The hoops you have to go through to summarize a document even using LLMs with 100s of billions of parameters is insane. Even when you get something that "works" with RAG, all you are really getting is a summary of the distilled version of the document, not a pure summary.

I've got a script that breaks down documents into manageable chunks with an overlap so the meaning isn't lost between paragraphs, and it works decently enough, especially when you add terms and definitions to the system prompt for things it has trouble with. But the context window is still a problem so you have to discard older entries, which means you can't correct previous items based on new entries.

Using vision models to OCR the image instead of reading in a text document seems to be working a bit better, but it relies on the image being the right size and you can't load in too many at a time.

The Orwellian irony is that A.I. agents can probably help me better at finding a job than most recruiters can. lol

Interview question:

We want team members who are passionate about our mission. If you’re excited about helping people live healthier and longer lives, tell us about a moment or experience that sparked your interest in healthcare.

So I was at the hospital where my uncle was working and i stole a temesta lmao

I'm so over this new job. Things move so slowly, everything is broken down into waaaay too many micro-services. Managers have to micro-manage because there are no integration tests and there are always production problems.

My last place was so streamlined. When things got in, they were in. Continually testing/continual deployment. The thing was a massive beast and had problems, but I could run Linux and there was a real sense of everything moving.

There's only been one chat in the 9 months post layoff in our old TeamBlind room and things seem to be going alright. They're finally hiring mid-engineers to replace the layoffs/attrition. They finally dropped Kanbanize, a terrible project management tool, and went back to Linear.

I'd never work for them again, but the work did feel more meaningful and the engineers were a lot better. It was also $30k more per year.

My senior dev pushed the backend on lab finally. It's even worse than expected.

- No documentation
- 1 query that retrieves data
- the one query is not even usable in our application without changes
- the total of 1 record that is able to fetched
- somehow misses queries he demo'ed in a meeting more than a month ago

What is your preferred coding style? Such as those imposed by Checkstyle.

This November shall be... Noirvember, i.e. watching Film Noir. Nyah, see? H'what are you saying, see?

Degrees of comparison are weird as they go in the "more" direction for almost every human language but not in the "less" direction.

For instance, there is hard, harder and hardest,
but if it goes in the other direction, it’s suddenly "less hard" and "least hard".

It’s even weirder for languages that don‘t fall back to the "more" form for long adjectives, like English does:
More retarded, most retarded.
Which is again symmetrical to the other direction with "less".

Just some shower thoughts…

My job is not satisfying anymore. I used to live creating beautiful pages from scratch and totally get a kick out of working for A-clients.

However i’m currently more and more turning into a software developer. Nobody cares if it’s pretty as long as it’s functional and working noone cares.

Ofcourse it give me freedom but at least half of the stuff i’m working on is not creative in the least bit and worse; is created by AI in seconds.

Are there any developers out there who made a successful career switch?

So November is epilepsy awareness month.

People literally shaking with excitement about this.

2025/6 is the year contrast dies.

Apple, obviously, with liquid glass (AKA, "I can't see what's on top or bottom!")

But now also, trying out Visual Studio 26, everything is just a slightly different shade of gray.

Won't anyone think of the clarity?! We have reached the point where we are so biased towards form over function, that our form is no longer functional! Bring back contrasting shades of colors in UI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have a cold moving through our house. Some people have it, some people don't.

Me: Do you have a cold?
Kid: I don't know...
Me: Is your nose running?
Kid: Yes
Me: Then why don't you go catch it?
Kid: ...shut up...

Shamefully, after years of c++ hobbyism, I've only now discovered the ABSOLUTE BEAUTY of constexpr

I thought it was just the "new way of defining constants", so I always skipped over it as more of a basic utility than a hugely powerful part of c++

I didn't realize it could do comptime code! I can pre-compile huge arrays into my binary just like I could with comptime in zig.

Fuck me, I feel stupid as hell. More c++ rants to come, surely.

I've always been a frontend guy but this time I'm ready for the backend

And no I'm not talking about code

The push for AI is going to put people in hot water and possibly jail. Here is one example.

Is it okay to put a resume into an AI Detector to determine if it was AI written?

If PII is not removed, and the AI Detector is a public service (meaning no control of where the data goes) then it may be a GDPR violation. PII is not a joke in the USA either. There are things you have to follow to protect that. Work history is also a form of PII. It names places you worked so someone could figure out it is you that way.

Also, why would anyone care if they used AI to work on their resume? People are being asked to modify their resume to match job descriptions. One tool to do that is to use AI to help with this. If someone does this, and doesn't proof read that is on them. Also, you have to tone down the flowery bullshit AI produces. It embellishes and flat out lies.

Rust is fucking hard! I think I need more estrogen.

Here some nice performance statistics from AI used for coding: https://static.molodetz.nl/rp.cgi/...

This statistics page just stopped at a certain moment exactly like 10.000. I should've known. I read the source code and literally an entry_limit variable. Why would such variable ever exit? The gateway kept workng but it stopped to maintain statistics.

I have sent 1.37 GB of source code to AI and received 86 Mb. 63 errors on 10.000 requests, AI came from far. First i had a chatbot that i just stopped with debugging because the issue were always remote. This is mainly grok-code-fast-1 trough open router. Could say they're reliable.

I love data :)

I've been trying out Amazon q on and off for a few days. I can see the potential it may have. But learning how to use it is best done while working from home as a sudden outburst with too many swears in a row in an open space office draws attention.

I just had a recruiter reach out to me on LinkedIn for a senior front end developer job. Hybrid, 70% more than what I currently get as a Laravel developer. And I really like working with Laravel.

Fuck... I've been in this new job since September and I might just pursue this. It's SO MUCH MONEY, HOLY FUCK.

Problem is, I won't have a lot of holiday time when my lover wants to come visit me next year.

My daddy was a baker. The flour was bringing pest, so we had a cat.

We also had a giant automatic oven. And a sale lady that was in charge of checking that the cat wouldn't be in it before closing it for the night.

One day she didn't do her job and when my parents woke up, it was smelling like grilled chicken.