You couldn't get cable internet in Houston?

I don't think he's saying don't have social media and replace it with a website but also have a basic website in addition to what ever else your doing

Then it's twice the work. For a mom-and-pop restaurant, putting food on the table (pun intended) probably already cost them 24 hours a day.

What handles making sprite sheets?

Gemini with some tricks for grid alignment and background removal. Not perfect yet, planning to switch to a video model for animated sprites.

Are they not animated?

They are for 2D — classic animated sprite sheets with numbered frames. 3D models are static for now. The video model switch should help with smoother 2D animation between frames.

> but do not have a gauge for what kinds of problems make for an appropriately difficult assignment in the modern era.

I have no idea what is complicated anymore. You can build a 3d game engine in a weekend or two with Ai.

For now yeah becasue you need to direct the Ai correctly still. Either with planning or you need to fix it's mistakes and identify when it did something correct but not optimally.

Can Linux differentiate that different dimms are different? Or does it see it all as one big memory space still?

Yes, Linux was aware of the difference via ACPI tables.

Unemployed people, what are you doing?

I was laid off from Atlassian this/last week. Since then I've been playing Satisfactory for 12 hours a day.

Crazy thing is, I delivered optimizations that saved 1m USD over the last 12 months, with another optimization in-flight that would save another 1m USD. I thought that was enough to protect me from layoffs/PIPs - I guess no one was counting.

AI is just an excuse for layoffs which IMO CEOs are trying to use to recover share prices from the SaaS-pocalypse. Looks like layoffs aren't hitting the same for stock prices as they once were.

It's a fools errand to ever believe in job security. Even if you're absolutely right on your importance, management can always remain stupid longer than you can remain employed.

It truly feels like a farce. I've survived a few rounds of layoffs and I've seen both shitty engineers and our best engineers let go. I assume our good ones are too expensive? It seems like HR just does some spreadsheet magic to grab people without any regard for performance or title.

Your problem was that you tried doing work. What you want to do as an employee is make it so they can’t fire you not that you are actually useful.

How would you advise making it so they can't fire you?

Not OP, and nothing makes it impossible, but from my experience in big companies, being visible is way more useful than being productive.

I got further faster by just answering emails right away than by churning out code. I got constant kudos, which got me promoted, and invited to more meetings, which led to less actual work. All because I just started replying to emails sent to our group. In retrospect it feels pretty perverse.

In lean companies and startups...perhaps not so much.

Having worked in a very large company for the past two decades now, one of the best career advices I ever got is about how you measure if you are a „good employee“.

It is very simple: you are a good employee if your boss(es) think you are.

That’s it. Nothing else matters in terms of career advancement or retainment.

Being ghosted, hazed, and otherwise abused. No one is hiring at restaurants, etc either. A recession has probably started.

Interviewing 4 times just to get ghosted.

Trying to build my own thing.

So just iterate on it? Your complaint is that the model isn't one shotting the problem and reading your mind about style. It's like any coding workflow, make it work, then make it nice.

No, I never expect AI to one-shot (if I see such a miracle, it's usually because I needed a one-liner or something really simple and well documented, which I can also write on the whiteboard from memory).

Try iterating over well known APIs where the response payloads are already gigantic JSONs, there are multiple ways to get certain data and they are all inconsistent and Claude spits out function after function, laying waste to your codebase. I found no amount of style guideline documents to resolve this issue.

I'd rather read the documentation myself and write the code by hand rather than reviewing for the umpteenth time when Claude splits these new functions between e.g. __init__.py and main.py and god knows where, mixing business logic with plumbing and transport layers as an art form. God it was atrocious during the first few months of FastMCP.

Your always reviewing code though. Either a team mates pr or maybe your own code in 3 months, or some legacy thing.

Human code is still easier to review. Also, I program 80% of the time and review PRs 20% of the time. With AI, that becomes: I review 80% of the time, and write markdown and wait 20% of the time.