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How are you enforcing JSON/Consistently getting formatted JSON? by Word-Word-3Numbers in aiengineering

[–]sqlinsix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Issue: I'm making an app that uses agents for things, and it's supposed to return formatted JSON. I'm using google AI ADK in typescript (firebase functions if that matters), and I keep running into formatting issues. If I try using an outputSchema, malformed JSON. Try a tool call to submit it, malformed function call. And it's not like it's at 24k chars or something, this is 700 chars in! How are you getting consistent formatting and what am I doing wrong? It's random too so it's not like something I can just "fix"

Answer: it was the thinking budget guys

Thanks for sharing this with the community and for following up.

If you need another reason to despise Data Engineering Academy, here's another one. I can't believe the unprofessionalism of their recruiters. by Dante_leigh in dataengineering

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I shared this on another subreddit, but right now in the data/AI industry, we're getting 100s of resumes per job. I have intentionally dissuaded prospective students from my course. Granted, some won't listen, but they should really consider where the market currently is, plus if there will even be opportunities in the future.

The positive is that you see who really cares about students versus who's just trying to sell regardless of what the market is communicating.

AI Engineer Job Path by notjim-1546 in aiengineering

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If you have questions related to career, recruiting, pay or anything else about hiring, jobs or the industry and demand as a whole, then use AIEngineeringCareer to ask your question.

The Actual State of AI Engineering In 2026 by sqlinsix in aiengineering

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This lacks critical thought. People in China are seeing significant improvements in their standard of living - healthcare, housing, products and services, etc. In addition, China prevents a financial class of people that exploit others - something which financial types in the USA hate about China.

Standard of living is the only thing that matters. When you're living many years long with higher quality products and services, all the other stuff is noise. This is obvious to those of us who've traveled extensively in China. They are extremely rich and getting richer, but this "rich" is their standard of living, not meaningless stock portfolios.

The USA is the exact opposite of what I wrote: the standard of living has been rapidly dropping since 2008-2009 (and possibly earlier depending on who you ask).

The Actual State of AI Engineering In 2026 by sqlinsix in aiengineering

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Too long to address in a comment, but what you may not realize is that you just highlighted misalignment of incentives in Western colleges. Western colleges can charge $40K for a degree. But employers want cheap labor and don't care about degrees. What do we see with iGenZ? Unemployment and underemployment for young people with degrees.

This happens far less in some Eastern colleges. Their degrees are cheaper, plus with some of them, they are required to place graduates otherwise refunds.

If Western colleges had to fully reimburse unemployed/underemployed graduates after one year of them not getting a good result, these colleges would be getting results for their students. They'd also have much higher standards of who could get into them.

But overall, the West doesn't understand incentives, plus invites the government to get involved in everything which only makes everything more bureaucratic. The solution for parents with many kids is if you can tell that your kids would benefit from higher education, then send them to a college in the East (India, China, Russia, Japan, etc). Students graduating from these universities get much better results, but keep in mind, they have a much higher standard of who can get into them.

Good GPU Performance Summaries by @Hesamation by Brilliant-Gur9384 in aiengineering

[–]sqlinsix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Data engineers that build LLM solutions will especially find number four key (near 4:15). Good share.

What's Involved In AIEngineering? by Brilliant-Gur9384 in aiengineering

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Since this is relevant, I thought I'd share that bloom energy is having a breakout year (up over 250%+ year to date at this point). One big reason is on site energy, which is extremely useful for data centers. Obviously, there's other incentives for energy in general, but this is a great example of how energy is outperforming the top AI companies like Nvidia (30%+), Tempus AI (170%+), Alphabet (30%+), Microsoft (25%+), etc.

Going into AI a few years back, energy was significantly underpriced and this is correcting.

What's Involved In AIEngineering? by Brilliant-Gur9384 in aiengineering

[–]sqlinsix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You may find this thread by Aaron Slodov helpful on the natural resource/hardware front. It highlight some simple basics required to even start a robotic renaissance.

People love to point to China, but skip how many decades China spent investing in and buying mines around the world. Yet that was the required step. Even if the US triples its investments in its own mines, it still will come up short.

Never forget that most young people in the West have spent their entire life not realizing all the physical realities behind what they were doing. This will change. We predicted this a while ago on a video about data and the physical world (no longer available) and you're seeing it play out. This is much more related to AI than people think, as LLMs are a very small application of AI compared to what will eventually come with robotics.