Honestly, I only use coding agents when I feel too lazy to type lots of boilerplate code.
As in "Please write just this one for me". Even still, I take care to review each line produced. The key is making small changes at a time.
Otherwise, I type out and think about everything being done when in ‘Flow State’. I don't like the feeling of vibe coding for long periods. It completely changes the way work is done, it takes away agency.
On a bit of a tangent, I can't get in Flow State when using agents. At least not as we usually define it.
I've build a signal injector to debug a guitar pedal that was not working. It was a nice little journey in itself. The astable multivibrator produces so much harmonics that I could hear it all the way back from the input jack, where it was supposed to be silent. Heck, I could hear it just by putting the probe nearly close to the circuit. The signal pushed through the circuit like Juggernaut breaking walls. Learned a lot about filters and was able to produce a nice sine wave out of it, it worked great.
This is the best advise here. OP, I'm sure that life is hitting you hard, but there's some valid criticisms. When we're in angst it subconsciously gets into everything we write, including resumes.
You need to sober up. Tailor your resume to each application, Cut excesses. Write simpler and make sure your experience covers what the position asks.
Also, consider talking to friends or doing therapy. Opening up with someone you trust helps a lot. Avoid doomscrolling. Things can look bad right now, but they can get better. Good luck.
Go read a book, contribute to linux kernel, eat a cheeseburger, get in a nice hotel, watch movies, learn to cook, drive though the country, befriend locals, start a wine collection, earn a master's degree, publish papers..
The author seems to put great value on doing grandiose things, so those suggestions may seem frivolous.
It's a respectable goal to pursue huge achievements in professional life, but please be aware that it involves lots of: (a) talk to other people and (b) doing mundane stuff most of the time. It all depends on how hard you want it.
English, German, and all hard skills i'm slacking off: Cloud, Deep knowledge of networking and linux. Maybe finish reading Design Data Intensive Applications for good. And definitely getting a Java certification as I find it useful as a personal metric.
For my hobbies, I still hope to get things organized (in my computer, my desk and my mind) to record some metal composings.
That is a repetition of the argument other commenters have made. A car is better than a human in a single dimension. It is hard, though, to be better in multiple dimensions simultaneously, because humans effectively are highly optimised general purpose machines. Silicon devices have a hard time competing with biological devices, and no amount of ”AI“ will change that.
I don't particularly believe superhuman AI will be achieved in the next 50 years.
What I really believe is that we'll get crazier. A step further than our status quo. Slop content makes my brain fry already. Our society will become more insane and useless, while an even smaller percent of the elite will keep studying, sleeping well and avoiding all this social media and AI psychosis.
The social media thing is real. Trump and Vance are the strangest, vial politicians we’ve ever seen in the USA and in certain their oxygen is social media. Whether it’s foreign interference helping them be successful or not, they wouldn’t survive without socials and filter bubbles and the ability to spread lies on an unprecedented scale.
I deleted my instagram a month ago. It was just feeding images of beautiful women, personally enjoy looking at those photos but it was super distracting to my life. I found it a distracting and unhealthy.
Anyway I logged in the other day after a month off it and I couldn’t believe I spent anytime on there at all. What a cesspool of insanity. Add well the fake AI images and it’s just hard to believe the thing exists at all.
Elon musk is another story, I’m not sure if it was drugs an underlying psychological or Twitter addiction but he seems like another “victim of social media”.the guy has lost it.
I'm not an IG "user" (I'm writing that word in the "addict" sense), but I believe you're right about its harmfulness.
On the Elon front, you're not alone in thinking that he has essentially OD'ed on Twitter, which has scrambled his brain. Jaron Lanier called it "Twitter poisoning":
LLMs help bootstrap ideas where developer lack skill. By this very nature, that generated, not totally understood code is the worst thing you can put in production.
The fact that it will be put in production by the metric ton is a guarantee that any initial gains in speed will be offset by countless hours of desperate debugging. And for that, LLMs are useless, in my experience.
This. The adoption of LLMs for code generation, even with this statement well understood, feels inevitable, and there's going to be some amazing consultancy work fixing the garbage that gets put near production.
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