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Zaofy commented on A coder considers the waning days of the craft newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/jsomers

clnq · 2 years ago

I’ve never found GPT-4 capable of producing a useful solution in my niche of engineering.

When I’m stumped, it’s usually on a complex and very multi-faceted problem where the full scope doesn’t fit into the human brain very well. And for these problems, GPT will produce some borderline unworkable solutions. It’s like a jack of all trades and master of none in code. It’s knowledge seems a mile wide and an inch deep.

Granted, it could be different for junior to mid programmers.

Zaofy · 2 years ago

Same here. I'm not a developer. I do engineering and architecture in IAM. I've tested out GPT-4 and it's good for general advice or problem solving. But it can't know the intricascies of the company I work at with all our baggage, legacy systems and us humans sometimes just being straight up illogical and inefficient with what we want.

So my usage has mostly been for it to play a more advanced rubber duck to bounce ideas and concepts off of and to do some of the more tedious scripting work (that I still have to double check thoroughly).

At some point GPT and other LLMs might be able to replace what I do in large parts. But that's still a while off.

Zaofy commented on Do you make over 20k a month? old.reddit.com/r/Entrepre... · Posted by u/carouselhero

checkyoursudo · 2 years ago

I have made around 25k/month (gross) and 0/month (or even negative, if you count having to use savings to live). The reality for me has been that the amount of stress that comes with making 25k is not entirely dissimilar to the amount of stress that comes from making 0, albeit from different causes. I am much happier where I currently am, somewhere in the middle. I make about average for where I live, and that is perfectly fine with me.

Zaofy · 2 years ago

Pretty much this. Whilst I've never earned more than 20k a month I've a couple of friends who do. And they're fairly miserable despite the money. Same with my friends who earn far less than me or even nothing. It's just a different kind of miserable.

I much prefer what I do now. A job that is sometimes stressful, that I even outright hate on rare occasions, but that is on average fulfilling and fun and lets me go to bed with a clear conscience. All while I still have enough free time and left over money to actually spend the money I earn on things I enjoy.

Now if someone gave me a choice between earning 20k a month or earning nothing a month, I'd still chose the former. I'd rather struggle with the mental issues and stress that come along with it than living in constant fear how I'd pay for my next meal...

But Ideally I'll have built up enough savings to retire early at some point and live off of the interest generated. Best of both worlds.

Zaofy commented on I was happy, sad, lost and lonely without a smartphone at the same time ruky.me/2023/09/26/i-was-... · Posted by u/rukshn

jiqiren · 2 years ago

I'd be at the Apple Store the following day buying a new iPhone. I don't understand all the romanticizing over having a break - F that. I got stuff to do and people to call.

Zaofy · 2 years ago

Same here. Even taking aside the things a smartphone are necessary for like 2FA, it's not like my life was massively different before it.

Instead of browsing the web on the phone screen I instead read a book or a newspaper on the train.

Instead of texting a friend that I'll be 20 minutes late because I missed my connection I instead had to hope that they'd still wait for me at the place we were supposed to meet.

Instead of checking google maps for directions I'd look at the maps hung around the cities or ask someone.

Now all of that might be because I'm an introvert, but I've been listening to music and reading books instead of interacting with strangers since forever. The smartphone just made it so I wouldn't have to lug around several books and a discman.

That said: I absolutely make the exception for work related stuff. There's a reason why I have a separate work and private phone, getting Teams notifications and other work related stuff during my time off can absolutely ruin my evening.

Zaofy commented on Mastercard ends Binance card partnership in latest blow to crypto giant cnbc.com/2023/08/25/maste... · Posted by u/gslin

iepathos · 2 years ago

A single bitcoin is currently valued over 25,000 USD and has shown to go up to over 60,000 USD. It has literally made tons of crypto million and billionaires. Ethereum has shown it's able to replace a lot of middleman banking with smart contracts but being turing complete is difficult to make secure. There are many profitable and successfully operating DAOs exclusively managed via smart contracts. Saying cryptocurrency space has failed to provide value is provably false.

Zaofy · 2 years ago

I'm happy for the couple of people that got tangible financial benefits out of it and that weren't already wealthy beforehand, but this isn't exactly a benefit for society as a whole. All the rest has simply failed to materialise in any meaningful way.

Zaofy commented on How to do the thing you've been avoiding jasonfeifer.beehiiv.com/p... · Posted by u/duck

wruza · 3 years ago

the more I have to do, the less I finish

It’s interesting that we know and appreciate that there will be more work tomorrow and next week, but when you see it in advance, it pushes you to the bed.

One thing that [somewhat] helps me with it is breaking down the next thing into a list of pretty trivial tasks on paper, while leaving the rest at where it came from. Makes you focus on what’s here and now. Out of sight, out of mind. Doesn’t work 100% but helps a little if I manage to forget the rest enough.

Zaofy · 3 years ago

There's a ton of different tips and everyone's different. In my case no amount of list making has ever really helped because I still got easily distracted, either by external factors ("Hey, could you have a quick look at this?") or by myself ("Fiddlesticks, I completely forgot that I wanted to do x an hour ago!" repeat ad nauseum)

The meds help me to actually stay focused on a single thing instead of every distraction completely throwing me off and not getting any work done at all because I'm doing 6 things at once and constantly starting them from beginning

Zaofy commented on How to do the thing you've been avoiding jasonfeifer.beehiiv.com/p... · Posted by u/duck

ulnarkressty · 3 years ago

Most of the time it's anxiety. You'd be surprised how easy it is to start doing something when you don't feel any kind of pressure. Getting rid of it is hard work though, sometimes even harder than doing the thing you're procrastinating about. This gives rise to some interesting cost/benefit discussions. Which only serve to increase the anxiety. Enjoy modern life!

Zaofy · 3 years ago

I'm reading this while having my mailbox open on my second screen containing various high priority issues that I should _really_ take care of. Ironically the more I have to do, the less I finish.

Luckiyl my adhd meds should kick in in about an hour making it much easier to focus on taking care of things.