u/StrikingClos

I swear every time i talk to dev friends who work strictly in python or ts, they rave about how much boilerplate they can generate now. but then they spend hours debugging weird edge case hallucinations because the model just statistically guessed teh next syntax token without any underlying logical grounding. it feels like the whole industry is just happily accepting a massive regression in software safety

working in haskell lately feels like a completely different universe. we actually care about mathematical soundness and types. the idea of just letting an autoregressive model brute-force a solution and hoping the test suite catches the fatal flaws is just wild to me

I did have a bit of a sudden realization today though that maybe the hype cycle is finally hitting a wall. I was reading up on how the newer ai reasoning benchmarks are starting to shift heavily towards formal verification and theorem proving environments. like, people are finally admitting that just throwing more compute at a standard transformer doesn't magically spawn deterministic logic

idk. it just makes me appreciate our ecosystem so much more. Pure functions and a ridiculously strict type checker are basically the only things keeping me sane when the rest of the tech world seems perfectly fine drowning in probabilistic slop

I'm trying to level up my wardrobe and make it more stylish without blowing money on stuff I'll only wear a couple times. I want to look put together every day, but also be practical because I'm trying to spend less this year.

Right now I'm looking for a nice pair of daily driver sunglasses. So I came across this square pair on The Freedom State that looks pretty cool for driving, kind of that Hailey Bieber type of style, but I want to see what you wear or recommend instead. I used to own a pair of Ray-Bans but I kind of got bored of that look. And I'm staying away from anything designer because let's be real... I lose sunglasses all the time.

What shapes do you usually go for that work with most outfits? Any recs? Thanks!

As you can see, my boss recently found out that I’ve been learning Finnish, and now I kind of regret ever mentioning it

For context, I’m not fluent at all. I started learning because I have Finnish roots and got curious about the language and culture. I grew up in the States, same as my parents. I think my grandparents may have spoken some Finnish here and there, but it was never really passed down in the family

I mostly learn it as a hobby, and I don’t think that I can built a career from it. But now I can understand bits and pieces, hold very very basic conversations, and recognize some words, but Finnish is no joke. It’s a tough language, and I’m nowhere near the level where I could professionally translate legal or business docs

The problem is my boss somehow took “learning Finnish” to mean “fully bilingual.” And now he wants me to translate contracts, emails, and messages from business partners in Finland… I tried explaining him that I’m not qualified for that and I’m not gonna to translate any legal or formal texts and take responsibility for that

His response was basically that I “shouldn’t have told people” I know Finnish if I can’t do the job. Then he went on this whole rant about how languages aren’t that hard and that he doesn’t speak any foreign languages himself, he just changes his accent when talking to people abroad, which in real life sounds really insulting and somehow thinks that counts

At this point, I’m honestly tempted to run everything through ai translator just so I can survive these requests without losing my mind

BTW, my boss is pushing 70 and not exactly plugged into newer tech, so I doubt he realizes how much translation software has changed over the years