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New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Do I Stop Learning Coding? DSA?"

coolThingsFirst — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 03:28:49 +0000

Yes as a hobby but knowledge work will be dead. Even meta is laying off further 10% of its workforce. Software engineering as a career path is just done.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "90% of CEOs Say AI Changed Nothing. The Other 10% Have a PR Team"

coolThingsFirst — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:04:45 +0000

For the seniors, when you review AI code what percentage would you say it takes you of the time that you'd have needed to write it from scratch?

Just curious, i've been thinking about this a lot.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

coolThingsFirst — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:57:28 +0000

Yeah also pretty sure this product has tons of competitors like exaclidraw.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

coolThingsFirst — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:22:37 +0000

For his GPU he needs to have special permission from the ISP for incoming connections correct?

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Now is the best time to write code by hand"

coolThingsFirst — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:54:12 +0000

code written by grass fed developer, grade A.

Codyu.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

coolThingsFirst — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:49:13 +0000

Can someone more enlightened in this area explain how this is used?

Is MCP for in-house LLMs or can it work with ChatGPT as well? As far as I know it's a server with small self-contained task scripts. But don't get how the coordination works and how it's used.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

coolThingsFirst — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:01:35 +0000

I get very bad results for frontend. The results look boring and obviously made by ai.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

coolThingsFirst — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:46:32 +0000

Why though? Iranian missiles aren’t new and they seem to be the only threat to the aircraft carriers.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]"

coolThingsFirst — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:11:54 +0000

Is this lang for web dev?

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "AI isn't killing jobs, it's 'unbundling' them into lower-paid chunks"

coolThingsFirst — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:55:04 +0000

It is different because writing a spec to tell AI what it wants is much easier than writing React/JS. The market reflects that.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

coolThingsFirst — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 02:17:08 +0000

Sanctions were also an act of aggression. Iran could ask for fees for US ships to make up for their losses due to sanctions.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

coolThingsFirst — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:37:14 +0000

Why didnt Iran use this earlier to get rich?

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

coolThingsFirst — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:36:55 +0000

Exactly. AI helps you do things faster which when done have no economic value whatsoever.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "The Impact of AI on Game Dev Jobs. Open to Work Crisis"

coolThingsFirst — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:17:32 +0000

They are implying the higher classes will cull the rest.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

coolThingsFirst — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:24:26 +0000

I can't even get an interview.

The most recent one few months ago and I passed it with great score, top 5% of candidates etc but that wasn't enough to get me hired.

Terrible market, i'm at my wits end to even how to approach this.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017)"

coolThingsFirst — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 02:04:07 +0000

Did you guys notice something?

This is from 2017 and it’s a throwback there no longer are such articles, now it’s all about AI.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Microgpt"

coolThingsFirst — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:44:27 +0000

Incredibly fascinating. One thing is that it seems still very conceptual. What id be curious about how good of a micro llm we can train say with 12 hours of training on macbook.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Layoffs at Block"

coolThingsFirst — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:55:05 +0000

Yeah. We are coping. Just today, I had a simple bug where the data received was throwing undefined because it was in 2 alternate formats.

I showed ChatGPT(free-tier) the API response and the part of the code reading it, and it fixed it in 5 seconds. Would've been pretty short either way less than 30-40 mins but it's very good for simple tasks like these. The solution is just correct.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout"

coolThingsFirst — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:51:56 +0000

Yes, this is what I have noticed as well.

Willpower is limited. Hard workout means intense cognitive effort is much harder to pull off.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals"

coolThingsFirst — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:46:20 +0000

Try this: https://mapjoy.app/, username and pass johnsmith.

All of JS with client side routing, blazing fast.

React is utterly amazing.