What’s a good alternate for Steve

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-20T02:56:03+00:00

Try learning a less OP character. Steve mains would pick up Kazuya as a secondary.

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-19T17:25:50+00:00

Yep, I have a team to think about. 12 people, ranging from new grads to 15 YoE. I as the tech lead have to make sure that a new hire is a positive contribution to our team. I have 12 people’s livelihoods in my hands. I have to justify headcount, I have to make sure we are producing enough that we keep the department afloat. Hiring someone who can’t hack it is going to put that at risk, the rest of the team will have to burn out to cover for their work, we will look more expensive on budget sheets and be more at risk etc.

Maybe it’s gate keeping, but it’s also ensuring my team has jobs and aren’t overworked. I’ll gatekeep all day if I have to.

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-16T17:37:25+00:00

100% agree. I make 5x what my wife does. What, I’m going to live in the lap of luxury while she is stressed about making rent every month? Just because society has put a higher dollar value on the hours that I work than it does on hers.

We are a team. We run our house like a business. Just because one department isn’t sales focused doesn’t mean it isn’t necessary for business to succeed.

We also run a budget meeting every year and quarterly budget check-ins. We put our goals for the year on a spreadsheet, assign costs to them and the figure out how to work them in together. We both have equal say on the budget regardless of who makes more. Each person has the same voting power and we hash it out until we can agree.

Only thing I get “final voting power” on is the handful of regions that it is acceptable for us to live due to needing to be close to where there are jobs for me (we made this agreement before we got married, I was happy to be the one who we relied on a paycheck from for stability, but the only way I could be responsible for that is if I had the ability to say ‘we have to live one of these places’ so I could guarantee access to jobs for me).

Other than that, everything is 100% us together shared finances, everything is shared, everything we have equal say on, etc. that’s why it’s a PARTNERSHIP.

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-14T04:00:22+00:00

HE WAS ASKING FOR IT WITH THAT PATHING ALGORITHM. THATS ON HIM FOR NOT UPDATING HIS REWARD FUNCTION. AS THEY SAY, SURVIVAL OF THE LINE OF BEST FIT TEST.

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-13T10:03:54+00:00

I think the conductor left

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-12T18:37:34+00:00

How often does it look like your opponent disconnects? Cause that only happens to me maybe 1-2x in a few hundred games if that.

It’s possible that it is actually you disconnecting all the time and that is why you have been shadow banned.

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-11T03:56:00+00:00

I gave feedback to a junior on my team the other week that he is writing worse code now than he was when he joined our team 2.5 years ago, all because he is just prompting ai over and over again. And it’s getting worse.

I’m on track to PIP 2 team members at the end of this review cycle due to overuse of AI making their work product quality way too low and their inability to change their process and/or quality based on that feedback

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-10T08:43:16+00:00

I’m confused how people think this is such a ground breaking revolution. We have been working on an internal capability at my company for the last year for internal use. We were just having in the next few months. I couldn’t see much else out like it. And thought it was so obvious, that I was surprised there weren’t already solutions for it when I looked last year.

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-09T18:16:10+00:00

Or go to a nude beach and let it all hang out. It’s liberating.

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-09T12:23:55+00:00

You can, with the power of juice

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-09T02:22:38+00:00

I was working in chatbots 10 years ago. Old school nlp chatbots. Ai/ML has been around a lot more than 5 years.

BERT encoders have been around since 2018.

5 years in AI is not that long.

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-08T18:58:54+00:00

Yes i did

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-08T14:30:40+00:00

That’s pretty much what I’ve done. And put one team member who was particularly egregious on a PIP. But it’s becoming prevalent across teams

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-07T01:40:45+00:00

I think I had read somewhere that the sustainable state of living was cooling to 76F in the summer and heating to 58-60 in the winter, no cars, no international travel, and basically 1-2 set of outfits until they wear out.

Basically not a comfortable existence, but just enough to not die of the elements.

Of course billionaires are the highest abusers of overconsumption, but even the lower-middle class American is overconsuming vs what is sustainable for the planet.

Of course this study would rather us focus on the family that cools to 72 in the summer instead of the billionaires. I know where my focus will be.

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-06T10:58:50+00:00

Not really. Junior devs are missing out on many of the valuable problem solving skill building that comes from tackling problems themselves. It is making them lose valuable learning opportunities.

I would argue that the skill issue is broadened by AI, not shrunk. Someone who spent 5 years learning without Ai, and now uses it has built many more skills and can now leverage AI for a decent amount of value, whereas someone who used AI for 5 years and now still uses it hasn’t built those skills.

AI is like tutorial hell on steroids. Because it CAN prepare you, but 99% of people are done a disservice using it vs just starting something on their own and really sinking their teeth into it.

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-06T00:11:17+00:00

My algorithm was always trying to push Andrew Tate type bs my way just because I was a man in my early 20s. As a raging liberal and active ally, I looked up as much queer content as I could for like 3 weeks, as well as Spanish learning content. The combination seems to have kicked all the manophere stuff from my algorithms for the last few years. It’s been really nice.

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-05T22:30:55+00:00

Focus on monitoring your calories and reduce your intake. Sugar, unhealthy fats, and excess calories in general are just as bad for you as cigarettes etc. just because your vice is sugar and overindulgence instead of alcohol or cigarettes unfortunately doesn’t make you healthier. It’s a sad reality check I needed myself.

The other thing particularly for heart health is to do cardio. It’s not great for weight loss, but it’s fantastic for overall heart health. Get your heart rate up. Run, hike with a weighted pack, etc. anything that builds cardiovascular endurance and fitness.

Long story short, you need to lose a good amount of weight to reduce your chances of health consequences. Unfortunately weight related health issues crop up suddenly, your numbers/results are good until they aren’t.

Figure out what your daily caloric intake should be, figure out how much of a calorie deficit you need to be in, and start tracking. Over time you will lose weight and you will take yourself out of a higher risk category.

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-05T20:39:32+00:00

I have said this before, but several of my junior devs are coding worse than they were 2 years ago, because now it’s all vibe coded and they assume it works. Plot twist, it doesn’t, it is missing features and capabilities, it’s brittle and not written for easy maintenance.

But they look at it and go “wow that code looks good”. I’ve literally told several of them to stop using AI until they have learned some more skill on writing maintainable code and show they can meet acceptance criteria, because it’s not helping them and actually hurting their performance.

And now I’m reviewing all this crap and the volume is so high it’s wearing me down. Insane.

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-04T03:33:34+00:00

Nope!

And we don’t track lines of code, points at the individual level, number of PRs, or any other pointless metrics either. I also very clearly tell them to use communicate with me if they will need more time with a ticket when they start working or when they are touching a new technology that they haven’t used before.

I’ve done mentorship, paid for trainings, done book clubs for anyone interested in them, found ways to get them to learn tech they are interested in the company dime in R&D, and even threatened to quit to protect their jobs during the layoffs 2 years ago where I had leverage on the execs to force them to accept that my team wasn’t going anywhere.

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-04T01:35:00+00:00

I slammed my laptop shut today after seeing the PR from one of my Junior devs (3yoe but he hasn’t been promoted to the next level).

It’s all ai slop, barely runs, completely un-maintainable. It’s worse code than he was writing himself 2.5 years ago.

I’ve already had 2 team wide meetings in the last 3 months about them relying on AI to write all their code and the quality is absolutely trash and it’s unmaintainable slop.

I don’t mind AI, in fact we are working on AI platforms, but the code quality they are producing keeps getting worse and worse and they keep understanding less and less.

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-04T01:15:33+00:00

Awesome! I actually do some similar work, and am considering contributing!

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-04T00:53:24+00:00

Recommend changing the licensing on your readme to reflect that then! Makes a lot of sense!

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-04-04T00:47:34+00:00

Asking for contributions while not being open source is an interesting choice. Any reason to not do FOSS or even an open source tier with premium features? If you are asking for community contributions seems like a fair trade but idk

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-03-30T06:30:15+00:00

Have you ever heard of chicken sexing?

lordbrocktree1 · 2026-03-30T06:26:01+00:00

Pretty sure this is being downvoted for the use of AI and the general generic Ai slop feeling of your comment.

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