smartties (u/smartties)

smartties commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry

swalsh · 3 months ago

You can ask the llm to write code the way you think about it. I usually write a little spec document as my first prompt, and in there i'll add some rules on how I want code structured, seperated etc.

If you use cursor, cursorrules can be a good way of doing this.

smartties · 3 months ago

This still doesn't work for me. I have to actively think about the problem, find a solution, and write the code myself. Outsourcing these efforts makes my learning ineffective.

I will keep using LLMs for 1 week greenfield hobby projects that I don't plan to revisit. But no matter how good LLMs get, I will never use them in my dailyjob, otherwise, I risk losing touch with the codebase.

smartties commented on AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem newsletter.pragmaticengin... · Posted by u/iamflimflam1

jajko · 6 months ago

Well it is technically possible to spend 10 years in a bubble, either academia or professional one, and not learn local language. If your colleagues speak all english, you have non-native partner and don't have motivation to learn it won't come on its own. Not great approach but perfectly realistic.

Don't judge easiness of learning language based on English - its one of the easiest out there to learn (I speak 5 languages and english is absolutely trivial compared to others), especially for folks with similar base (ie roman/germanic ones). Slavic languages are much harder to learn and basically useless outside given country (with few exceptions but usable mostly for C2 or natives level).

Also, compared to many other languages even very basic level of english gets you somewhere, in some languages like French natives basically refuse to speak to you or simply don't understand you unless you have cca B2 level (this is personal experience of me and folks around me where I live)

smartties · 6 months ago

> in some languages like French natives basically refuse to speak to you

I've never seen this happen, but I do notice a lot of tourists asking for services or starting conversations without saying 'hello' or 'bonjour,' which is considered disrespectful in France

smartties commented on UK's hardware talent is being wasted josef.cn/blog/uk-talent... · Posted by u/sebg

Beretta_Vexee · 7 months ago

This will depend enormously on the company: a consulting and IT services company like Capgemini will employ Moroccan university graduates at 32K€/year. Apple will recruit the best engineers from telecoms companies, arms manufacturers, research institutes and intelligence services for 120K€/year and the same in share, equity.

France knows how to train excellent engineers and give them responsibilities in major government bodies, but doesn't know how to keep them in France. A glass ceiling is rapidly forming for engineers. French companies only value management. There's also this constant desire on the part of French companies to go low-cost.

The speed run of the French engineer is to be admitted to a good engineering school, to be recruited on diploma in a large state body, to spend 3-5 years there with a low salary but great responsibility, to be recruited by a Swiss or American company, profit.

smartties · 7 months ago

> The speed run of the French engineer is to be admitted to a good engineering school, to be recruited on diploma in a large state body, to spend 3-5 years there with a low salary but great responsibility, to be recruited by a Swiss or American company, profit.

Your comment is on point, though I’d slightly adjust the part about French engineers career goal. From my experience, many French engineering peers were not even aware that companies in France (Big Tech or Fortune 500) could offer six-figure salaries. They also often have never heard of leetcode/system design/behavioral interviews. They assume their career trajectory depends almost entirely on the ranking/prestige of their engineering school (which is true for french companies), but in practice, most U.S. recruiters/companies don’t even know what a French engineering school is. A bachelor/master degree and a good grind on leetcode is enough for them.

For most students I studied with, the dream is to secure a 45K~50k salary right after graduation, and target 80k as an end-of-career goal, by following this path:

-Attend a top engineering school.

-Join a CAC40 company as a software engineer.

-Transition into management after 10–15 years.

smartties commented on UK's hardware talent is being wasted josef.cn/blog/uk-talent... · Posted by u/sebg

James_K · 7 months ago

God, this place is such a sh*thole (literally if you count the sewage in the water). It's depressing. Every week, X is going downhill, Y is failing, we're out of money. I am so hopeless about my country's future. I feel that this is our century of humiliation.

smartties · 7 months ago

This seems to be the case for most European countries, particularly here in France. We’re experiencing stagnation, or perhaps even a decline. Launching a product in Europe is significantly more challenging due to the market’s high fragmentation. I don’t have much hope for the future of tech companies in Europe.

smartties commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2023) · Posted by u/whoishiring

smartties · 2 years ago

Location: Paris, France

Remote: Open to either remote or onsite

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Opengl, Vulkan, WebGPU, C++, Rust, GLSL/WGSL, CUDA

Portfolio/Résumé/CV: https://www.martinjules.com/

Email: See resume

I'm a graphics developer, looking for a 6-month internship (in my final year of a master's degree in CS) in the field of GPU/graphics programming. I previously created my own cross-platform 3D engine (GL/C++) and used it to create the game Exploration Craft, which has more than 55 million downloads across Android/iOS. And more recently, used it for the incoming game Spaceflight Factory on Steam (a factorio like game).

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smartties · 2 years ago

Weekly graphics programming articles https://www.jendrikillner.com/#posts

smartties commented on Ask HN: Any solo game developers here? · Posted by u/YesBox

smartties · 2 years ago

I'm interested to join, but I'm not doing it fulltime (I went back to uni to get a master degree). As a side project I'm developing a factory game (conveyor belts/factories/insertors..) with some Spaceflight Simulation game mechanics [1]

I'm planning on releasing the full game this December, but the game is already not doing so well (only 4K wishlists. 12K is recommended for a successful launch)

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2219580/Spaceflight_Facto...

smartties commented on Ask HN: What is your failed/cancelled project story? · Posted by u/lambdatronics

smartties · 3 years ago

I was working on a game part-time for 1 year. The game is mix of Factorio + Stardeus (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1358970/Cyber_Factories/). After releasing an early demo on Steam, the game seemed to be of little interest to anybody (only 1300 wishlists after one year). I had two publishers reaching to me, but their funding offers were too low for me to consider working full time on the game and ship a finished product (I would need 18 month fulltime to finish the game).

So due to a lack of interest from the audience, I just cancelled the project.

smartties commented on Emmanuel Macron is re-elected French President, defeating Marine Le Pen nytimes.com/2022/04/24/wo... · Posted by u/jbegley

olivierduval · 3 years ago

Actually, it's his last term... so we won't know ;-)

smartties · 3 years ago

He can comeback in 2032, he will be 54yo.