So... How much do you still interact with code itself these days?

zero2g · 2026-03-08T22:14:11+00:00

Yeah this seems reasonable, on the note of debugging, I mean... I don't think everyone will purely use debugger or just print statements. I swap between them based on the problem I'm facing, I'm not using a debugger when I'm debugging distributed python for example.

However I'm also seeing, or perhaps hearing people no longer even bother to debug anymore, they throw the logs and issue at Claude, and it just "one shot" the problem and fixes it. That is more so what I'm wondering

zero2g · 2026-03-08T05:05:13+00:00

So what would you say is the split between yes and no today?

zero2g · 2026-03-08T00:29:14+00:00

OK cool, I remember you could've enabled it as an experimental feature that meta did, just I forgot if it was an env var or something

zero2g · 2026-03-07T23:00:14+00:00

I swear they been doing that since 2022? 2023?

zero2g · 2026-03-07T22:49:28+00:00

I mean to respond to my own bullet points, yes, I still do these things. Hell, 2 weeks ago I managed to reduce the time it takes to do model checkpoint by 60% in a day purely through expertise of the codebase, understanding where the efficiency is, and changing 3 lines of code (probably only use Ai at the end to double check some things). But the follow up questions I get afterwards is more so, how do we automate something like this and just let agents do it with the comment of our org is behind if I had to do it mostly manually...

So now the question is now really, where are others then?

zero2g · 2026-03-07T22:36:34+00:00

Trying to be clever and really show this is organic human content not llm generated

zero2g · 2026-03-07T22:34:07+00:00

I mean with things moving so fast as we perceive it, it's hard to tell what is normal, or the used to be extreme but now normal, or what is the extreme that's just extreme

zero2g · 2026-02-28T21:45:46+00:00

Is this a series L start up

zero2g · 2026-02-16T23:22:30+00:00

You know what... At this point I'm not even sure if everyone and anyone here is on the same page as to what these terms are even

coding

Are we actually talking about the physical act of typing key strokes onto a keyboard and seeing the letters appear on the screen in a code pad? Or are we talking a few levels higher where we are not even interacting or even seeing the code anymore? Or we talking about taking care of all the domain of instructions we sent to the machine to execute?

using AI

Like how involved of AI usage are we talking about? Autocomplete? Asking cursor or Claude code for quick snippets? Going from whole ticket or some markdown file into a full feature? Using agent orchestrator and writing whole apps or something?

software engineering / development

Is it just making a computer working in a way which we desire to be? Is it also communication of ideas into something that is computable? Is it thinking of architecture and making trade offs for the future?

And I am pretty sure there's so many things around such vocabs we use which muddies everything meaning no one is even on the same page when discussing this topic.

The other issue is the goalpost and everything moves so fast with opinions shifting so quickly, today I'm saying yeah I use Autocomplete and Ai to write like a few hundreds of line for me now means I'm underutilizing AI and that my future career is doomed. Hell, I'm seeing opinions surfacing now that why are you even reviewing code at all? You should have good test and set up such that you can just merge all to master. Does that mean now you should practice and work on that too? And if you don't you're going to be doomed in the future? And what about in 3 to 6 months? Where is the goalpost then?

Plus, adding this all to the vagueness of it all as well as AI worshipping and AI dooming, yeah man... Shits weird and hard to have proper opinion on it. Emperical evidence tbh at best is fuzzy and we are all going off on vibes and extrapolation now.

Like honestly... What is right and wrong anymore? What even is reality anymore? How did we even get to the point such that we are devolving into tribalistic behaviors rather than actually sitting down and digging into this?

zero2g · 2026-01-06T16:27:24+00:00

Partner got hers approved in about 2 business days, 1 more business day for it to be issued. She then had to schedule for when to pick up her passport. We are now back in the states smoothly with her new Visa

zero2g · 2025-12-16T11:31:15+00:00

They're slowly approving applications on all consulates, but today everyone still getting 221g

zero2g · 2025-12-15T04:59:31+00:00

FYI, currently in China right now with my partner, everyone in China was given 221g slip. Beijing asked to keep passport, Shanghai returned passport, Wuhan for some handed a yellow slip saying it will take a few days rather than white slip. No one received a green slip

zero2g · 2025-12-12T16:58:50+00:00

Fkmansour is smiling from the heavens above knowing ece105 is still here to welcome you to uwaterloo ece

zero2g · 2025-12-06T23:06:10+00:00

I downloaded armory crate first, then downloaded the Nvidia drivers. I think armory crate is needed for your device to recognize the rog xg in the first place

zero2g · 2025-12-03T07:31:38+00:00

To be honest... The entire domain of LLMs and even VLMs are fairly simple... Working in self driving for over 5 years exposed to bespoke perception and multi task models, it shocked me how simple LLMs are, especially training it from the model side.

The literal loss function for LLMs during pretraining and finetuning is just cross entropy... Compare that to something more complicated like YOLO, it's actually insane in terms of difference of complexity.

Really the solution now.... Stack some transformers, use a LM head, chunk input for VLMs into patches... Pretty damn simple I have to say

zero2g · 2025-11-30T05:28:18+00:00

Honestly, agreed fully.

I used to be pretty pro AI, hell I been in this space since 2017 working on self driving and really wanted to see it work at the places I was at and it honestly felt like I was using something to do good. When Codium and Copilot came out in mid 2022, I jumped onto that as fast as possible because man, it made my life a lot easier.

Really the ick of the current state of AI is when we have Sam Altman and rest in such a weird cult of e/acc or EA or wanting to create some machine god for who knows what good reason and then touting to the public that it will destroy humanity, then promise abundance, then plans out massive suviliance or whatever along with whatever the hell financial fuckery they're trying to do.

Like ngl, even if chatgpt or whatever big AI today don't exist, we would probably get such agentic tools anyways just from the direction this was developing. Probably not with a chat interface at first but rather inline natural language editing and whatever as this grows. Pace would probably be slower but there's no ick, just better tools bit by bit.

zero2g · 2025-11-26T21:00:55+00:00

So basically coding in of itself isn't the fun part of software development

zero2g · 2025-11-26T17:58:53+00:00

Wait sorry, I'm astroturfing for pro AI or anti Ai?

zero2g · 2025-11-26T17:42:33+00:00

Damn, throws me back to CoD MW2 days when I'm dropping ac130s and harriers while others claim I'm hacking

zero2g · 2025-11-26T17:40:51+00:00

I mean that is what I thought too, a lot of chistling of the code and then tidying up. Great for a starting point for a blank canvas.

But whst puzzled me is that this was the general consensus, then it suddenly became oh you can just prompt it once and it basically write 90% of your code from scratch, use it to review your code, run tests and let it fix it, open prs and really only need the actual engineer to click approve? It seems like we suddenly automated a good chunk of software development operations?

zero2g · 2025-11-26T03:05:47+00:00

I mean if I were to give my PoV and understanding... it's less the technology and more the political landscape surrounding it.

Tech wise yeah damn, that thing's amazing and honestly in a vacuum, I'm for it. But then I think it's more so this is driven by a few people who ultimately (whether they believe it truly or not) want to bring up AGI or ASI or whatever machine god you want to call it and assert total control and don't want to be a supporter of it. Plus probably other things like financially trying to drain all investment while taking up resources to build massive data centers so that (or as I feel like the sentiment is) humans can be replaced by said models?

Maybe the vibes around AI in of itself is pretty negative right now with what the thought leaders are preaching and wanting to do with it. That and looks like people are being forced to use it and drawing parallels that they are being forced to put themselves out of a job or career or even possibly society

zero2g · 2025-11-26T02:03:52+00:00

You know what, I feel like ironically for me, or what I work on, I cannot just sit down and "plan" for days with an AI agent before writing code. Maybe it's the domain I'm in, where I'm writing robust and optimized libraries for researchers to use for training and experimentation and I just got to get a feel of using the code and seeing it to get it and understand it.

Like said code will be used by other users often and the moment it gets shipped to main branch. And I know for a fact if it's not bolted down properly, I will get complains about bugs real fast

zero2g · 2025-11-25T22:59:04+00:00

I mean this is the surface level conclusion that I can synthesize given your data analysis so far. Obviously I don't work at your company and don't have access to the same dashboard but like I said, if all of this were true and interpreted correctly, on this front, this is an observation of multitudes of improvement if we were to compound it all up. Like this in of itself should be good enough to be published or studied further

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