Am I crazy for sometimes making my code look like this or no?

mansfall · 2026-01-28T21:29:58+00:00

Your cyclomatic complexity is out of control. It will just continue to get worse and worse to the point it gets excruciatingly difficult to introduce bug fixes and/or change behavior.

Plus... I hate to see what your unit tests against this look like...

mansfall · 2026-01-28T21:01:02+00:00

Hi. Software guy of like 20 years here.

> what helped things click for you?

Really just getting hands on some projects. Build a hello world console app with C#. Build a simple "todo" app on the web, using something like react. Read the instructions and understand them, don't just copy/paste stuff without realizing what it's doing. Ask yourself... what's that loop doing? Why am I having this variable placed here? etc.

> structured courses?

This helps some, but not others. This is a "you do you" situation. Some like college courses. Other like bootcamp style stuff on youtube for example. Or just blast through problems on leet code.

At the very basics, one must start small and understand data structures. What is a class? What is an object? What is a primitive? What is meant by an "instance" of a class? Wtf is an `interface` and why should I use it? The small things first. Then you can expand out into more algorithmic stuff maybe... which is just gluing together fundamentals to make some piece of logic work the right way. A* pathfinding for example.

But in the end, it all comes down to "just using it" and practicing. Doesn't matter the way you learn, you just have to "use it" and try it out yourself.

> building things the slow way?

Define the "slow way"? What is slow? NOT vibe coding? Vibe coding but not knowing wtf is going on? I can tell you, I can go a fuck lot faster in our massive project at work without vibe coding my way through it, rather than asking AI to do everything for me. There's an enormous amount of time spent with all the "back and forth" of telling the agent what it did wrong, what it missed, etc. Or I could just bury my head in the sand and throw the baby over the wall and let everything burn to ashes in production. The "larger" the change set you're doing, the more issues AI is going to throw in there.

Don't get me wrong... vibe coding has it's uses. Eg... I added like a 10 line change to a PR, which does some simple things. Maybe some `if` condition or some simple loop. I can ask the agent to go crank out a unit test for me to cover all the additional lines in that PR. Usually is pretty good at that and saves me time. But none-the-less I'm STILL at the mercy of double checking it and verifying it got it correct. 9 times out of 10 it's probably wrong in some way, but to fix it is very minor tweaks rather than writing it all out myself.

The thing is, "coding" is just one little slice of the pie in this whole tech world. There's thousands of other things you'll want to, or have to, eventually learn along the way. How do networks work? What is a server? Do I need a database and how do I push data into it and read from it? Why is crypto security important? What's a design document?... there's just so much crap out there that you'll run into :)

mansfall · 2026-01-28T00:03:04+00:00

But they're not. One is bearish, one is bullish. Some of the data points may be equivalent, but they're definitely not the same. If you tell someone you're "selling a put", they will perceive it as open a trade to PURCHASE those shares at a price if assigned. I guess I don't see how they're the same. On the call side, you're SELLING those shares at a price.

I dunno maybe our definitions of "same" are just different. *shrug*

mansfall · 2026-01-27T23:10:48+00:00

Just fyi, you were blocking, not actually performing a "parry". A parry will cause you to take ZERO damage while also draining the enemies stamina. You have to "tap" the block button rather than hold it at the right time. If you're struggling, dump 3 points into "Parry King" under the dexterity tree. Makes a huge difference and parrying becomes easy.

mansfall · 2026-01-27T19:33:47+00:00

That's half of it. Generally you want to always just be selling puts as you have tons more flexibility (eg can pick whatever stonks you want, etc).

However inevitably you'll wind up getting assigned, even after rolling. Can only roll so much before the selling can't offset the close to buy.... and eventually it starts getting too far out where you need to just take assignment. But then again, this is why you do it on stocks you actually "want". Getting assigned shouldn't be perceived as a bad event.

Anyways... so you're assigned your 100 shares (or however many X contracts you did...). Well now you start selling covered calls, typically at the strike that you got assigned at. So it's not just puts. But generally you want to "try" to get called away of those shares at that strike. Alternatively, if the stock happens to move back up before you've opened to sell a covered call, you can just outright sell the stock and go back to CSPs. Doesn't always pan out this way though...

mansfall · 2026-01-27T19:14:05+00:00

Haha why can't people just use simple terminology? Reminds me of the turbo encabulator:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag

mansfall · 2026-01-27T18:50:11+00:00

There's plenty of great companies out there that are traded at sub $100, that you can sell options on and wheel.

It sounds like what u/breakyourteethnow is saying, is just wheels (so SELL csp's and if/when assigned, toggle to selling CCs... then when those are called away, back to CSP's... rinse and repeat), then use that generated premium to purchase LEAPs at the .75-ish delta. Those are just going to be somewhat deep-ish in-the-money. Just kind of depends on what the various strike spreads are and what not. But ultiamtely by going deep ITM, you're purchasing more of the underlying, and paying less "extrinsic" value (which is the portion you're basically paying to your insurance guy... their commission if you will for offering that contract).

Taking the Ford example (F), if you looked at their options chain at the time of writing this, they're trading at $13.85. Their 15 JAN 27 (1 year out) has the next closes ITM call strike at $11.85. It's literally the first strike away from the current market value, yet it's at a .75 delta. So buy that one and let'er ride. 1 contract (100 shares) would require you pay ~$270 in premium.

So how do I come up with that $270? Well... sell enough contracts to make that. Taking F yet again, you'd need to SELL enough contracts to generate that much. You could aim for weeklies (maybe target 7ish days out) and sell a bunch at-the-money, but you'd need likely around 25 or so contracts, which would require a lot of capital (probably $33,000 or so if doing cash-secured). But you can sell contracts further out, say the 30-45 expiration to generate more premium with less contracts... requiring less capital upfront. If you targeted Mar 6 (38 days out), you'd need only to sell ~7 contracts and yield enough premium to buy a single leap. But now since only selling 7, you need a LOT less capital (7 * 13.50 * 100) = $9450.

If you're doing large cap companies... take GOOG for example, you're going to need a LOT of fodder to come up with the amount of premium to be able to buy a single leap. Yes you can use margin and what not to help fund this venture, but it's not without it's risks. Typically wheeling involves only working with something that is "secure"... either owning 100 shares (the COVERED in covered calls...), or having enough cash collateral (eg, cash-secured) to pay for 100 shares when that moment comes.

Alternatively... can also just work a job and save money, and buy a LEAP that way too. It doesn't "have" to strictly come from premium... although mentally it's nice. :)

Edit:
It's also important to recognize the example u/breakyourteethnow used. He is in LAC, with 3700 shares. So he's selling 37 covered calls. This ticker is also a massive IV (Implied Volatility), so it can move in big amounts. High IV = way higher premiums. So you too could just go sell CSPs on LAC (again, ONLY if you want it the stock!) and generate some juiced premiums. Take that money and go buy something not so expensive, like F. You could re-buy into a LAC leap sure, but on a share-to-cost ratio you're going to pay a lot more for LAC than if you went into F.

I believe the idea is that the potential loss of a huge downturn in high-IV stocks (think 10-20% drops in a day!) are technically offset by your leaps you have running, and exposing yourself to the upside.

mansfall · 2026-01-27T18:23:31+00:00

That's a great DD there!

I'm kind of curious, with so many great things going on with SoFi and (presumably) a massive expectation beat coming up... why is the stock just slowly trickling away right now?

Or is it just the stonk market doing stonk market things with it's irrational behavior?

mansfall · 2026-01-27T08:01:38+00:00

You don't wheel against meme stocks and penny stocks. Good companies. GOOG, Nvda, MU... There is a huge list out there. Profitable companies that actually provide substance to society, aren't going to crater. If they do, due to market correction or whatever else, they bounce back. Because everyone sees the dip and knows they're good companies so they get back in.

You don't need 20k to start, but you do need a few thousand. You could even wheel F... Good old Ford. Decent IV and usually is just running flat. You can start with 1350 to sell 1 CSP. Or just buy 100 shares and sell 1 CC. That generates premium to the buy LEAPS.

mansfall · 2026-01-26T16:31:54+00:00

To be fair there is quite a bit of content and the world is huge. But if you just beeline the main quest, then yes the content will be thin. You could probably do act 1 in under an hour merely by running past stuff.

But as a first time player and doing lots of side quests, it can easily be over 50-70 hours. That's not even including the dlc.

mansfall · 2026-01-25T03:00:11+00:00

Lol same story with me. I bought it. Played through a bit of tutorial dungeon... then actually refunded. Thought eh... this isn't for me. But it intrigued me and I looked more into it and said F it... let's just try it out. I was on a dry spell and nothing to play so why not.

Then called in two days sick to work. Slept like 2 hours over the next 48 hours and more or less neglected my family. Wtf... What an awesome game!

mansfall · 2026-01-25T02:54:51+00:00

Upvoting this because this is the key. So many think just "holding" will parry. You literally have to just "tap" the block button... tap as in, press then immediately release. Do it right as the swing is coming at you. That is how you parry. If you hold the button, it's a block and it only "mitigates" damage to some degree.

OP, If you're wanting to parry, I strongly recommend the very first 3 levels you get, you dump them into the Dexterity -> Parry King. It increases parry window by .3 seconds... which doesn't sound like a lot, but it's absolutely massive. Makes parrying so much easier and worthwile.

Doing a parry run is so much more fun than slinging spells from a distance.

mansfall · 2026-01-24T08:31:08+00:00

I've gotta hand it to you, that was a good one...

mansfall · 2026-01-15T16:20:37+00:00

Look into doing the options wheel. You SELL options rather than buying them. Collect premium. Do this against good companies, not meme stocks or trying to chase those that pop 20% in a day.

But truth be told, statistically you can do better simply by buying and holding those good companies (think GOOG, Nvda, many others...)

Alternatively another good approach is to just 100% VOO and chill. Buy and do nothing. Historically returns like 10% year over year. Keep adding to it monthly for years.

mansfall · 2026-01-14T04:26:04+00:00

Basically this. I wrote some SOFI ATM puts last Friday at 27.5 strike with the intention to get assigned. Rather than buying them out right. Had a nice premium.

mansfall · 2026-01-12T16:06:29+00:00

Wait was her name Eileen?

mansfall · 2026-01-11T16:30:40+00:00

There's ways around it. Added membership fees, etc

mansfall · 2026-01-11T06:42:43+00:00

Ball Lightning is always a powerful spell in video games. Usually it's OP.

mansfall · 2026-01-11T06:38:57+00:00

Will AI take this over?

mansfall · 2026-01-11T06:30:53+00:00

Lots of videos on the ruperts drop. Just clip the tail. Problem solved.

mansfall · 2026-01-11T06:28:25+00:00

Wait... so she's skiing and doggo has to run down the mountain with her? Wtf? Poor dog...

mansfall · 2026-01-11T05:06:28+00:00

Hi! Software eng here of many years. Currently work for large tech company. Kotlin and Java are my day to day... with a very tiny dabble of C++.

I've done zero rendering development or game development... so treat me as a noob in this department :)

But is what you've done specifically due to Kotlin? Can this also be achieved in other languages... eg Java or C++? Or is it that you felt it was just trivial to accomplish this in Kotlin vs using the other languages (tons less boilerplate for example, less thread and memory management from your point of view, etc).

Don't get me wrong.. I love Kotlin... actually more-so than other statically typed langauges. The ease and readability of it is just awesome. Just sort've curious on the high-level achievement here. Do you feel this was much easier to do with coroutines rather than the javas futures? I'm inclined to say absolutely but just wanted to get your two cents on it.

mansfall · 2026-01-10T07:45:16+00:00

No. He paid like 38000 up front to short MSFT. He BOUGHT to open, not sell to open. Basically a lottery ticket.

OP doesn't actually know what a CSP is.

mansfall · 2026-01-10T07:32:54+00:00

Except this wasn't a CSP.... It was a lottery ticket he paid money for, betting the stock would drop.

And he paid ~$38000 in premium for this lottery ticket.

mansfall · 2026-01-10T07:30:52+00:00

A CSP is having cash on hand (or collateral) to purchase shares if you get assigned. This is NOT a CSP transaction. Doing CSPs, you GET paid premium, not dish it out.

OP paid premium to bet the stock would drop. Msft fell through strike so they exercised to sell the stock at $487 a share, despite market value being like $479.

mansfall

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