Unnecessarily doing extra work is not a virtue. Leave the Catholicism behind. I'm not using AI to replace proglem solving, thinking through and understanding the problem and then figuring out how to fix it, the systems thinking, design, architecture, algorithms, domain modelling, etc. I'm just not dealing with the BS "what was the order of the arguments this function took again? What's the library API for this?" stuff and writing boiler-plate or managing typechecker-driven refactors. The question is whether what you make is any good, and I still spend a lot of time making sure what I built made sense, is well factored and DRY, and is as elegant as I know how to make it. In fact, with the increased leverage LLMs give me, I've found myself spending more time on code quality and testing than I used to!
Stack trace collection is optional. If you actually hit a performance problem on a checked exception path you just override the stack trace collection not to happen. I do this in most of my projects that use checked exceptions as domain errors. Only once you have to panic, i.e wrap in an unchecked exception, stack trace collection happens.
Exceptions are cheap. Stack trace collection is the expensive part; if you make use of checked exceptions for domain errors you can just turn that off if you hit a performance problem.
It's anecdotal, I'm not asserting anything about how stock prices work. I merely pointing out something I didn't expect. Jesus I hate this forum sometimes.
The problem is that comparing two stock prices is meaningless; it's comparing apples to oranges. People are commenting that your conclusion (Ubisoft's stock price is less than our stock price, which dropped 75%, so Ubisoft has a problem) is a logical fallacy. This is the finance equivalent of a divide by zero error.
Jesus Christ it’s not a logical fallacy. Ubisoft does have a problem. They’ve lost 95% of their value. Outside of that I was merely commenting about my surprisal that a house hold name like Ubisoft was doing so poorly. Stop taking things in such absolutes.
It's not that people are taking things in absolutes. I think everyone agrees that stock price siding so far is a very bad sign.
You specifically made a direct comparison between your employer's and Ubisoft's absolute stock prices. That's what people are calling out, and for good reason. It is fundamentally not possible to compare stock price directly like that. Literally meaningless.
Stock prices as lone numbers are completely arbitrary. If a company feels that the price per unit is too high or too low they can even do merges and splits, ie multiplying the number of shares by an arbitrary value of their choosing.
he's angry at being misunderstood and is acting rude, but your comment is right on. It's such a commonplace thing to say (even if they don't really mean it literally) that I wish there was a really quick and clear way to reply. mainstream news, for instance always summarizes market moves in number of points on the DOW which is the same sort of thing if you don't all know the denominator.
maybe saying it's comparing +1 Euros to +5 Yen? of losing 1 tablespoon vs 2 teaspoons? or 5/10 to 1/2?
No I’m fucking not. I have clarified what I meant and you still have disregarded that. Please stop. Learn to evolve a conversation past the first post and leave me alone.
AGAIN: I was merely commenting my surprisal that a household name like Ubisoft was doing so poorly.
we're all here to communicate with each other - please hear us : you are using this in a way that is preventing your meaning from getting through because of a technical (the best!) error. we're gently trying to correct the misunderstanding (if that's what it is), or give you the feedback that you're not making sense otherwise.
There is no misunderstanding. I know the difference and have clarified that. I’ve clarified that I was merely surprised at how bad Ubisoft is doing — which they are.
You’re not reading the words I’m typing. Please stop trying to communicate with me.
Thanks :) I've been applying but it feels like yeeting my resume into the void. I'm also staff level and those roles are fewer to come by. I suspect that I will have to settle for a higher paying senior role, which may not be that bad.
I will say it for you though. If the calculator doesn't work or shows wrong results, then it is shit. I don't care if made with AI, humans or monkeys.
`Professional Calculators
Free, accurate, and easy-to-use tools for finance, math, and everyday calculations.`
So yeah, fuck this. Website looks 99% similar to the many shadcn themes available, has some errors in the calculations and then have a new account propagating 'ohhh look at me, I did all this with Claude/GPT/my aunt's raspberry pi running X, AI is amazing. All Hail AI.` is tiring and I'm just going to assume it is either paid marketing, people invested directly or indirectly in these companies or just sycophant idiots.
Also, anyone knows an extension or website where I can just filter submissions if they include AI or LLM or Clause in the title? Getting really tired of this shit.
What are you looking of shifting to? I’ve thought about an actual engineering discipline, but going through the schooling just seems too big of a thing.
Honestly? I'm not sure. I've looked at a few different paths.
I'm lucky to live in the Research Triangle area of the United States, so I've got really good options for schooling around me. My sister graduated with an aerospace engineering degree, and I've always been interested in space. Thinking about hardware as a possible path as well.
But in a complete twist, I've also always wanted to be an educator. A high school math or computer science teacher would fit me well. I remember a lot of my male teachers very fondly in terms of the impact they had on my life, and I'd love to give that back.
Just wanted to say I've felt very similarly recently. Honestly feels like we need a place to continue to discuss post-tech career paths for mid-career engineers.
I've been considering becoming an electrician but it is also quite a career shift.
Restarting a career seems so hard. Looking at engineering programs and having to spend thousands just doesn’t sit well. I suspect many of us will just keep doing “software” until they won’t pay us anymore.
All tech work has been in service of laying off workers. Phone operator, bank teller, longshoreman (outside the US) all used to be serviceable careers to earn a lifetime.
Shallow learning, overall laziness imprinted on the character over time. For kids and juniors starting the field they are much worse. None of the stuff I've learned over past 20 years was handed over to me in this easy fashion.
Overconfident and over-positive shallow posts just hurt the overall discussion. Also some layer of arrogance - a typical 'if you struggle to get any significant value out of this new toy you must be doing something horribly wrong, look at us all being 100x productive!' which is never ever followed by some detailed explanation of their stack and other details.
Clearly the tools have serious issues since most users struggle to get any sustained reliable added value, and everybody keeps hoping things will improve later due to it being able to write lengthy prose on various topics or fill our government documents.
None of the stuff I've learned over past 20 years was handed over to me in this easy fashion.
Yeah, kids these days just include stdio.h and start printing stuff, no understanding of register allocation or hardware addressing modes. 20 years from now nobody will know how to write an operating system.
Also some layer of arrogance
As compared to "if you claim AI is useful for you, you're either delusional or a shill"? The difference is that the pro-AI side can accept that any specific case it may not work well, while detractors have to make the increasingly untenable argument that it's never useful.
