Lmao I’m in the same boat as you. I’m a recent-ish CS grad with no job and vibe coding (or cuck coding as I like to call it) sucks the joy out of every part of CS to the point where I’ve considered going back to college to get a different degree.

Also, I’ve actually worked a manual labor job before and am fully aware of how shit they are. Very underpaid and unappreciated work imo.

My viewpoint is that genAI will always cause cognitive decline no matter what however I haven’t come across any studies yet about analytical AI also brain rotting people. If it’s trained on data with consent from it’s owners’ and they find a solution to the environmental problems, I’d be fine with it as long as it’s used for good purposes.

This post about AI detecting cancer makes me believe it might be genuinely useful, although of course it can be used for despicable, evil purposes as well.

Also, humans really like making/designing things. I don’t see the point in automating activities that many people love doing. Every time I come across an ad advertising image gen or whatever it just feels so out of touch with humanity.

While I am very anti-genAI, I’m much more okay with analytical AI as long as it’s not blindly trusted. Technically they don’t need an LLM as they could use something smaller and optimized just to find vulnerabilities. I still take issue with ethical and environmental concerns but I think there are solutions to them. We just need to slow down, take the time to do things right, and ditch the whole “move fast and break things” mindset commonly seen in tech, but I doubt that will ever happen.

I suppose the big issue for me is that I’m also an artist and I view code similarly, especially when I combine code with my graphics. I understand though that with a large project you are going to have some amount of people using AI even if you try to filter them out, so I can partially understand his stance. However I really disagree with him when he says it’s a useful tool, given how AI causes brain rot, productivity losses, and environmental destruction.

Human written code these days feels equivalent to a unique and soulful artisan made item whereas AI code is like a soulless and defected factory made imitation. I’d much, much, much, rather support artisans over factory made slop and even before AI, artisan work has been well known to be significantly higher quality than factory made stuff. For something as foundational and important as a kernel, I really think AI has no place in it.

Congrats! The first day is always very special and magical and nice and cool and good.

(Also we have the same BiHRTday! I’m celebrating my 3rd year today)

How about Natalie?

Fin = Feminine in nature

I graduated last year. I’ve sent out hundreds of applications and still nothing. Had a few interviews in the first few months but haven’t gotten anything since. I just do odd jobs while working on my own stuff like game dev. I feel like it’s gonna be at least a few years before the job market recovers. Once the AI bubble pops they’re going to be sorely missing a lot of talent. Don’t feel bad if you can’t find anything right now, there’s a lot of other people who can’t either.

I also had some doubt before my first appointment. But afterwards I was so happy and all that went away. It’s been like 3 years now and I’m still happy.

Vibe code bros aren’t real programmers. They’re business people, not computer people. Even if they have a CS degree, they only got that because they think it’ll get them more money. They lack passion and they don’t care about understanding anything. They probably don’t even care about what they’re generating beyond its potential to be used in a grift.

I graduated college not that long ago and my CS classes had quite a few former business majors. They switched because they think it’ll be more lucrative for them but since they only care about money they didn’t bother to actually learn the material especially since they could just vibe code through everything.

They’d need to drink more milk than humanly possible. If there was some way to drink extreme quantities of milk every day without dying it could be done.

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Thanks for the info. I don’t really feel like the prog is helping me much anymore, but I’m also not getting very much in the first place. The effects you listed do seem pretty good, so I may try the rectal route just for a bit and see if I notice anything and if not then I’ll probably talk to my dr about it.

It was graffitied on a bridge. I liked it so I took it.

I just had mine removed like 3 months ago. I’ll answer your questions in order.

I asked my doctor about it and he recommended me some in network surgeons, so finding a place to do it was easy.

For recovery I remember laying in bed for like 4 days before I got a bit more active. I could manage pain just fine with otc meds. A lot of my pain I think was nerve pain, which I felt moreso in my inner upper thighs rather than my groin and I found that using an ice pack helped a lot. I felt a lot better after just one week, but I did still have to take it easy with activity for about 6 to 8 weeks.

I do have extra skin. If you want to get a vaginoplasty in the future, you should leave it since they will use that skin. I imagine that you could get it removed if you want though.

Mine was around $24,000 without insurance. I’m on my parents insurance still, and my Mom had a surgery that maxed it out, so I was very fortunately fully covered and paid nothing. The surgery itself was $20,000 but then you have things like anesthesia, getting the letters, the consult, and pre and post op appointments.

After the procedure they gave me pain meds and a laxative. Didn’t really need the pain meds and I used the laxative for like a week. I also have stopped my T blocker since, which is nice.

Thanks for the advice. It was just an orchi. I did piss like a horse when I got home but idk if they had a catheter in or not.

No but I did think about it. I decided that my balls are better off in the garbage because I hate them so much.

All the cool girls hang out in the Tomcat server

Same. Sometimes I simply just think about the fact that I am a woman and it makes me feel so happy. I still have occasional dysphoric days but they’ve been getting less frequent the further along I get.

That reminds me of when I was graduating college a few months ago and it was my first time on campus since I did all my classes online. We had a rehearsal in this theater building and I didn’t know where to go so I followed this group of women I saw. Turned out they were just heading for the restroom but one of them held the door open for me and internally I was like “eeeeeee yay! They see me as a woman!” Didn’t have to go to the bathroom though so I kinda just walked in and then walked right out lol.