ugg i find out tomorrow if i still have a job actually lol, my contract's ending so my company has to decide if they have the budget to keep me on a while longer or if they wanna let me go

>>733968
thx <3
idk its scary/stressful but im also hopeful

my bosses seem to have been impressed w my skills so I have to believe that even if they don't keep me on they'll be able to recommend me to someone else

this is actually my first real job so rn experience is the thing i lack the most

>>733988
tbh working this job has been chill af, its been kinda a confidence boosting experience to realize that i can like work with react and stuff in a production environment and its just like, fine i already know how to use the tools and stuff

ya thats why i rly feel like i can cut it as a developer, i just need ppl willing to hire someone with not much work experience

ya exactly lol

oh wow i actually know how to use git and stuff

idk i always assumed that like, actual professional coders would know so much more abt all the software dev tools and workflows and stuff and i've definitely learned some things from my coworkers but I was honestly surprised to find just how easy it was to get settled into the role

whole software industry is kinda fucked rn tho, supposedly things are getting better vs like a year or two ago but hardly any entry level jobs and the ones that are there have ppl with like 5-10 years experience competing for them

honestly its so stupid and short sighted of the tech companies, like hello morons u know ur supposed to invest in the next generation of coders right???

>>734023
lol right, fucking suits and ties are in for a rude awakening

i was bullish on AI even a few months ago but the new training paradigms that ppl thought were gonna make these models even smarter have not rly been yielding results

im not convinced a truly reliable coding agent is even on the horizon

>>734034
right, genuinely starting to believe its a bubble

>>734038
idk im not convinced lol
My understanding of the current state of affairs is this:
Large language models currently need vast data sets in order to be trained. That's an issue because we can only gather up so much data. So the tech companies thought theyd solve this by taking a trained model and then putting it in these automated training environments, think like playing a game against itself, having conversations with itself etc etc and it was thought that doing that would automate the training process, allowing the performance of the models to scale with compute

but what recent (like in the last few months) papers have been finding is that these automated reinforcement learning schemes don't actually appear to be teaching the models new skills- they just reinforce the ones the models already have, the ones obtained from the original training data set

which means we're basically right back to square one- dependent on large data sets that can only get so big and we are already seeing diminishing returns from

>>734049
sure that makes sense, that has largely been my experience working with these models as well

under the right guidance (prompt engineering) they can do useful things but they require a lot of hand holding and their outputs are seldom if ever error-free

>>734058
absolutely, and one thing that's become increasingly obvious to me esp as my coworkers who know less abt LLMs have tried to use these systems is that it's not as simple as plug and play either, there are performance considerations that are not obvious

for example, the guys at my company thought they could just run an ollama instance in google cloud and spin up whatever model they wanted on it- the problem is that the performance of large language models is constrained by the amount of VRAM on the system, because the entire context window of the model has to fit into VRAM, so basically while they were able to set up this system, the LLM was being dumb and they didn't understand why and it was because it wasn't being given the computational resources to "think" for extended durations

>>734067
yikes

or u have to pay for the web api's lol

those aren't terribly expensive, fortunately but ofc if data privacy is a concern then that approach has issues

i did some rough math and i think to run like a google cloud instance with 80 gigs of VRAM which is like the minimum recommended for models like deepseek R1 would cost something like $80 per hour

oh ya i mean just large models in general on the order of like 80B parameters they usually want u to have like 80-100 gigs of vram lol

>>734083
kinda real lol

i say this as someone who loves AI, i think most of the uses that have come out of this stuff are garbage

the only, like literally the *only* use of AI that i am excited about is automated information retrieval/summarization

ya exactly, like the fact that an LLM lets us basically query a database of yknow written documents using natural language is rly rly cool

if u ask me that's their most revolutionary feature. in their current state, these AI models lack creativity so trying to use them for creative tasks is stupid IMO. we should be using them to augment our information retrieval flows

>>734101
LITERALLY, like WHAT is the use of image/video generation models except to spread disinformation, commit fraud and make porn of ppl without their consent

god sometimes i wonder why even get into tech when the relationship between tech and capital is so nauseating

>>734112
ya...

i have a friend whos a UK sw dev tranny, well she was but she got her surgeries and stuff and then she quit to become a firefighter cuz she hated working in tech

i doubt id ever have the principles to do that lol

>>734123
nah i feel that lol computers are basically the only thing i have going for me like hell i'm gonna give those up, just wish there weren't so many skinwalkers and posers in tech nowadays

fucking creeps who think studying CS is their ticket to a six figure salary and dont gaf abt anything else

i had pizza yesterday >< cant treat myself every day

>>734160
omg lol i love this

ough youtube is so boring nowadays
i dont wanna watch bodycam footage!!!

ya ive started to do that too, shoulda thought of it sooner

ya exactly, sometimes i get recommended a fun coding vid but even those are rare

i have lol

that stuff is crazy, diving into the guts of windows.. i could never

my creepy twin bro who hates me once wrote a windows screensaver and had to learn abt all that shit

ya hes big into CRTs so he still uses them lol

thats cool c: my bro has legit like half a dozen of them crowding his apartment, three on his desk alone

once played elden ring on his crt it was kinda cool, glowing colors look rly cool on crt's

[YouTube]
tf did youtube just recommend me
1k views

>>734206
omg love this one

aww

man yknow what i miss abt LA tho, spicy food

can't get much good spicy food in northern finland lol

fish tacos used to be my favvvv

::eepy yaoi

aw

sometimes i h8 being bisexual

hm not rly, im either not thinking abt it or im thinking why cant i be gay or straight

i like men and dominant women ><

same Dx i get so lonely

never had a proper relationship

i dated another tranny for like a month as a baby trans and that was it

>>734243
rip

>>734251
that's debatable lol it was p shit

real, glad i spent the first time on someone who sucks

dont tell me that lmao

all my ex ever did was like, take my money, refuse to use enough lube and

eugh

lol

other shit that i am too ashamed to say

mm ya this reminds me a lot of how i felt when i dropped outta grad school

who life was on rails up to that point and then all of a sudden its like wtf do i do now ive fallen off the path

:< im sorry fren

honestly, truly u never know what the future holds... a year ago i was driving for uber eats and thinking abt jumping off a bridge lol and now i at least have a job and a better place to stay

tru

humans work too hard

gotta drive up that shareholder value!

ya

been there lolo

lmao hell naw, i was doing this abt three years ago and nobody noticed when i stopped going to class

sorry fren :< its hard i know

i feel that

sometimes all it takes is to get outta the place ur in

that sounds like a good plan #hug

aw

#hug

wtf

>>734308
#hug

o i get it

lol i once had to take a class abt the history of rock and roll

it ended up being a doozy, i had to write a few pages a week on rock and roll documentaries and then in the last week of classes when i was dealing with finals for all my other classes the guy wanted like a 4000 word essay going over 20 of the documentaries we watched in class as well as going into special detail about brian wilson and the beach boys bc the prof was obsessed w the beach boys

ya this guy sounds badass

WOULDNT IT BE NICE IF WE WERE YOUNGER THEN WE WOULDNT HAVE TO WAIT SO LONG

.play god only knows

this is my fav beach boys song

i wish i used the internet before 2016

i was so wilfully sheltered, i just spent all my off time in minecraft between the ages of like 11 to 18 lol

woa cool

i wish i was a cool hackermans

i wish kurt kobain was my dad

aww

why is it that boomer coders either turn out funny or they turn out like jeff bezos

my dad is a boomer coder and in addition to being a pos he's the biggest simp for capitalism i have ever met

ya lol

woa cool