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Ex IBMer here. When i was here i was told Bob would be one of the only B2B companies selling IDEs and the ONLY to do on-prem (few months ago.)

Do you guys still think Bob has a shot in this current market? Will large clients be convinced this kind of IDE+ on prem is the difference maker to be better than cursor/claude code/copilot ?

I’ve been pretty addicted to BGs for the last 6 years. basically whenever i have nothing better to do I would always open bgs. at least 2 games a day for the most of the 6 years.

I’ve been through frustrating client issues, no real MMR system (there was a rumor that this number Mmr is a placeholder for a real system back in 2020), mobile client disadvantage, unbalanced patches, but some great patches, which is why i’ve always played.

But after the update last week I’ve finally quit, didn’t even wanna download the game. Thanks Blizzard. I can know focus on my schoolwork and hopefully graduate

Tldr basically at a freshman orientation party, a video was uploaded to social media of a guy carry a girl in his arms, while in their bra/topless.

Then came a barrage of news and comments calling out this 淫亂 (perverted) party and being reposted everywhere. The school has then said they have launched a formal investigation, and most of the related organising committee and related department had to issue an apology….

WTF. This is literally the most normal thing in literally anywhere else in the world except maybe Islamic countries where women have no rights or North Korea. It’s not anything you can’t see on the beach. There’s no nudity and nothing actually inappropriate… This overreaction by all parties as absolutely insane to me as a HKer, meaning people need to be careful when they make out or hug on campus because this could happen???

With the media, school and some comments treating this so seriously, do we now live in a region of prohibition where adults are not allowed to even see such a mildly provocative act? Isn’t the issue where our society prohibits consenting, adult students’ freedom to party a much bigger issue than the act itself? Even mainland China isn’t this strict.

Just trying to start a conversation since most media outlets seem to be leaning towards the other side while I’m here worried that this is literally the end of students freedom in HK. When you’re not even allowed to have fun at uni with consenting adults.

I know we all hate the client for dancing minions and being laggy/buggy. But I literally cannot play, do nobody else have these issues?

1. On windows, Battlenet update gets stuck literally every time. I mean it eventually works but 10mb patch takes like an hour or something. Happens every update (sometimes i reinstall which is faster than the 10mb patch)
2. On mobile (latest ios iphone 15) I have been needing to reinstall the game every update, for the past year. No other fix works, and i’ve tried a lot.

It’s like Blizzard wants me to stop being addicted to this game since I played 1+ hour a day for the last 5 years

I joined a big tech company as a SWE (2yoe as AI/MLE) a few months back, got reorged, and got picked up by a team that i worked a small project with. Now my new team needs to work substantially with the CEO’s focus team (ex OpenAI guys), and i’m dragged along with it.

They work insane hours, and frankly I’ve never done proper SWE work, only MLE, and I still use a lot of AI assistance and haven’t shipped much production code. Not sure what to do here, it’s a great opportunity to learn but i feel like i might not be able to keep up and i’ll get laid off. How can I set myself up to not fall behind?

I’m relatively new with 1 yoe at big tech. Used to write code manually with some web based AI assistance (for learning and syntax). but this year our company’s AI tool is actually good enough for adoption amongst most people here, which I kind of agree and I think many of you would.

The issue is if I write these manually/ without coding CLI, i’m much slower. But with it, i’m not learning much and I don’t always fully understand its implementation, and it’s not always the best implementation. I mean I’m a junior so i don’t know well enough to always be able to provide it with good plan for complex tasks. I either have to slowly explore and not taking AI suggestions or to blindly trust its own plan.

So how would you guys (preferably seniors who use AI) suggest a relatively junior person to use AI? I’m finding it hard to balance speed of implementation and fully understand/ learning the code.

So all this insanity going on has reminded me of a very pivotal moment for my career last year.

As a junior (1 yoe) aspiring to break into tech (engineering specifically) I just joined IBM Sales as an engineer for 3 months. I was sent to GSS, and I was fortunate enough to meet one of the head for my department for the entire greater region (E.g EMEA CSM Lead). We were doing introductions and we went around to talk about the coolest project we’ve ever done in tech. I told about my time doing some science SWE at a startup, which was not insanely impressive engineering-wise but it was an interesting niche topic. And the region head for some reason directly said “I know this is very controversial, and don’t take it the wrong way, but I think IBM is not for you”.

He didn’t really explain why except that IBM can be a stepping stone for something greater, hinting at staying for a year or so. I was like literally in shock as he basically told me to quit ASAP. as a junior you can imagine it stuck in my head for a really long time. Like someone of this level going out of their way to say something like this is insane. I applied for a couple more jobs a while after that, now I’m at a much more suitable role for me as a SWE.

So yea, i can’t thank this person more for inspiring me to quit. With the shitshow going on, everyone I used to know is very affected and determined to leave, and i’m just so thankful to have dodged this bullet.

Ok I know it’s super controversial so some context. I’m working at big tech and I do use AI. I’ve used Claude, Antigravity, Copilot, Cursor and my company internal tool. Im not saying coding assistants are bad, but CLAUDE specifically i really dislike.

First it is designed to be “vibe coded”, completing the entire coding task with no knowledge required from the user. No inline diffs, no autocompletes and difficult to approve individual changes, and it’s almost always trying to change your code by itself without input from you. I much prefer Cursor/ my company’s internal tool (so does most people here) because it’s actually built for devs. You can modify specific lines, and is fully integrated into the IDE.

Second is that it thinks forever. it always takes a few mins for even very simple tasks (even on medium to low effort), when you basically only want to read, modify and check the code, which on the browser takes seconds for the couple of api calls. Like on antigravity it would take around half the time for a similar result for simpler tasks. I honestly feel like it is intentionally running for longer (doing more useless things) to burn more tokens and they make more money. This is also my problem with cursor as it’s way too expensive.

Yea so to summarise i feel like it’s built a tool to write code by itself rather than a coding assistant for a dev. I get for juniors it seems really helpful but it’s really taking too much control from you to the point you don’t know what you’re writing at all. then the whole codebase is just a pile of slop. Would be great if these companies could release more products that are IDE integrated

I used it like 3 months ago, I thought it was ok. But as I for better at coding I realise it’s not actually convenient when you can just write your own classes with api calls almost just as easily, and you can add a lot of the functionality that those packages don’t have (e.g parallel agents that work with your code)

Lately with so many people 北上, ive noticed especially some of the older generation （im a gen z) raving about the food there. But it's literally all just preprocessed food in the malls.

非遺鹽焗雞 is not different to KFC "finger lickn good", and 中國小炒王 is the same as five guys hand cut and perfectly crafted fries.

People are free to do what they want but raving about Shenzhen food (ie food that has been proven to come from factories and has a lot of additives) is crazy to me

Edit: funny how so many HKers are offended… I’ve lived in SZ for a year now and it’s almost impossible to find fresh food with no additives. other cities like guangzhou have much better food but SZ doesn’t have it

for the past 6 months + whenever I update on mobile, the game literally can’t launch no matter what i do, the only thing that works is a reinstall.

I’ve tried literally every other way to fix and saw the other posts but it just doesn’t work.

Small indie company btw and i’ve seen this issue on reddit for a quite a while. Literally never seen any other game this buggy

If we look at self damage beasts, painter, odd and even, the +3 health naga, lord of ruins;

I think none of them is playable right now and was not very playable back then in their original seasons when the power level was lower. And nobody really liked to play painter or self damage beasts. It’s just a shame and feels kinda lazy that they chose some of the worst cards to bring back and it’s a lot of wasted potential for a lot more fun comps.

Also they removed nerfed chicken but returned shimmermoth + felhorn with no nerfs which is kinda funny becauseI think people complain about shimmermoth a lot more. I personally think chicken is way more fun

I think after 4 years of AI hype, even layman can agree now that we’re not approaching AGI. More importantly the market has shown that any company could be competitive in the AI market and closed source models (like OpenAI 3 years ago) are no longer years ahead of others

As a researcher almost everyone is using open source Qwen models for benchmarking now, and GLM/Kimi/Meta all has a shot in the leaderboard. meaning, there definitely isn’t the billions of dollars of value in AI RESEARCH.

For example if a new company used a billion right now and poached some of the top Anthropic/OpenAI guys, they would likely have a competitive model in less than a year. meaning they spent like 100 billion less than all the other players in the market lol.

So recently there’s been more Mainland MTV (meiktv, 星聚會）brands that are coming into Hong Kong and they are insanely expensive and feels extortionate.

Naturally you’d think they’d at least match their relative prices in mainland, or undercut the HK peers like what JD and keeta does. But they decided to go the other way and charge 500-1000 per person with a COVER charge. FYI that’s like 2x the price of RedMr/Neway, and the service and quality isn’t any different from RedMr or Neway, maybe just slightly newer furniture.

I just find it ridiculous because it’s becoming an eyesore in Central/LKF. And it makes no sense bc the influx of new immigrants are working class and won’t be able to afford that?

Basically the title. Current role is kinda like a PhD Intern at a big tech. Working on the same projects as FTE but not leading or given full autonomy on project direction. Kinda stumped bc the current work is great but I don’t have a PhD and i’m not leading any projects. just wanna actually be a staff eventually but that does seem like a really steep hill to climb.

Anyone can give any advice? Is grinding out leetcode and system design basically still the only way? Do i need to push for more coauthors ?

Let’s say i’m a junior research engineer at google brain. If I wanna transition to quant, would there be roles with transferable skills?

Where i’m at, Research engineering is essentially doing the engineering for the research scientists, mainly building python systems, distributed system, and large scale ML infrastructure.

To my knowledge, Quant researcher is pure research, while many quant developer roles are pure software engineering/C++, so research engineers don’t really fit either . Would there be quant roles suitable for transitioning? Like would there be many systems engineer or research engineer related roles?

With AI, there’s been a need for a lot more compute, and intel/ Micron’s stock price soaring like crazy, why doesn’t IBM try to pivot to general purpose/consumer chips as well?

IBM allegedly has some of the best chips in its mainframe and other hardware, why wouldn’t they want to tweak those for general purpose processing and compete with intel/AMD?

Like even Google has TPUs, Meta has MTIA, Apple has silicon, IBM already has some of the best guys at this and they’re not taking advantage of those massive need for compute

So im working as a researcher (3yoe) outside of UK, but considering going back to London because there’s so much more opportunities especially with the Google, Anthropic, Openai expansion there. I don’t need a visa sponsorship

I see half the posts in UK subs saying junior is basically impossible with 300+ apps, while on the news almost every AI company is expanding in London.

So what’s the reality, should i spend my time looking for a job here, or is it genuinely as difficult as people say?

Also i’m a BNO holder (eligibility for 5 year visa into PR), how would you view this and would it affect my job search?

EDIT: the software engineering side of my company is better than this, i’m only talking about the AI lab.

I’m in a big tech AI lab. They hired a bunch of vibe code juniors to help with model development and they’re so clueless.

the company as a whole encourages vibe coding, but i think it is much more applicable to the seniors who write amazing code to have AI assistance. While the juniors have no clue what’s going on, not having any idea what their code does and often giving me wrong information about what they’re doing. an example is requesting one node (8 gpus) per model when they can request 1 gpu per model essentially wasting 8x compute. If the company actually keeps track, they’re losing thousands per day on this. It’s insane how these people are hired and encouraged to vibe when they clearly don’t know good coding practices. This is a really big AI lab btw.