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Yes me too, but how will new people become seniors without going through that junior experience first. Strange times.

Good point.

Yeah, but I don't think that crash would affect usage of AI tooling in software development. All serious developers already understand that it's not AGI and that supervision is important. If crash actually happens, it would make that even more clear for everybody else.

@Natasha Tori Maru Yes, there are still lots of challenges, but the nature of those challenges has shifted. In one sense, it has become easier because the technical aspects have become easier. If you used to struggle with coming up with algorithms manually, an LLM can now help you do that. But in another sense, it has become harder because you now need a much stronger understanding of software architecture. That's more difficult to develop because it requires taking responsibility for ambitious, large-scale projects with many moving parts. So yes, the challenge is still there, it has just changed.

@Natasha Tori Maru Yeah it's more general issue, I also sometimes am guilty of outsourcing something I need to think about / contemplate deeply to AI, by just asking it. But after doing that couple times, I saw that it won't work in the long run, I become depended on it and lose ability to actually solve something for myself. I mean, when you're thinking on philosophical questions, you can't ask them to AI, you have to do it yourself. But AI can be used to give you some historical context for example, it can fill you in with data gaps you're missing, but that doesn't mean you don't need to read books now. But most of population won't be that careful, they won't make that distinction in their minds of how using LLM to outsource deep thinking degraded that ability, and that maintaining and strengthening that ability is critical for many things. But to get back to my coding examples, it's different there because companies are now forcing us all to use Claude or some other LLM for our work because it speeds us up, and business cares on results delivered quickly. It doesn't care about degrading abilities. I'm using the ability I've developed with years of practice to guide LLMs and make distinctions in the work it produces, but I don't learn the same way I did before coding agents. Before coding agents, most weeks was learning experience, we were solving problems ourselves that needed much more effort. Now it's just prompting AI. So I don't know where this will take us, I'm worried to be honest. Also I'm sick of all this shit, everyday something new comes up that you need to be up-to-date with. If I didn't have to worry about finances and somehow it was solved, I woudn't even think of coding agents, lol. I'd just chill in the forest somewhere But it is what it is.

I don't see any other other way of actually checking what LLM did. If you don't know how to write quality software (it's not strictly about coding only), you won't understand when Claude messes something up. UI might work, test might pass, but architecture can be so wrong that it messes up project in the long-run, and it will snowball into slop after many iterations of prompts, from someone who doesn't understand what he's doing. You can set standarts, guides for LLMs, you can use Skills (it's a way of improving understanding of LLMs), documenting everything you do for agents to read, every standard you want it to use, etc. But it still doesn't follow it 100%, and still halucinates from time to time, still makes mistakes, still needs sueprvision and giving directions. Also, each time you're building a feature, it asks questions for you to decide the architecture, so those decisions are on you. It can make decisions on it's own but again, that can be problematic in the long-run. Yes they do unfortunately, that's something I'm most concerned about. This coding agents won't go away, but developer community is very depended on them now, since we don't write code manually, if this continues for years, I might not be able to do what I did manually before. But again, I think agents are here to stay, so what I'm doing now is learning how to leverage them in best ways possible to deliver quality results and also learn new things by building side projects. Also I'm trying to get better at understanding at architectural level, decision-making level. That's the skill that I need most now. The issue I see is with beginners, because I don't see how they're gonna gain experience necessary to have that understanding ability, I needed lots of years of manual (because there was no LLMs to work with) work to get that.

I do, maybe not every line every time, but you need to understand the output enough to be sure that it won't mess anything, also you need to remember what you did, where you made changes, you need to maintain understanding of your codebase, you must not allow it to turn into AI slop, which will happen very fast if you're not careful. I review code of my co-workers daily and some of them who are reckless and irresponsible don't read what AI generates, commit and push slop that will mess up the project if I allow it, so it's AI generated but still need a competent reviewer.

Same for the company I work for, we haven't written code manually since Opus models got good. @Leo Gura What you need to distinguish in coding is vibe coding vs coding with AI assistence. We don't write code manually anymore, but it's super critical to check and understand what AI generates. You have to know what you are doing to deliver quality results. Vibe coding is when someone doesn't understand what he's doing and he's just prompting, without even checking code, without even using IDE. Of course that won't work with enterprice level software, that can only work with prototyping or doing unimportant work.

So, as a guy, what should you be prioritizing when learning how to attract feminine girls? Becoming more musculine, or getting in touch with your emotional and humorous side, developing capacities to be emotionally intimate with a woman. I guess both.

My condolences, brother. I got my mom a puppy two years ago, and over those two years I've come to love her so much that I don't think I've ever loved a human that much. Didn't thought I could get attached to a pet like that. That must be tough.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0063418568?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback Read this, they do a pretty good job at that.

@Rasheed We should go from Tbilisi to Bali sometime in the future Also, maybe try Batumi as I suggested, on season there are many Slavic girls there, you might find many of them attractive.

Nowhere compared to 5-Meo state or nowhere in general? What about what you call sober awakenings, like the one you had very early-on on a retreat (before psychedelics), I remember you telling that story in an old video.

Fitness and health skills (weight-lifting properly, cooking different food, etc) Meditation and mindfulness, pranayamas Using LLMs more effectively at my job, software architecture skills Contemplation and philosophy Attraction skills

What's your day-to-day diet like? Like for 80-90% of the times, what do you eat? I try to lose weight while building muscle and here's what I eat: protein pancakes (protein powder, banana, egg) chicken breast + rice / buckwheat eggs cottage cheese tuna salad some fruit That's it basically. 1900-2000 calories and 160g protein. And on the weekends I might switch and bring in some variety, but still stay in these caloric range. What about you?

Yeah, a huge part of the work of becoming more conscious involves accepting selfishness, I also struggle with it and I'm almost certain this struggle will intensify tenfold once I have some Awakenings and try to integrate the insights into relative world. Still, without such consciousness, even with selfishness, sometimes when I dwell on my own, how selfish I was in intimate relationships, with my family, friends, etc, and how robotic and automatic life becomes from time to time with all the addictions and survival stuff, it sickens me, but I also try to see the reasonings behind it, the intelligence that was behind it. Even addiction is a very intelligence mechanism, just to observe how it completely absorbs you to keep you surviving the only way it knows, not to mention the mechanism behind the selfishness itself as a whole, it's so complex and interesting, but at the same time obstructive if one is trying to transcend it or change life circumstances to allow more trutful living. I agree with this, people even remotely interested in these topics are very rare. For me personally, I've lost one partner that was like that, I was grieving for months because I thought I'd never find someone like her, so aligned with my value, it was really tough, but I had to accept that fact in the end. I think I did. Even if I don't find anyone like her, I think I'm okay. But hey, we're still young so life is full of surprices you know, never say never. Yeah after a while that will get real boring. Something has to be rekindeling connection. Maybe she needed more time to open up and go deeper with you? Or maybe she needed introductions to certain topics that she'd find interest in? I don't know, trying to see the situation from her perspective as well.

Exactly, I've met many of them on different occasions, it's almost always more annoying than normies. They lack philosophical depth. I'm not saying that I've maxxed out that depth myself but at least I'm aware some of the epistemic traps out there. Yeah that must be challenging, I can't relate to that because as I said I can basically go weeks without direct human interaction and be just fine. Covid lockdown was the happiest period of my life. I could just be with myself all the time. Anyways, good luck brother hope you'll find some resolution to your problem soon enough, I think you're on the right track.

Yeah, no thanks lol, I'd rather be single than act like I care about stuff that I don't really care about. Life is more peaceful like that Same for me, if I go to a serious consciousness retreat, I'm not there to look for a date. But there are some lighter, more green-ish yoga / meditation wellness retreats, that focus more on relaxation than a hardcore metaphysical enquiry. But again, the types of women you find there, you've probably already have encountered many of them already, so. Nothing new. It's a tricky situation to be in.

Why not, she will tell you about manifestation, chakras, healing crystals, past lives and types of souls Yeah I get it, without proper epistemic base and questioning, all that becomes unbearable after some point. It would be very annoying for me as well to listen to all the unquestioned new-age stuff all the time. But I'd like to believe that not all girls are like that on retreats / spiritual workshops.

You don't even need 3, I have just one like that and it's enough for me I also had a girlfriend like that and I kind of exhausted that need, at least for the moment. But I also get Miguel's point of view, it would be hard for me as well to not be able to talk with my partner on deeper topics, even outside of spirituality. There are so many aspects of reality that can be had deep fulfilling conversations on. But for me, it might be weird but I don't care about that much anymore, in the past I did care about that a lot, but after I got it for couple years, meh. It didn't fulfill me ultimately, so it was another dead-end. I'll experiment with it in the future some more, it will be a better experience since I'll also be much more mature than the previous time.

Imagining a meaningful vision for my life, planning it out over days / weeks / months / years (roughly) and then daily execution towards them, with course-correcting along the way depending on how things unfold. This give an overarching meaning to my life. Oh, and playing with my mom's puppy just brightens my life. She's always so excited to see me.

Only one way to find out I guess, you'll understand that in a while after finding someone like that. I'm guessing you have already interacted with lots of women in your field, in dancing, right? No matches like that? I knew a girl who loved dancing Tango, and she was very feminine and full of youthful energy, also interested in yoga and meditation, haven't had a chance to have a deeper conversations but I'm guessing she would be into it. But dancing is also a generic thing that doesn't really map out to deeper interesets. So it's hard to filter with that as well.

@Miguel1 Yeah, all fair points. The sad part is that it's hard enough to meet a conscious individual in general, who is really interested in things you seek, a man or a woman, let alone a sexy woman plus all that. And there's other types of compatibilities that need to be matched for long-term relationship to work. If you had to compromise on some qualities in a woman, what would you be willing to compromise on?

Yeah that already starts a relationship on a very unhealthy base, with those kinds of conditions. It's hard enough to change yourself, let alone change a (unwilling) partner. But I've seen a cool before after photos of couples on reddit who both lost substantial weight for example, and seemed happy, but that's another case. Those matches were not built on such conditions.

@Miguel1 Can't sexy nerd become a sexy witch under your guidance? Have you considered an openminded girl who isn't much into spiritual stuff but you introduce her into it? Won't that work to some degree? Of course she has to have the openness for that and be interested in deeper aspects of reality than just pure material goals, and I think that's what you're referring to as being rare.