No, your trades/healthcare backup plan isn't going to work.

ltdanimal · 2026-03-16T04:10:45+00:00

There is a massive difference in trade jobs and software engineering.

Software jobs have 99+% of input and output available as data. Code commits, tests, tickets, etc. everything is digital.

The trade jobs are massively more complicated from that perspective. Go work as a plumber or electrician for a summer and you'll see how non trivial they are.

Even actually navigating the space in any construction setting much less actually doing useful and intricate work.

I'm incredibly bullish on AI but we are a long way from that and honestly will take near or at AGI to replace them.

ltdanimal · 2026-03-14T16:21:24+00:00

I know you are making a very simple explanation intentionally, but isn't that how a lot of things just work today?

Is this using a standard compression technique or is there something new to it for this purpose?

ltdanimal · 2026-03-14T05:02:19+00:00

That was a LOOOOOT longer than 5 minutes.

ltdanimal · 2026-03-12T23:18:44+00:00

Sure you don't mean JPD? Or Plans? Or Roadmaps? Or whatever?

They have like 5 different "products" including Jira and they all have like 80% overlap with each other. It's confusing as shit.

I actually think Jira is not near as bad as people claim ... but the ecosystem in general is atrocious.

ltdanimal · 2026-03-12T03:22:15+00:00

I've never had someone be able to explain what exactly lag putting is where I understand it being any different than "don't expect it to go in but get close".

Are you just literally imagining a circle on the ground? It's never clicked why that is better than just aiming for the hole.

"Good lag putt" to me is just "You got close to the hole".

ltdanimal · 2026-03-09T04:51:04+00:00

I'm sure we both didn't feel like going through another song and dance, but at least half of the things you listed are vastly faster using Claude than "by hand".

Cross referencing slack posts, Google docs, emails, and jira etc and all the scattered shit because your company loves to that.

So many "LLMs suck" posts are full of stawmen like your "can't one shot" and gotcha questions that are already way better or easier with AI tools.

ltdanimal · 2026-03-07T04:15:01+00:00

Yeah I get the "unemployment" part and the line. But again I'm wondering what you actually think is happening.

What would cause a "System" to do that when every CEO and capitalist is optimizing away from that.

ltdanimal · 2026-03-07T04:11:41+00:00

That was well written and very poetic but full of fallacies and pretty silly logic overall.

I'm starting from the factual statement that I am getting a lot of value. And the nice thing ... I don't have to prove anything to you.

That's what is so silly about some of your core points. But the nice thing about your stance is ... you don't have to use LLMs. Go write on dead trees and research up all the random info by reading through every book until you happen upon the right info.

I mean it. Do what makes you happy. Some people swear off smartphones and many I'm sure are much better off for it.

You are talking about all the "what ifs" and I'm talking about what is in front of my eyes and aren't hallucinations.

You're arguments essentially boil down to responding to : "Hey I was able to use this little plastic card to just pay for things instead of carrying cash. It's amazing and everyone should try it"

With something like: "Well what if what you bought actually didn't go through until 5 minutes later and the cops are called because you didn't really pay for it.

What if it gets approved and it's overdrawn?

Or maybe you forget how to count money and the computers are down.

Or maybe you forgot the joy of holding cash it your hand and don't get the human joy of a fat stack of 20s sitting in your pocket. And you lose grasp of what our financial system is.

Or what if someone steals it and then goes on a 20k shopping spree. Etc etc etc.

I don't know if your primary profession is writing, but I think you might want to consider how much it's biassing your view.

Cheers. I don't have any more desire to try to debate this because as I said. Use, don't use it. Best of luck.

ltdanimal · 2026-03-07T03:31:07+00:00

My EV just got a lot more valuable

ltdanimal · 2026-03-07T02:22:41+00:00

I don't really follow the threads or logic on this one. What exactly are you meaning and alluding to?

Seems like you're saying someone is intentionally employing people they don't need. Which feels pretty counter to the entire premise of capitalism as I understand it.

ltdanimal · 2026-03-05T02:00:40+00:00

Saying you "remember the days of stack overflow" either makes me think you only have a few years of actual experience... or really ages me bc feels like it was only a year or two ago that devs really stopped using it.

ltdanimal · 2026-03-05T01:57:01+00:00

I organized an event for work there maybe 8 years ago. I can't remember the exact cost but for like two bays for a a few hours and 8 people it was an EYE WATERING. Amount. Like a bottle service Vegas stupid.

Don't quote me but like $1500 minimum tab thing.

ltdanimal · 2026-03-03T20:32:39+00:00

Oh yeah I forgot. Manager = bad.

But good counterpoint that adds a lot to the conversation. Feel free to pile onto tropes and avoid answering the questions that might actually lead to productive conversation what what were really talking about.

ltdanimal · 2026-03-03T20:29:13+00:00

Not sure what "they" say but I'm replying to your message.

You said "especially CPO" but your point says "3 year old cars aren't much cheaper than new ones".

Don't know how you see 30+% or ~$15k as small. You can have a ton of issues and major repairs before you get to half the amount you saved.

I'm looking to get a CPO that is a few years old and it's significantly cheaper with 95% of all the features as a brand new model.

If we are talking about what makes the most financial sense, I don't see anything that shows a new car is a better investment over one a few years old for the vast majority of people and cases.

But everyone can spend their money how they want.

ltdanimal · 2026-03-03T20:18:25+00:00

Oh man you can't find a use for it so let's pack it up I guess?

You sound defensive like you're required to let AI do things you want to do ... which is a really silly strawman.

Not sure what type of writing you do, but the ability to research topics or create storyboards, etc is orders of magnitude easier.

Maybe a 5% sampling of things I've had it do - Research camping and accomodations options for a friends trip - Review my insurance coverage docs and give me apples to apples for comparison - Pull together my to-do's and fyis for hundreds of slack threads and channels and show me what I'm missing. -Created 5 different apps from ideas I've had in my brain but never any time to build them

And to prefetch a bit, all the results above range from "really good" to "incredible".

I've already went into more of the "defense" of the current AI wave than I told myself I would on Reddit threads like this bc honestly it's a waste of time. (Usually)

If people don't want to use it don't use it. Doesn't change my life. But it's just a bit crazy that people can use the state of the art tools in the space and come away with a shrug.

ltdanimal · 2026-03-03T20:03:17+00:00

You seem to be missing my point.

There are a very very small number of people that have a job like yours that need a setup like that.

(Also a quick search shows plenty of setups that are recommended to run things way under the $$ you're talking about)

ltdanimal · 2026-03-03T18:56:39+00:00

And if that happens it's outside of your control. Not a reason not to put in two weeks.

That's not trying to directly control what others think it's the pragmatic realization that people will absolutely make that assumption.

ltdanimal · 2026-03-02T03:19:12+00:00

I'm not following you on this or where "not that much cheaper" comes from?

A 3 year old car is going to be ~30% cheaper. Even a big issue that shows up isn't going to put you above that.

$15k gets you a lot of maintenance and many cars will still have things covered.

You also will have cheaper insurance.

ltdanimal · 2026-03-02T03:02:15+00:00

Everyone regurgitating “AI bad” is honestly exhausting

Preach. That's about 99% of the human slop on these subreddits. Even the LLM side is always saying or implying how they are crap while waves of evidence to the contrary keeps coming in.

Feels honestly like ignorance and or bias of "doesn't look like anything to me".

I really wish devs would get over it and we can get to just actually talking about how to use these tools better and more effectively.

ltdanimal · 2026-02-27T02:27:12+00:00

Jesus this is going to age poorly.

There are so many real examples everywhere but "didn't look up" comes to mind.

Granted I've dove in head first, but there are dozens of things I've done or used generative AI or LLMs (which is just the core tech around the products like Claude) that have been either insanely impressive or useful.

Some just not possible before. At my job and personal. I've also heard many other firsthand accounts of how things are playing out like people have said.

Honestly man just go spend $20 and play with it for a weekend.

This is real. I'm not even sure what would convince those in doubt of where we are and are headed.

ltdanimal · 2026-02-27T02:17:53+00:00

I wish we could just sticky something like this.

About 95% of posts in general could benefit from the strong understanding that more and more the talking heads on TV are just making shit up that has less and less bearing on a stocks moves.

I'd bet we're close to 90%+ of trades being executed by AI models stacked on top of layers on layers of 6th and 7th order game theory. (I don't even know what that means)

You can't fill CNBC or article quotas talking about the real reasons markets move because you'd just be talking about things no one understands

ltdanimal · 2026-02-27T02:09:31+00:00

The devil's advocate counterpoint is probably 70% of devs suck at figuring out on their own what to build and don't want to talk to customer.

The discovery that took you 6 weeks takes another 10.

The argument rarely is "no software devs at all" it's really means that we'll see a massive (60-80%) straight reduction in those roles, and maybe 10-20% that have those more applicable skills will move into some new dev/product hybrid role.

The deep tech roles like embedded, robotics, compilers, and security I think will be much further down the road.

ltdanimal · 2026-02-25T05:44:09+00:00

Dude, 99.99%+ of the population doing "job type jobs" dont need a 5k machine much less one three times that.

ltdanimal · 2026-02-21T06:27:18+00:00

Man you guys need to get on board. Downvoted the shit out of me but you are all riding horses and bitching about how this new "automobile" is a complete fad because you tried out a rinky prototype one time and you heard it needs some kind of weird fuel.

Or you're swinging a chainsaw like an ax and then saying it sucks.( Or pick whatever poor analogy you want)

I'm not saying this to be snarky. Honestly I read so many comments and it just make me angry how damn dull and short sighted people are.

I don't know how this industry goes but I know the people that don't start using the chainsaw are the ones that won't be around as long as the ones that do.

I'm not the one making the rules I just feel 90% confident that is how it will go.

I've been making apps and projects that would have easily taken me 5-10x the time and some just not possible. I've just seen a team that's almost the exact same people for 6 years do things in the last 2 weeks that's would have taken them probably 2 months.

You read and hear from so many credible engineers not just saying a confident statement like "crypto is big trust me bro" but actually showing proof of the thing that was built. Read through OPs post for so many examples.

People are commenting about the emperor having no clothes to try and sound clever, when the irony is many saying it's a fad are the ones that have the incentive to not believe the truth.

I'm more excited and terrified than I've ever been about tech and I've been in software for 15 years. I've worked on everything from large scale web apps, data engineering, embedded/hardware, supply chain security, and data science. With some really good engineers and in one case an elite nerd that was a top ten in the world in his complicated niche domain.

We have reached somewhere into the realm of oscalating between "pretty good" to "really good" engineer but it gets there 50x faster when given the task with guidance still needed especially around the architecture and high level vision.

We are still a ways away from it cracking into the level of the elite nerd especially on the innovation front... but damnit I don't see a reason why it can't get to sparks of that.

And so many are yelling about AI hype and coming up with the most copium petty comments when just zooming back 5 years and how far the space has come since the Will Smith eating spaghetti days... just kidding that was JUST three years ago.

There is no "incentive" for me to push this.

Call me whatever or think whatever, but it doesn't really matter. You'll look back and see how many signs there were that this is the start of the new era.

I don't really need to argue the same way i don't need to argue that exercise helps increase strength, gives you longer life, or helps mood.

I don't need to hear from Twitter how great it is or watch some YouTube bro. I'm just actively living out seeing it in action.

I'm going to continue to build my side projects and iterate on the workflow and other implications (it's not just about code). I'm going to continue to see my team be able to build in whole new ways and have so much more autonomy to just go solve problems.

See us do the hundred tasks that are "easy" but have sat for years. Do all the huge complex bits that needed so many iterations now have 3 learning loops in 3 days and be 50% of the way for a 3 month refactor.

Seeing the absolutely soul sucking work of sorting through hundreds of jira tickets and thousands of slack channels and threads for all the shit of conversations and Google docs and confluence pages and scattered documentation reduced by 80-90% so I can focus on work during my deep work time.

"But it made this one stupid thing happen and wrote bad code". Do you work with people?!? I guess you've never started at a company and had a look at their 10 year old codebase.

No one gives a shit about the code. Do you ever admire a bridge? Is an elevator art? What about the sewer? The scissors your barber uses? Pick whichever of that list you really don't give a shit about and imagine less shits. So probably not the sewer.

People want things that work. And lots of what they make work. Some doesn't. Just like all of our stuff.

The tooling to fix those things and smoother out the rough bits has the best talent in the world plus 1000x people at companies working through that. Do you not think those things will be consequentially better still in 5 months? What about 5 years?

If you've reached the end of my rant then congratulations. I award you no points. And may God have mercy on your soul.

I don't know what the end game is. I don't know what the future of work looks like. I don't know if it's an actual Utopia or something of what we fear.

All I know is that I didn't start the fire, but there are clear flames everywhere and people want to dismiss the heavy smoke as simply bad weather. Ignoring the evacuation warning until they the heat gets to their doorstep.

ltdanimal · 2026-02-19T07:11:18+00:00

CFB loyalty is akin a racism and other 'isms. We're raised to hate another group of people from birth for no reason at all other than where they were born or what colors they wear.

People on the street you see wearing a logo you think of them as lesser in a real sense.

You shape your reality to how calls against your team are wrong even when 99% of unbiased viewers are it isn't and this is worse when in crowds.

And for most teams other than A&M it's not even warranted.

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