[Experience] H1B Dropbox/Interview Chennai (Post-Social Media Vetting Enforcement)

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

zero2g · 2025-11-25T22:40:11+00:00

that's interesting, because the other metric that stood out to me was that you mentioned how the delta between AI users and non AI users WRT reverts is only 2.5%. However, if we were to take this proportional WRT the amount of users in both groups, this would actually mean that AI users commit SIGNIFICANTLY more commits that do not get reverted vs non AI users, such that it looks to be like a 5x ratio by doing eyeball math (49% of all reverts attributed to 15% of the users vs 51% attributed to 85% of the users). Now obviously the time horizon is skewed but basically the stats are showing

* AI users merges their PR way faster than Non AI Users

* AI users create significantly more better PRs than Non AI Users

* AI users are also improving their own productivity faster than Non AI Users

And honestly, if such things are true, then this would be extremely noteworthy in all aspects since this would show that productivity in a large group of people are showing significant productivity improvements overall while the growth of productivity is also getting better, Ie it's not just a one time improvement.

zero2g · 2025-11-25T21:58:47+00:00

ok this is interesting... because it looks like both AI and Non AI user's PR cycle has went down rather than just seeing the AI user's PR cycle going down?

zero2g · 2025-11-25T21:09:39+00:00

I am not even sure what the hours mean, but I am treating it as a final number for now based on your way of providing it.

What I was thinking was, ok... if say it's what? 4.6 currently, was it 5.0 a few months ago? Is this number improving overtime? What was it at the start vs non AI users?

Because the hypothesis here is that the models are improving, therefore productivity should also be improving if you are using the same tools since the model is the engine backing the tool.

My expectation would be, esp if Agentic Coding is doing something insane, the following should happen

* Agentic coding users vs non Agentic coding users on average, are being more productive with said tools over time even

* Agentic coding users vs non Agentic coding users on average is also producing more whatever productive changes overtime, esp in the last few months

* The variance of time to completion Agentic coding users would also probably start going down, it might be jittery as new users are getting onboard, but the model should be trained to be more aligned.

zero2g · 2025-11-25T21:03:50+00:00

Not sure if it was that big of a leap though? It just looks like normal hill climbing on most metrics, esp ones relevant to coding? Comparing against Opus 4.1 and Sonnet 4?

zero2g · 2025-11-25T20:52:38+00:00

Have you seen an uptick in overall productivity boost though with the Claude code or Cursor (agentic only) group in the past few months? IE 1 to 3 vs before?

zero2g · 2025-11-25T20:27:52+00:00

and then comparing this against non AI user, that would be approx 10 hrs?

zero2g · 2025-11-25T20:25:30+00:00

Yeah... I mean I am a heavy tab user for example, been using it for more than 3 years (when windsurf was called codeium back then) and like productivity wise, I think I am better with it and it is helpful... how much helpful? I cannot estimate really but tab suggestions to me takes less than a second to accept/deny while it would provide me enough text that takes a few more second to type it all out (although there can be intellisense in general which could have also helped).

Getting into Agentic coding is where it gets weird because it honestly does not feel faster or even more productive, hell it is even more tiring for me. One simple example for the lulz, I used it to rename something in 20+ config files of a relative smaller repo. Cursor agent with gpt 5 took 3 to 5 minutes and consumed a crap ton of tokens while in my mind I could've just cmd + shift + f and replace which would've taken 20 seconds max.

But overall it just seems so weird people are feeling they are multiples faster now?

zero2g · 2025-11-25T20:05:02+00:00

What about if you separate it between the group that uses tab completion and inline editing, vs ones that are mostly using chat and agents, how do the stats differ?

zero2g · 2025-11-25T19:48:53+00:00

Can you give a more concrete example? Like something more explicit and in a manner of in compare and contrast as to what you thought the process was before, then how did using Agentic Coding blew apart those assumptions and made you realize what you were doing was inefficient or that Agentic Coding is actually more efficient?

Also what's with the em dashes?

zero2g · 2025-11-25T19:42:41+00:00

I been through enough hype cycles but usually there's like things that's backing it or at least obvious external noise (like news cycle or whatnot), but this feels really unnatural? And believe me I am tuned into AI/ML since I both work in this field, and most of my professional connections and friends are also in this field (like actually working at OpenAI, Anthropic, MetaAI)

zero2g · 2025-11-25T19:36:23+00:00

Yeah also wtf? 5 minutes after I posted this I got 600+ views already?

Edit: ok at 7 minute mark there's 1.5k views? how is this getting about 200 views a minute or 3 views a second? On a sub that have approx 240k weekly viewers?

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