shahbaby

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by shahbaby 26d ago
I've accepted that the "Old Internet", the one in which most content was clearly human generated (for better or for worse) is dead. On the flip side, the AI infestation makes the New Internet, at least for me, less addictive.
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by shahbaby 2mo ago
After you've filtered down the resumes, if it's not financially worth it to put a human on the phone for the initial screen, that means you don't value the people you hire. And if the cost to do that initial screen is almost
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by shahbaby 2mo ago
If a company is not even willing to have a real person speak to you at the start of the recruitment process, what does that say about them? Or about the legitimacy of that job posting? Or about the people you would be working with if you di
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by shahbaby 2mo ago
I've recently adopted the mindset that I will wait until things actually impact me before I will give them my finite attention. This seems to get easier as I get older. Death is the only certainty in life and reflecting on that makes i
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by shahbaby 2mo ago
Are you not planning these tasks out before you let it loose?
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by shahbaby 5mo ago
This reads too much like it was LLM generated. I can't say for sure if it was but I have an allergic reaction to the short snappy know-it-all LLM writing style.
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by shahbaby 5mo ago
> People love to interpret the results in the most negative way possible because it's a threat to their occupation and identity. OR it could be because their concerns are genuine but are ignored in favour of a good sounding story.
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by shahbaby 6mo ago
> I should care about what I am building I think that's the root of the problem. The company could lay you off tomorrow. At which point all that thought and care that you put into your work instantly becomes meaningless not only to
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by shahbaby 6mo ago
same experience here, fool me once I guess
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by shahbaby 6mo ago
Personally I have always spent more time than I would have liked online. AI slop degrades the quality enough that it makes it easier to cut back on that wasted time.
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by shahbaby 7mo ago
Because they aren't probabilistic parrots? If they get it wrong, there's usually an understandable reason behind it.
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by shahbaby 7mo ago
> That was not just careless – it was wrong lol
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by shahbaby 7mo ago
Much talk, less say, probably AI
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by shahbaby 8mo ago
> what I'm seeing is that all of the skills that my training and years of experience have helped me hone are now implemented by these tools to the level that I know most businesses would be satisfied by. So when things break or they
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by shahbaby 9mo ago
Does it impact you that much?
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by shahbaby 9mo ago
You NEED to be getting at least 1 interview (with a human, never do one sided AI interviews) per month. Interviewing is a skill and unfortunately the best way to practice that skill is real interviews. If a month goes by without a single in
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by shahbaby 9mo ago
When LLMs become better than humans at the following: 1. Knowing what you don't know 2. Knowing who is likely to know 3. Asking the question in a way that the other human, with their limited attention and context-window, is able to giv
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by shahbaby 10mo ago
Accountability
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by shahbaby 10mo ago
Let's put things into perspective. You could be made unemployable even without AI, all it takes is a bit of bad luck. This fear of AI taking over your job is manufactured.
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by shahbaby 10mo ago
I think people should get paid for the time they spend commuting too and from work. Companies would change their tune on WFH real quick if that were the case.
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by shahbaby 10mo ago
The most ironic part is that AI skills won't really help you with job security. You touched on some of the reasons; it doesn't take much skill to call an API, the technology is in a period of rapid evolution, etc. And now with alm
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by shahbaby 11mo ago
I wouldn't say it's as clear cut as that. One can make a reasonable argument for why the leetcode grind is the lesser evil. If the goal is to keep your motivation up, you have to find some joy in the activity itself.
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by shahbaby 11mo ago
Any overlap between interview skills and job performance is a coincidence. You have to accept this on a visceral level. Alternatively, remember that the reason the company is making you jump through these hoops is that there are many other
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by shahbaby 11mo ago
This guy startups.
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by shahbaby 11mo ago
For most other ideas you can build a quick MVP to validate or perhaps even just a landing page. Games take much longer to get off the ground. I think the reason we don't see many LLM wrappers is because Games are technically complex, m
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by shahbaby 11mo ago
Agreed but it's even more fundamental than that. We don't even have a universally accepted definition of intelligence. The only universally agreed on artifact of intelligence that we have is the human brain. And we still don'
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by shahbaby 11mo ago
> For example, what you don't want to do is NOT take amphetamines at testing if you had used them to study; Hard disagree there. If you get any anxiety during the test it's better to take it only while studying.
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by shahbaby 11mo ago
I tried this but it did not go well. The problem is that being unemployed and having no income puts you in a bad position to build something of value. Another problem is that job hunting is very time intensive, even more so than a full time
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by shahbaby 1y ago
AI will make you fast in the beginning but after a certain point your lack of understanding will catch up to you. If you feel pressure to always skip understanding then that seems like an organization problem.
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by shahbaby 1y ago
I started getting into game development which unexpectedly reduced the amount of time I wasted on youtube.

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