Eji1700's recent activity
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Comment on What are people using instead of VS Code? in ~comp
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Comment on I don’t know if my software engineering job will still exist in ten years in ~comp
Eji1700 Link ParentYeah i'm using this task as a benchmark for now and going to try some more complex/expensive models to see what i get out of it and how much it costs. I'm still hard pressed to see this...Yeah i'm using this task as a benchmark for now and going to try some more complex/expensive models to see what i get out of it and how much it costs.
I'm still hard pressed to see this eliminating a ton of work through. Driving down pay surely as the barrier to entry just got lower but I'm not sold this is going to magically erase entire departments. The main way i see that happening is if companies decide that having a "AI friendly" environment is more important, but I can't see how that will cost less than having people given the obscene behind the scenes costs being carried right now.
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Comment on Survey reveals almost 50% of California teachers may quit teaching soon in ~life
Eji1700 Link ParentThe parents are going to court. I have witnessed it. The claim damages far beyond reasonableThe parents are going to court. I have witnessed it. The claim damages far beyond reasonable
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Eji1700 LinkMarathon 2026 Love it. It’s smack dab in the right spot for me. Resources, gunplay, TTK, vibe, etc. I’m worried bungie will screw it up but so far I’m happy. The battle pass is dumb but it’s also...Marathon 2026
Love it. It’s smack dab in the right spot for me. Resources, gunplay, TTK, vibe, etc. I’m worried bungie will screw it up but so far I’m happy. The battle pass is dumb but it’s also just cosmetic.
Actual gameplay is great. Solo/teams/randoms/rook I love it
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Comment on Survey reveals almost 50% of California teachers may quit teaching soon in ~life
Eji1700 Link ParentThe admin that won’t back up teachers isn’t going to be in yearly small claims court suits over supposed damage they may or may not have caused.The admin that won’t back up teachers isn’t going to be in yearly small claims court suits over supposed damage they may or may not have caused.
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Comment on Survey reveals almost 50% of California teachers may quit teaching soon in ~life
Eji1700 Link ParentIt’s a liability thing. You ban phones. The kids show up with them anyways. What do you do? If you take them and the kids claim damage in any way, congrats, the school is more in a screaming match...It’s a liability thing. You ban phones. The kids show up with them anyways. What do you do?
If you take them and the kids claim damage in any way, congrats, the school is more in a screaming match with a parent over a potentially $1000 device.
If you tell them to just put it away, well that’s the current status quo and it’s not really working due to the rest of the paragraph (toothless teachers because admin sides with parents)
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Comment on I don’t know if my software engineering job will still exist in ten years in ~comp
Eji1700 Link ParentThat’s partly why I started with a very simple and known problem. To a human “oh okay swap this with that” is pretty easy but the AI just face plantsThat’s partly why I started with a very simple and known problem. To a human “oh okay swap this with that” is pretty easy but the AI just face plants
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Comment on I don’t know if my software engineering job will still exist in ten years in ~comp
Eji1700 LinkOut of curiosity I decided to put free model cline to the test. I code in F#, a non standard language, and have wanted to try sse datastar, a non standard library (but using more and more standard...Out of curiosity I decided to put free model cline to the test.
I code in F#, a non standard language, and have wanted to try sse datastar, a non standard library (but using more and more standard HTMX style stuff).
I basically tried "vibe coding" it from scratch to see how it did with various prompts like "build a snake game using F# and datastar" after making a basic F# console template.
Several hours and 2 totally different programs later, i've had minimal success. There's a LOT of going in loops, walking off cliffs, and the code that started clean devolved quickly. Eventually Cline itself crashed and I called it there. I did of course do iterative prompts, and it CAN be very impressive when it gets it right or solves its own issues, but i also watched it push identical code 5 times before I went in and manually fixed it's capitalization error.
My general thoughts after testing (again):
- Obviously, if this was all AI could do it might be an ok starting tool, but it's hardly threatening.
- Also obviously "Use a non standard language and a non standard library" is probably a worst case scenario for AI, but I did ask it to do a VERY standard thing (give me a working snake game). Asking for the same output with something more standard I'm sure would work.
- Using the free cline model (i forget which one) is much weaker than other models available.
So the question becomes "is it realistic to stop using tooling that AI isn't already good at and just stick to tooling that it's well trained on" and I thin the answer is still "no not really".
The issue is on several levels.
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Novel solutions are game changers. I get that letting lower skilled and thus lower paid workers bash out your results could be useful, but a lot of the big players are big BECAUSE they found some tech stack that helped them change the game or punch above their weight. This could be useful for things like "make me a website so I can sell my things" but that's already kind of a thing with templates/services/tools/abstractions.
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"Free" is not Free. We're still in the "get em hooked" phase of AI and even then this shit is EXPENSIVE. Companies hate having expensive devs on staff, especially when they feel like they're "wasting time", but i'm not sold that the math is going to work out on AI replacing them especially when it can so easily blow through cycles. Any company forcing AI beyond what's reasonable is probably going to see a higher IT spend. They might be okay with that if they're the kind that panics at payroll but doesn't care about department budgets though. And that's right now while all these companies aren't even profitable.
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Personally, most of my job these days is about communication between departments and then working from there. The coding is an important step, but you probably still need someone like me to compile everything into something sane. I don't see many of the people I help actually using these tools themselves to get the proper output, especially since I doubt they'll notice when the AI shanks them in the back and starts dumping out garbage.
Honestly this all reminds me of photoshop. It undoubtedly has changed the game for images time and time again, but you still need the right people using the tools. Few people complain that you can do color correction easier now, but at the same time this doesn't strike me as at the point that a random consumer will pay the extreme costs to be able to do so.
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Comment on I don’t know if my software engineering job will still exist in ten years in ~comp
Eji1700 Link ParentBecause people seem to think these things are magic reasoning boxes and they just aren't. It's not going to scale linearly, there's a reason a ton of progress was made early and the more recent...Why do you think LLMs wouldn't be able to do exactly that in a couple of years?
Because people seem to think these things are magic reasoning boxes and they just aren't. It's not going to scale linearly, there's a reason a ton of progress was made early and the more recent benchmarks are mostly about how people use the tools rather than massive changes.
They ARE powerful and it will shift what skills matter in the industry, but time and time again tech shows that it's burst not consistent.
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Comment on US Pentagon leverages AI in Iran strikes amid feud with Anthropic in ~society
Eji1700 Link ParentYeah it's been a frustrating marketing problem in my world because you have standard algorithms for things like trend behavior (peak times/dips/identifying outliers) which all got repackaged as...Yeah it's been a frustrating marketing problem in my world because you have standard algorithms for things like trend behavior (peak times/dips/identifying outliers) which all got repackaged as AI! and marked up.
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Comment on US Pentagon leverages AI in Iran strikes amid feud with Anthropic in ~society
Eji1700 Link ParentBecause to the average street person these days its not. Someone already provided a definition of the difference between AI and algo (deterministic), which Facial recognition is. The entire...Facial recognition has been around for years. but that doesn't mean it's somehow not been AI that whole time.
Because to the average street person these days its not. Someone already provided a definition of the difference between AI and algo (deterministic), which Facial recognition is. The entire problem is AI is a very ill defined term. LLM is a very clearly defined term.
So long as we package these movements and decisions under something as vague as "AI" they are mostly useless. IF you want to say "no weapons that use facial recognition" that's fine, and a hell of a lot more useful than "no AI" which has always been vague.
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Comment on US Pentagon leverages AI in Iran strikes amid feud with Anthropic in ~society
Eji1700 Link ParentI do not. You can spin one up in a home lab right now with the right (if now stupidly expensive) equipment and do it. The question is where the tradeoffs lie in doing so.There are parameters that can make them more predictable, but these do not come close to actually making them deterministic in any practical sense of the word (Eji more or less admits this in his comment while trying to claim they are deterministic).
I do not. You can spin one up in a home lab right now with the right (if now stupidly expensive) equipment and do it. The question is where the tradeoffs lie in doing so.
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Comment on US Pentagon leverages AI in Iran strikes amid feud with Anthropic in ~society
Eji1700 Link ParentThey fundamentally are although there’a a few reasons your average one behaves as you have seen (temp needs to be 0 and there can still be random factors with selecting tokens or in some cases...They fundamentally are although there’a a few reasons your average one behaves as you have seen (temp needs to be 0 and there can still be random factors with selecting tokens or in some cases floating point math plus race conditions.).
It would not be hard to make it deterministic if you needed to although you might get slightly less accurate output.
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Comment on I need to talk to someone with social mobility experience, and I'm out of ideas in ~health.mental
Eji1700 Link ParentYeahhhhh that matches my government experience/knowledge. Just to clarify can you not find an entry/exit into the private sector or don’t want to or something else? Generally you can exit gov into...Yeahhhhh that matches my government experience/knowledge. Just to clarify can you not find an entry/exit into the private sector or don’t want to or something else?
Generally you can exit gov into private just at a trade off of benefits for pay.
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Comment on I need to talk to someone with social mobility experience, and I'm out of ideas in ~health.mental
Eji1700 Link ParentI think this kind of raise has become the outlier. I know many people, skills regardless, who are lucky to get COLA and often get less. Point being that if you're getting less or near inflation...But if you don't have an advanced/in-demand skill set you're likely better off getting regular cost of living raises (or whatever) as you work your career at the same big multinational company.
I think this kind of raise has become the outlier. I know many people, skills regardless, who are lucky to get COLA and often get less. Point being that if you're getting less or near inflation you might as well hop. You're much more likely to see 5%+ even for similar skills at a similar job just because they have to adjust pay with inflation to get new hires. Many companies have people who just started higher than people who've been there for years.
Oddly I also feel that on average UNI degrees have wound up paying more, but only because of the extreme end of people I know (lawyers/doctors), while if you bounce them out, uni degrees have basically paid less than similar things (teacher with a masters vs friends in labor fields, union or otherwise).
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Comment on I need to talk to someone with social mobility experience, and I'm out of ideas in ~health.mental
Eji1700 LinkI'll keep this short rather than wade into philosophical nonsense: The best way for the average person make more money is to keep job hopping. Once about every 2ish years. It's dumb, but it's the...I'll keep this short rather than wade into philosophical nonsense:
The best way for the average person make more money is to keep job hopping. Once about every 2ish years. It's dumb, but it's the economy we've built.Your current job will likely never value you at what you're worth after 2 years of skills growth and the new job will hire you to undercut the current person who's in the same position.
It really fucking sucks because it basically means your most valuable skills are networking, LinkedIn, resume building, and interviewing followed by whatever you need to do to not get fired for the 2 years you're somewhere.
Beyond that, yes knowing people helps. People hire people they know are good. This is sadly where the salesy bullshit of it all comes in, but if you can get to expo's and classes and the like of similar people that can also get you in front of the right people to break out at a higher level.
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And to add, yes, this means that your REAL job for the back 6 months/year of any job is gearing up/finding the next one. 100s if not 1000s of applications and wasting time on that plus interviews. It's not fun, it makes no sense, but it's basically the only real leverage you get. If you're lucky and made a good impression somewhere they can say "well hold on we'll match or elevate" but if you don't have something else lined up then you're not likely to see it.
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Comment on Sony pulls back from PlayStation games on PC in ~games
Eji1700 Link ParentConsoles will be more expensive. I see an outcome where home built PCs will not be possible. Sony, as a large company who has the ability to deal with corporations on B2B level, can get the parts...Consoles will be more expensive.
I see an outcome where home built PCs will not be possible.
Sony, as a large company who has the ability to deal with corporations on B2B level, can get the parts needed to build things.
Consumers, who do not have that option, may no longer have access to things like RAM, GPU's, and Hard Drives. That is the worst case scenario of this, and there's a very business oriented mind that would see that as a perfectly acceptable outcome.
In theory you'd expect competitors to enter the market to fill consumer demand at a lower price point, in practice some of these products are essentially supplied by cartel style oligopolies with extreme barriers. Capital, tech, and bureaucratic limitations make it very very hard to compete. We may very well enter a new norm where no one owns their personal computer and I don't see why people find that idea so strange given than "you'll own nothing and like it" has been the ongoing strategy for the last decade +
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To be clear these are the kinds of products where you can't just get together 10-20m in capital and start competing with a small workshop to serve your local market and expand from there. Moore's "law" finally ending means we're entering a chance for companies to set a new normal, and I think people don't understand how abnormal the current computer market is compared to most products, and how very much companies would be incentivized to change that (to the detriment of the consumer).
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Comment on US Pentagon leverages AI in Iran strikes amid feud with Anthropic in ~society
Eji1700 Link ParentAI can do this as well. or you can take the AI loop that generate the output and turn that into an algorithm, is that ok? I mean i'm not sure how that's too much different from current target...Personally, an algorithm is (at least somewhat) deterministic and can be tested and debugged.
AI can do this as well.
or you can take the AI loop that generate the output and turn that into an algorithm, is that ok?
Seemingly there isn't any parallel process checking that it's suggestions are actually optimal, or are even based in reality.
I mean i'm not sure how that's too much different from current target acquisition algo's for loitering munitions.
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Comment on Sony pulls back from PlayStation games on PC in ~games
Eji1700 Link ParentRAM may not be available to consumers in the next 3 years. If that actually happens (low odds but on the table), the only way to get ANY gaming device could become consoles because the fabs aren't...RAM may not be available to consumers in the next 3 years. If that actually happens (low odds but on the table), the only way to get ANY gaming device could become consoles because the fabs aren't selling to consumers.
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Comment on Sony pulls back from PlayStation games on PC in ~games
Eji1700 Link ParentMost of those games weren't developed and tested on computers with 8 gigs of ram. Their assets weren't made on computers with 8 gigs of ram. The development costs are going to go through the roof...Most of those games weren't developed and tested on computers with 8 gigs of ram. Their assets weren't made on computers with 8 gigs of ram. The development costs are going to go through the roof if things stay on track, and yes as development continues there will be a real question of what IS a reasonable spec, and it's very possible 8 gigs ALSO winds up becoming unaffordable as fabs are dedicating more and more production to industry not consumer.
Helix, although I default to code due to QoL stuff often and because F# support is lacking. I like the idea of it, but I also need to get used to using a terminal editor more, and it seems to be a mixed bag on too little vs too much intellisense.