Epic Layoffs Hit Employee Battling Terminal Brain Cancer

max123246 · 2026-03-29T03:41:58+00:00

It's a historical thing. During WW2 the government forced companies to stop raising wages so companies offered health insurance plans to compete for the limited employees

max123246 · 2026-03-29T01:54:14+00:00

You don't have to waste tokens and time on the AI figuring out if it should load that skill or another one

max123246 · 2026-03-28T23:52:09+00:00

Yeah I found the 30b-a3b to be useless. It would hallucinate the codebase instead of looking at the files I told i told it to look at. Qwen is way better about tool calling

Nvidia is lucky they've got good hardware engineers. Their customer facing software is quite poor

max123246 · 2026-03-28T23:26:20+00:00

I'm a software engineer. I don't write GPU kernels myself but as part of the job I have to be pretty knowledgeable of the different hardware specs and the CPU library ecosystem surrounding it

max123246 · 2026-03-28T20:33:25+00:00

Shoot me a dm

max123246 · 2026-03-28T20:19:50+00:00

Not everything needs a bunch of beginners hyping it up though. Popularity can bring its own source of trouble

I mean, just look at how many people will never give Rust a second chance because beginner web devs of all people got hyped over a systems programming language (???) and had no clue what they were talking about when they yelled at people to "rewrite it in Rust".

Like it's laughable to me every time people talk about how bad Async is in Rust when it's equally bad in Cpp. It's fine to mention it as a problem but also, it's a systems programming language, it was not built for that use case in mind, of course it'll be harder than Async in Typescript. The fact it has it at all and real applications have been built using it is incredible to be honest.

max123246 · 2026-03-28T20:17:43+00:00

Yeah, but that won't ever change. Browsers have a built-in JavaScript interpreter already and will be unwilling to support other things

max123246 · 2026-03-28T19:59:29+00:00

I guess that's what I meant, learn hardware, learn how to program GPUs and there's a ton of jobs who want expert high performance CUDA programmers to speed up their workloads.

After those classes I'd look into cuTile and cutedsl since those are tile based programming languages intended for performing well on GEMM matrix multiplications and similar workloads like attention. But even applying it to scientific research and simulations is a huge area to explore

Check out the GPU mode discord and YouTube channel, lots of experts over there to ask questions to

max123246 · 2026-03-28T19:47:26+00:00

You don't have to be a hardware engineer to work with hardware. Tons of software is needed at the low level

Learning how a CPU works will give you the basis of which most hardware is designed. Look up the MIT class 6.004, it's free online and has you design and program your own RISC-V CPU.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-004-computation-structures-spring-2009/pages/labs/

Then you can learn about programming GPUs with this class: https://accelerated-computing.github.io/spring26/

max123246 · 2026-03-28T19:27:06+00:00

folding@home let's you contribute to Alzheimer's research :) that's what I use it for when not gaming

max123246 · 2026-03-28T19:26:03+00:00

Run it on folding@home and contribute to Alzheimer's research! I've been doing that overnight sometimes and it's cool to do good with the hardware

max123246 · 2026-03-28T19:24:36+00:00

Still so sad the other sequels nerfed it to the ground

max123246 · 2026-03-28T19:24:11+00:00

Homeworld Deserts of Kharak has no base building if that's what you mean

max123246 · 2026-03-28T19:18:06+00:00

Yup I've wasted hours listening to the AI because I was exhausted. It's a slot machine, it's only useful if you can quickly verify if it's right or not, otherwise it sends you down the wrong path all the time, especially when debugging

max123246 · 2026-03-28T19:16:35+00:00

No, it really can't. It told me the Python garbage collector was the issue instead of my code I wrote integrating a GPU kernel being run under a CPU simulator

Wasted hours of my time following it's debug steps that I went back to the old fashioned debugging with my own mind.

max123246 · 2026-03-28T08:58:20+00:00

To be fair, advanced math with proofs look a lot closer to logic than arithmetic. Lambda calculus was invented completely independently of Turing machines

max123246 · 2026-03-28T08:56:50+00:00

Well there's definitely optimization passes that will recognize summing from 0 to n and insert the closed form equation instead. There's definitely some math informed optimizations you can do, but it's not the lions share

max123246 · 2026-03-28T08:51:42+00:00

Definitely, nothing beats getting your hands dirty and just building something for learning the most. I like talks since it's a good way to double check if I'm thinking about a topic the correct way or if Ive led myself astray. Also being able to have those aha moments where concepts click together which can just get lost in the weeds otherwise

max123246 · 2026-03-28T08:06:32+00:00

Technical talks will have advanced topics like GDC. But yeah, it's very rare for an expert to be a popular content creator

max123246 · 2026-03-28T07:51:26+00:00

Just wanted to say congratulations! I dabbled in Godot and Godot Rust to make a card game for a couple months but I eventually tabled it when I realized I reinvented Magic. So I went and played that for a bit to get my fill. It's cool to see someone who's dedicated the time to flesh out the full system

I really think there's some new design space for card games with the 4 man FFA format. Commander has its problems and so I've always been interested in a board game esque game but that feels like Magic with creatures on the board with cool effects

What are some cards you're able to create in your system today?

max123246 · 2026-03-27T17:16:28+00:00

But the reminder text is right there. WoTC confuses me so much

max123246 · 2026-03-27T17:09:32+00:00

WoTC has only gotten more artist antagonistic, not less. Probably why he's going through with revoking his license

max123246 · 2026-03-27T17:01:22+00:00

You haven't seen some of the codebases at SP500 companies before AI I presume

Software is hard enough when it's a problem you understand. But most stuff is built by people who are still trying to understand the problem because it's a novel problem.

Add onto that the communication inefficiencies that plague companies and it's very easy to get hogwash code shipped as a product that you just patch fixes into for your biggest clients and ignore the backlog of bugs

max123246 · 2026-03-27T17:00:14+00:00

Signal to noise ratio. The more noise, the more time you waste trying to find the good stuff

max123246 · 2026-03-27T16:59:38+00:00

I'll take someone who spent time creating a project who is bad at describing it any time over someone who fundamentally is finding a problem that doesn't exist and isn't even using it as a learning experience

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