The other day I have seen a developer calmly renaming a variable in his code. Manually. Like a psycho.
Not everyone is using AI for everything
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#512Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's fucked up. If those are your values, that's all well and good, but you can't expect someone else to make the same decision. Job interviews are a performance where you demonstrate you understand what professional expectations are and can abide by them. It's not dishonesty to not respond "I drink too much" when they ask "what's your biggest weakness?" just like it's not dishonesty to respond "can't complain" whe…
Having any kind of integrity is expensive, financially, emotionally and sometimes physically. Software development is not that high-stakes of a job anyway. There is always another interview. I got another one soon enough, where the employee AI policy fully aligned with mine, so telling the truth was an easy, pleasant experience. Imagine you are a pilot or doctor. Any kind of interview reply that doesn't fully align w…
This betrays quite a bit of ignorance about what the code created for certain companies is used to do.
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#513Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is totally incorrect. Germany is literally giving out housing for almost free. No, I'm not stupid or lying. And yes, it's true. It's just that this housing is not in Berlin.
"Built enough" may sound like the same thing as "giving out housing for almost free", but it isn't. Also, cheap temporary emergency housing for a sudden extra burst of refugees may be inappropriate for permanent occupancy, I believe this is an example, it's certainly containerised/temporary *something*: https://maps.app.goo.gl/HUyQS6Sc1w1Y8GUH6?g_st=ic That said, an idea has come to mind: UK and Italy have had scheme…
I'm talking about places like Eisenhüttenstadt where you can find a regular apartment for rent for 300€ a month. Market rate.
And yes, you can find even cheaper apartments.
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#514At least using AI doesn't cause massive suffering of sentient beings like meat consumption does. I find it funny we talk so much about whether or not Claude's feelings are hurt and whether it has emotions, when we treat animals with real feelings, emotions, parental bonds, and personalities so badly.
Re: Not everyone is using AI for everything
#515On the post-grad job hunt right now - I note that most employers will ask in a technical interview or whiteboard interview "how are you using LLMs?" It's tough to answer because you want to hedge for both an AI enthused employer and an AI hesitant employer with limited information about who they are and how they personally use these products. I've been responding with a sort of long winded answer about how 'there is…
I've personally started to dislike agentic coding, not because of the LLM side of things, but rather, because the non-LLM workflow itself is stupid.
The UI/UX is built around one-shotting the code as a single fully baked unit. There should be intense competition around having the best code review tools to adjust the fine details and yet everything is devolving into a text prompt, even CAD tools where being off by a millimeter or less can make a part completely useless even if it is 99% of the way there.
All of these tools are assuming that the LLM already achieved superhuman AGI capable of reading your mind while making zero mistakes.
Re: Not everyone is using AI for everything
#516On the post-grad job hunt right now - I note that most employers will ask in a technical interview or whiteboard interview "how are you using LLMs?" It's tough to answer because you want to hedge for both an AI enthused employer and an AI hesitant employer with limited information about who they are and how they personally use these products. I've been responding with a sort of long winded answer about how 'there is…
Thinking about a similar question, I've tried to come up with this framework:
https://assistedeverything.substack.com/p/ai-bowtie
Maybe it helps in your interviews.
I think you will find that both AI-pilled as well as AI-sceptics will actually agree on that approach, because it rejects the question of "how much" and rather reflects it towards the "when to use AI". Depending on who it is, you can then talk more about the beginning, end or center piece of it.
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Privilege, yes. You had the privilege to dedicate time to learning skills required, obtaining an education, probably bias during hiring processes, etc. Even though your position might be the result of effort on your part, you do have to acknowledge that you’re privileged to be in a position to expend that effort on what you want, instead of something else, like finding fresh water daily, or whatever. It’s not sheer w…
How far could you reduce this down? Do you only clap for malnourished Ethiopian babies that can't find waterthat grow up into full silicon Valley software engineers?
To the people subscribing to "privilege theory", all positive differences are privilege and all negative differences are oppression, no matter if earned or self inflicted.
That's the logical conclusion you're forced to arrive at if you take these people seriously.
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#518Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's pretty easy as an interviewer to spot when a candidate is hedging on a question, and it's the kind of thing that might get discussed in the post-interview debrief. "Wouldn't give a straight answer on question X" isn't an instant no-hire, but it's not a positive signal.
I just interviewed a guy and all three interviewers asked him functionally the same question. He hedged 3 times and we just wanted an honest answer...
And he probably just wants to pay his bills so he can continue to survive.
Re: Not everyone is using AI for everything
#519Earlier quoted context omitted.
The real best case scenario is using LLMs to help build deterministic systems. Instead of asking an LLM to do some task that you know will be repeated, instead ask the LLM to build a program (Python script or whatever) to do the task.
Making systems fully deterministic ignores the entire purpose of having agents involved. IMHO the best of both worlds option is agents working with deterministic CLIs. Where the agent does the reasoning (and text generation) but uses CLIs to carry out all of the actions (issuing refunds, unblocking accounts, or whatever). It's possible to get very reliable and consistent work out of agents when they're using well wri…
>Making systems fully deterministic ignores the entire purpose of having agents involved.
That sounds backwards to me. I hope that most places don't see "having agents involved" as the ultimate purpose, but will use agents where it makes sense, i.e. when deterministic systems fall short.
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Hasan Piker's political project polls extremely high (universal healthcare, abortion access, and more), so actually you could understand American voter politics by reading Hasan's comments amusingly enough.
He's also banned from the UK for being a terrorist, so make of that what you will.
"Being a terrorist", really?
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/01/uk/hasan-piker-uk-entry-b...