searabbit

A lot of these engineers get stuck in sisyphian goals where if they just work a little bit harder for a little bit longer they’ll get the boulder over the hill and finally “make it.” It’s not about the money; it’s the promise of early retirement and justifying the sacrifices they’ve made to get to this point in their careers. But yeah, part of the sacrifice is their morals.

As someone somewhere between junior and intermediate developer, I will say vibe coding on my personal projects has accelerated my learning so much on the proper way to code things so much more than constantly bugging my seniors who don’t have time to properly review and critique my code (because surprise surprise! We’re understaffed). At least now I can ask Claude to explain its approach and fact check it myself, and the times I’ve had it run too loose, I’ve gotten practice debugging code I’m unfamiliar with since Claude eventually hits a point where it fucked something up and has no idea how to fix it. But obviously the caveat is you have to approach it as a learning tool not an automation tool.

I agree with this. They should’ve known. And at least chinese teams are coming out with new ways to make these models more efficient and smaller. They’re improving on the work they stole and then making it open source which I love to see.

Not a great argument when corporate and military espionage is like China’s expertise

Yeah this is not surprising because at the end of the day, the degree is a class signal. The upper class want a system where their kids don’t have to put in much work to benefit and that requires increasingly impossible barriers of entry for the lower classes. You having the balls to call the bluff worked out in your favor, and you’re definitely not the first to figure it out.

Some of these commenters are so naive. Loads of kids pay their way into Harvard and Yale, then party through them, easily get the degree (because learning and discipline is not the point, the point is the exclusivity and the network), and then get a job through their family or family’s connections where they don’t actually have to know anything to do it.

You know you can do both right now…go read a book on the internet under a tree. In fact, I recommend reading Brave New World specifically. It’ll be a good time (no sarcasm).