IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

Cad said:

Can I just say the difference in the way you guys describe how you use AI (and the results) and the stuff posted in the AI threads is like night and day difference.

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AI threads here? Would imagine it's just something something trump something

Cad said:

Sort of alternates between omg AI is going to put us all out of work, omg look how pathetic this AI shit is it can't answer this simple question the way I want, and omg AI datacenters touched my wee wee inappropriately...

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Point one and three can be valid, but point two is completely gone

Cad said:

I forgot points four and five, four being "AI is the mark of the beast and this satanic shit is walking us down the wrong path" and then occasionally you see posts like you guys where it's like "I don't even write code anymore, I just manage the AI" and that part makes a lot more sense to me since I don't draft things by hand anymore either, why would you.

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That's our entire direction - don't write code by hand.

But i feel like 10-100x more productive and powerful than I ever have.

One thing ive noticed is that guardrails seem to not be consistent what so ever, at least with claude.

Ill use it reverse engineer the everquest structs/offsets for macroquest, and the older versions of claude will do it, no questions asks. This sort of stopped when fable first released as I think when it saw IDA related work, it would flag it and then force the work to the inferior models or just straight up refuse to do it depending how I asked.

Now it seems that if I use the skill I created to do the work months back, it ignores the limitation and manages to fully patch work that took days, just 6 months ago, into a couple hour effort.

Every once in a while it will still question the use case and if I tell it its just for a personal emulator, its says "o ok thats the clarification I needed, thanks." And shits it out