Working in Tech startups

[Stoic1]

Work with people you have enjoyed working with in the past. Jobs are jobs. Projects are projects. Clients are clients. But when you work with a good team anything is tolerable.

 

[TeTe]

with the amount of mistakes chatgpt makes........... you're only slightly better than doing it yourself.... even the highly touted Grok4 produces mistakes, and a small mistake can turn into a monster, big mistakes can be catastrophic if the scope of the project isnt completely understood.

No kidding. Chatgpt couldn't even replace the last couple pages within 42 word docs that I asked it to, using content in another word doc. Copilot wasn't much better. No matter how many times I prompted both it found a new way to fuck the formatting every time. Even after explicitly telling to keep the formatting exactly the same.

I got fed up and just copy pasted the content over the last couple pages one by one. It took me almost the same amount of time as I wasted trying to prompt the LLM.

I also tried prompting chatgpt over and over to help me write five smart goals for my mid year eval... Another waste of time. I ended up writing them from scratch in the same amount of time I tried fucking with the LLM. It just kicks out the most generic shit.

 

[High Test With da Best]

The reason I use it is because it can make simple and clean code, for instance, I can give it to produce a piece of code that calls the database based on some parameters, lock for given id, update sql, move to the next, and include logger object for logging, and it does that framework very well, with notes, declarations, etc, and I may end up saving time on those repetitive operations.

The difference between the AI and a human, is that the AI isnt going to tell me when I have a problem that should be solved with well packaged data vs a problem that should be solved with software coding, and that's similar to entry level developers, they'll omit important factors of architecting the solution.

That sounds like the best type of use for it.

I gotta wonder, if all these stories of mediocrity like from @TeTe above is intentionally built in, in order to not overwhelm folks and have them remain comfortable enough with it to keep using it and, constantly, keep training it.

 

[TeTe]

That sounds like the best type of use for it.

I gotta wonder, if all these stories of mediocrity like from @TeTe above is intentionally built in, in order to not overwhelm folks and have them remain comfortable enough with it to keep using it and, constantly, keep training it.

The problem is... When you feed too much shit to it over time... It causes the model to collapse. It kicks out whatever you ask, right or wrong and it hallucinates even more. It's like to gotta keep it in line so it doesn't spit out nonsense

 

[High Test With da Best]

The problem is... When you feed too much shit to it over time... It causes the model to collapse. It kicks out whatever you ask, right or wrong and it hallucinates even more. It's like to gotta keep it in line so it doesn't spit out nonsense

I bet the infrastructure running them can barely keep up with demand/usage. The best case would be to figure out how to run it offline on a local machine so a user wouldn't be exposed to whatever issues arise from remote access along with everyone else.

It'd also remove the creep factor of all your interactions logged forever by companies A-F making it, and their marketing partners G-ZZ as well as world governements 1-130

 

[High Test With da Best]

I bet the infrastructure running them can barely keep up with demand/usage. The best case would be to figure out how to run it offline on a local machine so a user wouldn't be exposed to whatever issues arise from remote access along with everyone else.

It'd also remove the creep factor of all your interactions logged forever by companies A-F making it, and their marketing partners G-ZZ as well as world governements 1-130

Oh and anyone else who wants to purchase that data or whatever else happens to that stuff

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

A recruiter from a big company asked if I would like to be considered for a role. A buddy of mine is working for this company, it will be a public company sometime in the future so I can join and gain pre-IPO equity which would be pretty sweet. But knowing myself, I'll probably last a year before I give myself some reasons on why I should quit. Maybe I can ask in the interview if I can have an output based job where I don't necessarily need to clock in and out everyday, but I doubt it.

Another recruiter from the same company messaged me about the same role. I asked if I could be a contractor.

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

Seems like getting out of tech is harder than it seems. Management couldn't find a replacement yet and they're doing budget realigning. I think I'll be staying until October.

It's harder to find contractor gigs on flexi-time compared to the usual 9 to 5 type employment. But I'm making sure the jobs I apply for are way more suited to my lifestyle than this current gig - always on the lookout for business opportunities, too.