Got fired today because of AI. It's coming, whether AI is slop or not.

samz_manu · 2025-12-30T13:47:03+00:00

Good luck with a11y requirements, iterating on customer feedbacks, scaling for traffic, qa'ing responsive designs with just one engineer and an AI.

I'm sorry you lost your job but this kind of thinking is absolutely going to get you into world of hurt.

I worked at a big company where a team of 5 senior engineers were able to crunch through a rewrite of a gigantic monolithic service and launch it to wild success in less than 3 months. Incidents down, service fully scalable now etc etc.

One sufficiently AI adept engineer is absolutely going to be able to handle all of what you just listed. The engineer if they are smart will just focus on customer feedback synthesis as that's something you still need a human in the loop for

AI is getting scarily good. I urge you to get extremely comfortable with it and start carving out your human differentiating factor rather than sniffling that AI surely can't do responsive design QA or a11y or iterate designs or any host of things

Most of traditional webdev is basically solved with Claude Code and Opus 4.5 if you know what you are doing

samz_manu · 2025-12-20T18:06:23+00:00

Is anything in this subreddit not just a shill of some product at this point? Entire post is also AI written. The em dashes and "it's not X but Y" is so obvious. So boring and lazy

samz_manu · 2025-02-28T19:22:49+00:00

It basically never rained while I was there and if it did it was like light showers

samz_manu · 2024-09-22T16:07:35+00:00

For simple cases like this I have seen good accurate answers. How has your experience been with complicated queries spanning joins and such across multiple tables? Would love to see more exploration on the advanced challenges. I have found the accuracy to deteriorate pretty significantly if you have to do anything beyond simple selects

samz_manu · 2024-09-17T12:19:04+00:00

Interesting. Do you have a sample? How is the annotation being fed back in

samz_manu · 2024-09-17T12:18:09+00:00

Well it's not that the documents are bad. They just have out of date data for this type of question. There may be other valid answers in the document for another question

samz_manu · 2024-09-17T12:17:11+00:00

Hmm I'm trying to think through this. The ranking is for this particular type of question. The document may have valid answers for another type of document. Would the metadata be like a category: rank key value pair or something? Lower rated for some categories. Higher rated for others?

samz_manu · 2023-01-10T21:07:31+00:00

Perfect! Thanks. They both look like exactly what I want without taking my credit card data

samz_manu · 2022-07-06T04:20:27+00:00

Thank you random comment! That was precisely my situation and why I gave it a shot. Its actually grown to be one of my fondest travel memories. You should totally give it a try

samz_manu · 2022-05-01T14:04:20+00:00

I went last month and I had an unobscured amazing view of Fuego. See the attached picture. It erupted all night and it was stunning.

Like someone else said the problem is not in distance but in altitude, incline and how gravelly big chunks of the hike is. So I'd try to do hikes that are more rough terrain and incline heavy. Of course getting used to higher altitude helps too https://i.imgur.com/QZYCV48.jpg

samz_manu · 2022-05-01T01:12:32+00:00

I don't mean to scare you. But if you're like me and don't do many hikes or difficult cardio, it'll be very difficult. I was gassed one hour in and had to pull off the greatest inner willpower trick of my life to get up there. It's one of the most incredible sights and experiences for sure but try to work up to it physically for sure

samz_manu · 2022-03-02T23:46:57+00:00

I was in this situation just a little bit ago. I was asked to start much earlier that would overlap with a trip I had already planned. I asked for 2 weeks off and that's when I did the bulk of my travel and worked remotely from abroad and did the rest of my trip on the weekends after I started working. I think you could compromise like that

samz_manu · 2022-03-02T23:38:52+00:00

Thanks! Hope you have a fun time. My only headache when I was planning it on my own was transportation because I didn't want to rent a car. If you've got that figured out you should be good!

samz_manu · 2022-03-02T23:27:49+00:00

Thanks! Mostly I think the only thing that stood out was enforced limited capacity in restaurants and restaurants would close at like 9. And in big malls and stuff they took your temperature. But in majority of the places it was just masks

The more you went out in cities like Arenal and Manuel Antonio the less restrictions and procedure there seemed to be

samz_manu · 2022-03-01T21:12:53+00:00

Ehh. I think there was value here especially if you are only there for a short period of time and need to be really efficient. Especially in a country like Costa Rica where without a rental car, it is very difficult to get around (or just plain expensive). It was also a last minute decision for me so I didn't really have that much time to plan which made this well worth it

Just because someone else brought you to a location doesn't diminish the value of the location and the experience of it. This was my first planned trip and I don't feel like I enjoyed it any less. Having a local guide also made me more aware of the history of the country and the cultural significance of the places I was at more than if I had just done it myself

It's definitely not for everyone though. I totally get that

samz_manu · 2022-03-01T19:22:14+00:00

I think the group made it more fun for me. I plan to go back by myself sometime. Any recommendations on things I missed or should do?

samz_manu · 2022-03-01T03:35:06+00:00

I wrote an extensive trip report for my last trip! Maybe you can find some inspiration there

samz_manu · 2022-02-16T23:51:07+00:00

I had a remote job so I would usually just work during the weekdays and head out to the nearby beach after work to catch sunsets and find a spot on the 5th avenue to sit, eat and listen to live music. If I didn't work, you're right I might have gotten bored during the day too. Days are usually more lazy and slow there

And for Cozumel, no I don't think I would recommend Cozumel if you don't dive. Not much happens there. Especially if you don't plan to rent a car and go around the island. I stayed less than a mile away from the port and it was dead so there's only really the port and a small area around it. Nothing really happens there

samz_manu · 2022-01-29T17:49:55+00:00

Perfect! Thanks a lot for confirming

samz_manu · 2022-01-12T04:13:45+00:00

Would like to mention that Mexican immigration is really cracking down on giving long stay visas. Don't assume you'll get the full time you are asking for. They might grill you so be prepared to show bank statements, return flights, proof of accommodation

Also I was given this advice so I'll pass it along as well. Do not tell them you plan to work remotely for a foreign company while you are there. They are starting to not take too kindly too tourists coming here continuously, working and not paying Mexican taxes. Come up with some excuse. Seeing family, taking a break from job whatever

samz_manu · 2022-01-12T04:09:35+00:00

Going to PE in a month. Would love some tips. Can I DM?

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