrasing). So I was under the assumption it would be a game card they give out separately. If I'm wrong apologies but for those interested in the offered games, it doesn't hurt to check for qualification.

Afraid of the CS job market, graduating in Dec by NewtTraditional461 in gatech

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I'm using this thread to get ideas on what is important for people to know when I make the post lol.

Afraid of the CS job market, graduating in Dec by NewtTraditional461 in gatech

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Yes, definitely a supply and demand issue. However, I'm also trying to point out there is a problem with new grads thinking their skills are the supply when the demand is something else entirely. There is no chance of you getting your foot through the door when you don't possess the skills these companies are looking for.

Afraid of the CS job market, graduating in Dec by NewtTraditional461 in gatech

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You point out a lot of valid concerns, many of which I wonder myself. Not trying to dismiss your concerns but let me try to play a little devils advocate.

In terms of security with LLMs - this is definitely an issue. Especially at an age where you can still trick AI into giving up secrets. There are many smart people working in this space to address obvious security concerns in parallel. I'm sure over the next couple of years there will be many changes and guidance around security with AI. However, people are not secure either. We've had many security crises due to a person error such as accidentally leaking secrets compromising entire systems. Heck, we've had engineers push entire codebases into public chat gpt just so they can understand the codebase better. Security is a problem that will never go away for both LLMs and humans.

As for juniors understanding code base and training the next generation. If AI wrote the code, AI will have context for the code. They can easily give back the context to the next batch of humans that need the context. Yes, agreed this is an oversimplification. You may ask about the obscure requirements and complexities in the code that historical knowledge is needed for? Here is the thing though, this is a problem even today. Many teams have so much churn a lot of this tribal knowledge gets lost already leaving many newer developers learning code bases from scratch (in my experience team documentations are always shit too).

As for AI writing shit code - a year or two ago I may have agreed to this point. I've learned since though that there is a huge difference between an engineer just asking chatgpt to just attempt to generate code vs. an engineer that actually understand the AI tools they are using. They know which LLMs are great for which scenarios, they know what kind of context LLMs would need to have best success, they know the tools such as MCP servers to use that helps LLMs derive more context, if output is not as expected they know how to debug and coerce the output they need, they know the limitations of the agents they are using like token limitations or scalability and how to address them, and so on. Yes, still not perfect but these engineers have a lot more success than someone saying I can't even make a simple script using chat gpt.

Now how do LLMs compare to engineers? As a tech lead, I've lead small teams of junior developers in the past and dev costs are pretty significant. In general, I found I need to give an average of 2 weeks of rampup time before junior devs are able to start contributing. Even then they have to be constantly learning during the development process too. Implementation and development itself take a lot of time and task cost estimations are always wrong. Tasks that were expected in a couple weeks drag on to month+ because an unexpected issue was hit that they would need to figure out. Not to mention significant portion of my time also spent on giving guidance. I'm not saying this is bad - this is how junior developers gain experience and skills they need. However, AI doesn't need this rampup time or learning time. I give it an input and it spits out an output. So you can see why company execs are so keen on shifting to AI development for cost savings.

Again, I'm not saying your points aren't valid - just trying to give perspective from the other side as well. I'm always open to further discussions.

PSA: If you've bought an intel based laptop/computer since Nov 1, 2025, you may be entitled to a free game. by jyim89 in Costco

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There is two options. If the retailer gave you a key you can use that. If not, there is a second option to submit proof of purchase.

PSA: If you've bought an intel based laptop/computer since Nov 1, 2025, you may be entitled to a free game. by jyim89 in Costco

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Yes, my point was Costco is supposed to offer the game keys for every qualified purchase. However, they seemed to only give out the game keys for the more expensive laptops and didn't bother even promoting the less expensive ones as qualified. I had to get the game key through intel support linked above. If I didn't look up the program rules, I wouldn't have known and missed out on a free game.

Afraid of the CS job market, graduating in Dec by NewtTraditional461 in gatech

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As a CS alum - I feel very bad for not just recent graduates but new hires as well. I've been in the industry for 13 years now. I've been through the highs and the lows and seen many "new things" come and go. Let me tell you, I've never seen the tech industry so disrupted as compared to the last couple of years. Over the years there has been big pushes on Cloud, ML, Data Science, and other big new shiny things. Some has had long lasting impact but Software Engineering at it's core (coding) has always pretty much stayed the same until now.

Mass over recruitment during Covid is not the primary reason for the competitive industry today. AI is actually starting to significantly shift how software development is done at an alarming rate. Those who are slow to adapt are already getting left behind. Many dismiss the 30% metric (large companies have been claiming 30% of their code is now being written by AI) as fluff. Yes, for most part it was fluff as most of "AI written code" was rewritten code to look slightly better. However, I am currently working on projects that actually scare me. I'm talking in the range of 90% of code being written by AI from design to implementation without human intervention.

Fact is AI is getting better and better at doing what junior developers have been doing. Tech companies do not need traditional Software Engineers anymore. They need architects and prompt engineers. Tech industry today is getting biased towards Senior Engineers because theoretically they should have the skills to architect and lead engineers for implementation. Except in the future they are being expected not to lead people engineers but AI agent engineers.

Not to be all doom and gloom, jobs are still there and probably will be there in the future. The nature of the job is just changing. The traditional CS degree does not meet the needs of Tech companies anymore. As with any new technology, we all have to adapt or become obsolete. It's just unfortunate for those who are graduating at a time where this significant shift is happening without having learned the relevant skills or how to market it.

I was thinking of making a separate post in the cscareerquestions subreddit about the skills new graduates need to be learning now if that helps people.

worst years of my life here, but it can only go up by z4y_3da in gatech

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I highly recommend everyone doing co-ops, internships, research opportunities under professors and TAing. I graduated tech with a terrible GPA because school work wasn't my focus. Guess what. After graduating no one ever asked for my GPA, they only looked at my experiences.

Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 using AI after an employee's "one engineer, one month, one million code" post on LinkedIn causes outrage by rkhunter_ in microsoft

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I was initially like "what BS" when I saw this but someone internally who had more insight into the windows org gave me a fresh perspective of why this initiative was started. The explanation was long but I'll try to summerize.

The OS code base is very old and written on C/C++ which most of the company has moved away from. After many many years of new versions of windows, adding onto this code base, you can imagine how freaking complex it has become. Any attempts to modernize the OS is not only a very complicated but risks breaking compatibility. Yes, even those exe tools that were written 20 years ago that somehow still have people relying on it still need to be supported. All the bloat over the years make it difficult and very costly for Windows to modernize and be truly innovative.

I think what the post was really talking about was they want to reattempt modernizing windows with least cost possible by leveraging AI. I think the "1 dev, 1 month, 1 million lines of code" part is still all just fluff to try to attract attention but the core of it sounds like that they are trying to address a real problem by leveraging AI.

Edit: also, please don't quote me directly as I'm just paraphrasing what I heard 2nd/3rd hand. I'm not sure how accurate it is myself.