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Also, your third paragraph is highly ironic.

I usually stick to the analytical stuff, the continental stuff was pretty traumatizing honestly, reading through Being-and-Time in a couple days on Adderall fried some brain cells and my perception of reality permanently.

I am now a senior engineer at a F500 and I just have a BA in Phil.

It is a highly underrated degree, and going forward with knowledge specialization becoming unnecessary, and eventually unfeasible due to the triviality of AI making it not needed for a human being to study a hyper-niche subject for 4-8 years for a PHD dissertation, it will probably end up being one of the only remaining degrees left.

Academia may be going back to its roots; Philosophy was the first and will be the last academic subject. Once capital accumulation through job training stops being the focus of academics, it can go back to being what it once was. University was never meant to be a training-ground for jobs, it was meant to be a place to seek truth and knowledge.

Your analysis couldn't be further from reality, except the ADHD part, lmao.

I have the industry figured out buddy, it's you who thought they did, but doesn't anymore.

Execs will not put up with managers who are not going to use the best tools. I expect soon you will be forced to, or you're out.

Also, I've been writing code for over 20 years. I started programming LUA and ActionScript back in 2000 when I was 10 years old.

Your days are numbered old man.

Would suck to have someone be your manager who refuses to even understand the new tools, much less use them; you will make a GREAT manager.

I'm honestly in disbelief that people in the field can be this purposefully ignorant, and proudly at that.

Nice tired no true Scotsman argument. You literally sound like a stubborn boomer refusing to see the change. You sound ignorant, not wise.

I've created several multi-modal AI applications deployed in production; fully created through Codex and Claude code. SOC2 compliant and created in a month, not years.

You can be an old man, but you don't need to have an old man mentality.

You wouldn't hire someone who only knows how to use a typewriter in a world of computers. No big deal, right? "A computer is just 'another tool', why should I not be fine with my typewriter?"

Literally fucking blows my mind I'm even having this discussion on this website, with people who should know better.

Good luck, you will need it.

You sound like my Grandmother who refused to even look at a computer screen. Literally the same. It's amazing it's coming from so called tech-literate people in the field.

Sad.

I'm not some starry eyed junior; I have built multi-modal agents being used in production on government contract work in the field, right this second.

You all can go fuck yourselves, you neo-luddites will be the first out the door. Good riddance.

I'm sure you super qualified rando's on HN know and understand the tech and know its limitations better than the Google engineers actually making the stuff.

Real ripe coming from a guy who can't even refactor a few lines of code correctly with an AI.

I couldn't roll my eyes any harder.

I don't get it. Proudly saying you don't plan to use better tools is not some 'cool' look or the brag you think it is. You're just making yourself less valuable and being ignorant on purpose.

Cool.

ftfy

You asked about Google and what impressed me so much, going through this exercise, while not exactly helpful for me and my work directly (I'm doing similar things but completely in the Azure ecosystem), it is definitely a great display of how agents are more than just an 'LLM' that everyone here seems to think is equivalent to AI.

It's seriously the opposite feeling of imposter syndrome at this point, I'm in my 30's, a senior data engineer myself at a F200 company; I can't believe so many of my peers are so behind and ignorant of what is going on, confident enough to makes publicly lasting comments about how 'unreliable', 'bad', 'slop'; 'AI will never this or that'.

It's incredible what is going on.

I feel like I'm living in some kind of bizzarro world now when I read anything AI related on HN. It's insane.

Maybe you should try reading a bit more.

https://codelabs.developers.google.com/way-back-home-level-5...

That is the completed instructions for the fifth level, I leave it as an exercise to the reader to actually read more and find the rest of the steps on their own.

I spent some time chatting with Google engineer who put this together, Ayo Adedeji, at UCLA's SAIRS conference.

You're all a bunch of ignorant old men yelling at literal cloud servers.

I'm done with this place. /g/ and /r/accelerate are the only places left not filled with idiots anymore.

This place is fucking dead.

I am dismissing the neo-luddites because they are stupid and wrong, not because I am in a pro-AI bubble.

Get better rituals. PEBCAK.

Anyone here who is currently 'underwhelmed'; please get through all 5 levels here and then say the same thing.

This is just the beginning. I seriously can't believe this place turned into neo-boomerism ideology on tech. I honestly don't get it, just makes me think everyone here talking about being seniors and architecture and blah blah; don't actually know shit, and aren't actually good at what they do.

I don't know what happened to this place, but it went from actual young people sharing information on the newest things in tech, tech philosophy, interesting stuff; to now old men yelling at the clouds about the new tech.

The simple truth is, these senior devs have no idea how to use these new tools to their capabilities.

It's a simple case of PEBCAK; ironic considering most of them would be the ones throwing that term around 20 years ago.

I sit and play guitar by myself all the time, I play for nobody but myself, and I enjoy it a lot. Your argument is absurd.

Yes, quite funny. The claim is absurd. Cars communicating with each other is feasible even for older vehicles.