u/Midk_1

Software engineering market has become pure garbage, it has gone so fucking downhill since AI, software in general has become pure garbage and I don’t really know what to do with my life, whether I should continue pursuing this career or switch to some “real” engineering, like, is well written code still needed in the market for juniors to be hired? I’m so fucking exhausted of all these CEOs ranting on how AI is going to change us forever, not because they’re just annoying people, but because those were CEOs of companies I liked in the past, I just don’t know, I loved hand crafting code, not ‘cause I used to masturbate over syntax highlighting or something, but because the act of writing code was a beautiful process that implicitly led to the reasoning of the whole new system, whereas now it’s all just about feeding plain English files to closed source AI models and pull the trigger of this lottery machine and trying to fine-tune our English texts in order to make the lottery machine produce the least working code possible that meets some kind of requirements.

I don’t even know what I want from you on this thread, but, as the sub name suggests, I just had to let it off my chest.

With the whole AI thing people have gone crazy and a huge part of software is now (and has been) very shallow, are there any subfields of software that must require rigor and actual care for the craft?

Hi, 18M here, I have been diagnosed in 2022 with scoliosis (30+ deg thoracic, 15 deg lumbar), since then I've worn an ARTBrace and I've reached the peak of correction in Summer 2023, reaching a bit less than 20 deg thoracic and less than 10 deg lumbar, I didn't feel pain or excessive discomfort back then, I was almost at peace thinking that I've almost defeated scoliosis, then things seemed to go back at the start, I've lost that peak correction I've got, but it still was better than the start, then 2025 came, I had to go under open heart surgery which was planned since basically before I was born since I was born with a heart defect that got corrected at birth through my first open heart surgery which forced the surgeons to break my pulmonary valve, I lived my first 17 years of my life without a pulmonary valve, but my heart wasn't gonna stand it for more, therefore I had to have a pulmonary valve implanted, hence going into my second (and hopefully last) open heart surgery, which made me upset for my scoliosis, and I was asking myself, what if I'll lose the last bit of correction I've got from this brace? and if so, I don't wanna get another atrocious surgery and get my spine fused, I am scared. I asked for clarification to both my cardiologist and orthopedic and they reassured me that I wouldn't lose anything, and that everything that was lost I could've gained correction again, since few months before my heart surgery and after it I've felt physical discomfort and unbalance, both physically and mentally, I've been always feeling unbalanced, and I don't know if it's just me thinking too much about it, but I think that scoliosis unbalance is a primary cause of my own mental unbalance, the fact that I never have mental clarity and always have brain fog, and also the fact that I can't let my thoughts out pushing at the gym like my peers do, I am also a software engineer, and, the job market is pure garbage right now. Also, this mental and physical unbalance has caused me A TON of social issues, like, I always act weird around people and even have trouble talking with my parents, I just feel socially frozen unless there is a specific goal when doing social interactions, that's weird. I just wanna feel balanced again, like when I was a kid, I know we all have problems in life and we all feel tired in some sort of way. Also, in 10th of june I'm scheduled for my checkup orthopedic visit and I'll look for as much answers. I don't wanna feel unbalanced anymore and I don't wanna live with this physical unbalance anymore, but still I don't wanna go under awful fusion surgeries to correct my 30 deg scoliosis, I know that ASC (anterior scoliosis correction) exists but I didn't look deep into it.

I'm sorry if this has resulted unreadable but I just wanted to let it off my chest.

Since we’ve seen that CoTs try to prevent hallucinations in LLMs by forcing themselves to imitate human reasoning, therefore by producing an internal monologue, and consequently filling their context with tokens that aim to better their response later. Has somebody tried to employ this in discriminative models (pure classification) or in other kinds of generative models as well?

I was hanging around the careers page at Dolby until I've searched for "intern" in the search bar and got met with this "vibe coding intern" role. I've broadly read the description, and, I'm very confused.

What are your genuine thoughts about it?

Here's the link: https://jobs.dolby.com/careers/job/39649421?domain=dolby.com