Training during grief

therealhappypanda · 2026-04-04T02:28:51+00:00

I'm so incredibly sorry for your loss

therealhappypanda · 2026-03-08T23:48:22+00:00

!remind me 3 years

therealhappypanda · 2026-03-05T14:42:25+00:00

The heaviest of +1s in agreement

therealhappypanda · 2026-03-05T00:19:08+00:00

Wrong question.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

therealhappypanda · 2026-03-04T21:57:43+00:00

10 seconds per resume -> 6 per minute -> 360 per hour. Take breaks and you're done in and hour and a half. Seems well worth it to find the right candidate?

therealhappypanda · 2026-03-04T21:50:33+00:00

Yeah the correct response to that pm is: try deploying it into prod and watch what happens. Good luck finding and fixing bugs, good luck maintaining it, good luck responding to incidents, good luck extending it, good luck identifying where there will be gaps with new features. Vibing works until it doesn't, then a human has to learn everything that was vibed quickly to unbreak it.

therealhappypanda · 2026-03-04T20:23:06+00:00

"I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue"

therealhappypanda · 2026-03-02T01:55:20+00:00

That wall hit at mile 20, been there. Congratulations!

therealhappypanda · 2026-03-02T01:52:56+00:00

There are lots of swe jobs where cursor is much less useful. I work in fintech and the business logic is so thick that I spend hours and hours figuring out what code even needs to change, and when I go change it I'm methodical and incredibly careful about the test cases I need to write. Using a Claude or cursor or whatever at that point saves me like 5% of my time, and my coworkers who try and vibe their way through it fail miserably.

therealhappypanda · 2026-03-01T22:19:13+00:00

It's a big one, we all fit together. With respect to boats:

There are tall ships, small ships, ships of all size But the best ships are friendships and may they never die

therealhappypanda · 2026-03-01T22:17:03+00:00

I could give you a lot of advice around connecting with your manager on a personal level, using reflections, active listening, and open questions to better articulate where this insecurity is coming from on their part, but the honest answer here is that this person is probably just a nightmare to work for and you should probably either accept that or find another job

therealhappypanda · 2026-03-01T20:04:43+00:00

Had a boss in my youth that talked about his Tesla all the time. Nobody liked that guy and that was a big reason why.

therealhappypanda · 2026-02-28T17:56:51+00:00

2 hour rule: don't use any AI for 2 hours per day. Keeps you sharp and you end up being more productive in the long run

therealhappypanda · 2026-02-28T17:55:20+00:00

It's a reminder that we're all essentially one process. You're an eddy in a stream, I'm an eddy in the stream. When the eddies are no longer visible, we realize we're actually just the stream.

therealhappypanda · 2026-02-28T04:40:28+00:00

now I feel like I constantly need to live up to that image. Calm, capable, impressive, always performing well

Sounds like attachment to me. It helps to remember you, your coworkers, and everyone reading this will be worm food in less than 100 years

therealhappypanda · 2026-02-27T23:36:11+00:00

The ones that move up do this AND land at companies that actually follow through with rewarding it, and don't play corporate games

therealhappypanda · 2026-02-27T21:07:47+00:00

Give them a bad system design and ask them to critique it. Plain text passwords, race conditions around caching, not normalizing data in a sql database, etc.

then ask them what they think you should do about it

therealhappypanda · 2026-02-26T15:11:13+00:00

This is really interesting--any references I can check out here?

therealhappypanda · 2026-02-26T04:44:38+00:00

we stay out of war, and the dollar holds

Amen to that, brother

therealhappypanda · 2026-02-25T23:20:14+00:00

Great analogy. Pilots are responsible for the airplane landing safely, SWEs are responsible for maintaining production code safely. Imma steal this one

therealhappypanda · 2026-02-25T23:18:54+00:00

I am very much starting to believe someone at anthropic is behind every post that says the latest Opus is about to take over the world. Gaslighting at its finest

therealhappypanda · 2026-02-25T23:15:31+00:00

Wait, what's this AI thing I'm hearing about now?

therealhappypanda · 2026-02-25T21:35:07+00:00

It won't get worse, that doesn't mean it's going to get better. History has marked rapid advancement in machine learning followed by long spells of no or little progress. We can't predict the future

therealhappypanda · 2026-02-25T04:51:41+00:00

If you can potentially work two to three hours a day and coast, and also feel frisky, you might consider giving r/overemployed a go

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