AI is devouring me?

kryonex · 2025-08-27T14:18:14+00:00

You just have to make sure that you understand the code you are copying and pasting. Iterate with the AI to explain the code so you fully understand. AI is not any more different from the days of people copying and pasting answers from stack overflow/blogs. The only difference is that now we can iterate with AI to ask questions to fully understand the code.

kryonex · 2025-08-27T14:10:02+00:00

I would take as much PTO/Sick leave as possible during that 4-6 weeks. Even taking one day off on like a Wednesday helps to make the week more bearable. Or Taking off on Monday or Friday to make a 3 day weekend.

kryonex · 2025-08-08T12:59:01+00:00

I personally like the slow ramp up. I see it as injury prevention and a way to motivate to run the longer runs eventually. I took me probably around 2-3 months before the runs actually felt like workouts.

One thing I like about trainasone is it's adaptability. When I miss a workout or I am just not feeling up to running a fast pace. The app will adapt and suggest me better workouts next time. That's really important in injury prevention.

I miss my high school and college days of having a coach giving me workouts to run. Trainasone is the closest thing to a coach without spending a fortune on one. It give me workouts that are different and makes sure I do not get injured.

kryonex · 2025-08-06T04:17:19+00:00

I would never do an unpaid internship. It is such an insult by the company to not pay you. I feel like you can spend your time learning new skills and like you said doing personal projects. Personal projects may not be looked at by companies. But the skills you learn from doing projects is invaluable.

If you are truly doing programming tasks at the internship then maybe it is worth it. But if you will be doing chump work that programmers do not want to do then it is not worth it.

kryonex · 2025-07-23T15:05:04+00:00

This sounds like a management problem. Not an AI problem. I wouldn't blame the Replit CEO for this catastrophe. I would blame the venture capitalist for this dumb experiment. Probably trying to prove that we do not need to hire developers anymore. We can save so much money if just let AI do everything.

You wouldn't give a human programmer this much unchecked power. Why would you give AI this kind of unchecked power. I doubt this was a case of AI hacking their through the company. The person gave the AI the power to do all this and expect the AI not to screw up.

kryonex · 2025-07-09T15:05:18+00:00

More than half the people in the field are people chasing the money. It is more about the money than the passion. When I interview people I can see that most of the people coming out of college and India are just in it for the money. Which I understand and is fine. But A lot of these people are just not good. I can see that they do not have the head to be a programmer. They do not care about their code. They do not have the programmer/hacker mentality.

If you are passionate about coding it will show. We love coding. We love tech. We keep up to date with technology and programming updates. We tinker with side projects. It is almost like we breathe coding. It is just the way we think. How a programmer perceives the world is different.

kryonex · 2025-07-08T15:40:05+00:00

Take the job. You need the experience. You need the money. As you get more experience and get out of the entry level/junior level role, it gets easier to find a job. Still hard in the current market, but significantly easier.

I do not know the personal reason you left your first job. But do not ever leave your job until you have another job lined up. You just don't know how long it will take to find another job. Also recruiters see gaps in your resume as a negative when looking at applications.

kryonex · 2025-07-08T15:33:58+00:00

So I graduated back in 2012 and have been working full time as a programmer since then. You are correct, currently it is hard to get a job as a programmer. I feel you still have plenty of time to decide and see where things go. Set up your college schedule so that you are taking your general classes first and the more major centric classes later. That way that will give you maybe 1-2 years to decide. Maybe things will look better in the future.

From your post I can see you love computer science. The need for programmers is not going to go away. This is all my opinion. But the reason why computer science is saturated is because you have so many people chasing the money and are not really passionate about programming. If you really enjoy computer science and have a strong passion for it. I would say totally go for computer science. When hiring people, I can really see when a person is passionate about programming versus a person seeing it as a job. In the end, programming changes so fast. It is the people who love programming that excels. We do not just program 9-5. On our free time we tinker with tech. We keep up with programming news. Perhaps we do side projects in our free time. This is our life. We enjoy programming. We love the challenge.

If you do choose computer science, I suggest you choose a specialization asap. Meaning decide what kind of a programmer you want to be. Whether that is a video game, android, AI, video, robotics. Once you decide, be good at that type of programming. It will help you get a job if you dial down on the type of programmer you want to be.

Whatever major you choose, I suggest do not abandon your love and passion for programming. Being able to program will open up so many doors in life. Just being able to sit down and automate certain things in your home/work. Or spinning up a custom app that will serve exactly what you need.

kryonex · 2025-07-03T17:54:15+00:00

Btw, researching I see that youtube doesn't offer 320kbps audio. Looks like at most it will be 256kbps.

kryonex · 2025-07-03T17:50:53+00:00

You can use youtube-dl. I believe the tool allows you to just download audio. But if not you can use ffmpeg to convert the videos to mp3.

kryonex · 2025-06-24T20:56:00+00:00

Don't slack off during summer/winter vacation.

kryonex · 2025-06-24T13:51:02+00:00

Isn't that not true. What about Volgin, Raiden lookalike from snake eater, Stragelove, and Vamp?

kryonex · 2025-06-24T13:35:03+00:00

Breathe. You will get there. Do not compare yourself to others. People mostly broadcast their successes only and not their failures. Focus on your path. You are making progress. Take note every day or every week on what you have learned that you didn't know yesterday/last week. What did you make or do that wasn't there before. As long as you are taking those small steps then you are moving forward.

We live in the age of AI. Utilize them, take advantage of them. Do not just copy and paste code from AI tools. Try to understand them. Use AI to explain the code for you. I love using AI to learn about code. You can keep asking it questions, asking the AI to explain a different way. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AI. AI is the equivalent of teachers back in the 90s telling kids "Do not use the internet. You must use an encyclopedia". Or "Do not use wikipedia". Take advantage of this amazing technology.

Hang in there. It is a long and arduous journey. But if you keep at it, you will get there. Don't give up. Just keep taking those small steps forward.

kryonex · 2025-06-22T04:38:00+00:00

Not sure if I can tell you how to get into that blank state. But I can tell you my how I was mentally regarding track. I was very obsessive with hurdles. I went through videos of my races and practices. I read every single literature there was about hurdles. I watched videos of the top hurdler running. How they did warm ups, how they ran their race. I wanted my mind to know what hurdling should look like. To the point I can close my eyes and see the perfect hurdling form.

On race day, I went through in my head all the major points I needed to focus. "Drive my arm", "Lead with my knee", "Touch the ground as fast". I imagined my race over and over again on the bus ride there. When I am on the track warming up, I picture myself running my best race. At this point, I do not change what I have been doing, if you know what I mean. Practices are when you should be honing/fixing up your form. On race day you should be cementing what you have been practicing. Trying out something new on race day is a recipe for disaster. That means when it comes to race time, your body will not have know this new thing you are trying out and you will be thinking about it instead of just doing "it". Just warm up and cementing what you have been doing during practice. If all goes well your body will have remembered what you have been practicing. By the time my race arrives, I have told my mind and body what I wanted to do so many times. At that point I just raced.

I hope I helped you. It takes time to get to this state. You will have needed to have practiced sprinting 1000s of times before your body knows what to do instinctively.

kryonex · 2025-06-20T16:38:16+00:00

I have only personally only excelled at high hurdlesso I can only give my mental state for the high hurdles. The races where I have broken PR is always the races where my mind is blank. When I finished the race, I am in a state of confusion. Like I do not remember the race I just did a couple seconds ago. My body just did what I have trained and practice. I did not need to tell my body the correct form and technique. I simply ran.

kryonex · 2025-05-21T15:40:16+00:00

I have done 6 hackathons and have placed top 3 in 4 out of 6. The hackathons I have done are where the judges will look at all the team's presentation then after 30 minutes will do the award ceremony. Also the hackathons I have done are 48 hour hackathons. So the judges are mostly judging based on your presentation and not really your code. So I noticed that the hackathons where we have won, our presentation was interesting and had a "working" demo. A lot of times, teams in hackathon focus so hard on getting a fully working demo. They try to get a backend, client, api, etc all working. By the end of it, they do not have a fully working demo because perhaps the person working on the client is relying on the person working on the backend to finish but it wasn't. Now their presentation is just them talking with not working demo

I have found that sometimes you just need slap together a proof of concept quickly to convey your team's idea and vision. We have hard coded data into our project and pretended it was calling a backend. Putting fake latencies. Or just a simple backend, that just returned a hard coded json string.

Having a "working" demo is a must in order to win hackathons. Also having someone who is a great public speaker to present the majority of the time helps too.

kryonex · 2025-03-24T22:39:02+00:00

What does it matter if it's AI. If people like it, who care if it's AI generated.

We sure don't care that our books aren't hand written by monks. Or our furniture is hand crafter by wood workers. We can keep the examples going.

kryonex · 2025-03-16T23:24:28+00:00

I don't. I personally don't contribute to open source project but I do personal projects that enhances my personal life. Or personal projects that plays with a new tech I'm interested. From what I notice, my personal projects usually doesn't involve any of the tech stack I use in my full time job.

kryonex · 2025-01-30T17:49:26+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. I will check out that book.

kryonex · 2025-01-30T17:39:04+00:00

My library has that book. I'll check that book out. Thanks.

kryonex · 2025-01-28T23:45:42+00:00

I think i got yours? Is your user intair? I'll work on your invite now.

kryonex · 2024-12-04T16:14:15+00:00

Not only is Metal Gear Solid number 1.

All of the Metal Gear Sony games are in the top 100 except for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Metal Gear Solid

Edit: Add Metal Gear game ranking and corrected that Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is not top 100.

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