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I find it's a huge boost for my day-to-day work.

If you work on architecture and Claude docs, then you can essentially just have it fill in the gaps. Work then mostly becomes a matter of defining what the next piece of functionality is (which you can also use Claude to help with).

The stuff that used to take days now takes hours. It's not perfect, but if you get your codebase into a good shape then the payoff is huge.

I'm from NZ (mostly european but part Maori heritage) and have had people talk to me in foreign languages, ask me in the supermarket if I'm from Spain (weird), give me random discounts etc.

I also get "you look/feel so familiar" a lot.

Happy to know I'd fit in in a number of places haha

13/18 Maybe growing up in NZ and hanging out a bit with people from different cultures helps.

I've just watched two major projects fail

This is an opportunity. You can have a good long career consulting/contracting for these types of companies.

It's the type of thing you'd be exposed to in a computer science degree - operating systems / compilers.

Always room to learn in software :)

Why would you shrink the team rather than become 20x more productive as a whole?

I'm at the lower end in the same way that a junior dev is at the lower end of the salary band. This is to be expected for anyone just starting out.

You're assuming that you need privileged information that is not available, but what I'm trading is basically the big player moves - indicated by movement volume in a stock.

You don't need all the info, there are emergent patterns that result for stocks that make big moves over time.

Not every stock that matches one of these patterns will be a winner, but you can base a strategy around this that allows you to have enough success, especially when you combine this with other attributes of the stock (and market conditions) at the particular point in time.

I'm openly aware that so far I'm in the negative. However most of this is due to me not having sold when instructed to (holding onto "favourite" stocks). Very close to break even currently, so no harm done after 6 months playing in the market.

Yes, I might consider doing this but need to consistently feel confident doing it manually first. I did set up a docker instance to connect to my broker, so perhaps a goal for this year!

Yeah, copy paste for non-agentic workflows. I'm keeping things extremely simple.

Exactly, copy paste related code and files. Give it some background ontext on what it is you're doing and then tell it what you'd like it to do.

Statistically speaking, we typically end up with a bell curve right?

So who's on the ends of the bell curve?

I've seen people on tiktok that exclusively trade options. It's not something I've looked into but my take after 6 months is that you basically find an approach that works for you, whether that be trading stocks, commodities, options etc and the time-scale that you trade.

Personally I like to do primarily tech stocks and mix it up doing swing trading (holding multiple days) with a bit of scalping as well (buy / sells over minutes).

At first I lost a lot of money scalping but now I seem to have a much higher success rate - you start to notice certain patterns in the way stocks move if you watch the charts long enough, and I've been learning to have more conviction in my positions.

Yes generally speaking, statistically most people will not beat the index.

Does it follow then that no-one is beating the index consistently?

Of course there are people who are not a statistic. Maybe not everyone is made for it, but that doesn't mean noone is out there beating the market.

Maybe its hard if you're a hedge fund, but I'm talking about individuals with relatively small accounts.

You can achieve a lot on the $30 plan.

I use Claude every day for everything, it's amazing value for money.

Give it a specific task with the context it needs, that's what I find works well, then iterate from there. I just copy paste, nothing fancy.

Stock trading can be quite lucrative if it's a good match. Have a look at Qullamaggie on YouTube.

Edit, I say this as someone that has been learning to trade the last 6 months. To be completely transparent I've actually overall lost money doing this, but have also brought my account back up from having halved to almost break even a couple times now and can definitely see the possibility of doing very well. If I was better at following instructions I would 100% be profitable. The YouTuber I mentioned doesn't sell any courses.

Edit 2, screw you guys for the downvotes. I'm sharing something I've found useful. You don't have to buy into the idea, but there are some people who do very well off of trading. Hence "if it's a match"

If you're into the gym and cooking, consider getting a cast iron frying pan.

Not only great for cooking, but it can also help with wrist strength - you may need to ease into lifting the pan with a single hand.

Awesome, thanks for that! That does confirm some of my suspicions...

He lives just a few hours from me as well.

Anyone care to give their take on Quantum Computing?

Does it have practical application? Are we actually progressing towards something or are research papers just a way to get the next grant in order to continue playing with Quantum?

Do the rats enjoy it and if so, will the rats teach other rats how to play?

This could give a whole new meaning to "the rat race"

Perhaps there are some people like you say that are grandiose narcissists and ALSO some people that are genuinely smarter than most others in the room and can see the obvious through the fog.

I think the frustration they're experiencing is more likely to do with a lack of control over their environment (including the lack of ability to control others).

I wish we could pin down not only the model but also the way the UI works as well.

Last week Claude seemed to have a shift in the way it works. The way it summarises and outputs its results is different. For me it's gotten worse. Slower, worse results, more confusing narrowing down what actually changed etc etc.

Long story short, I wish I was able to checkpoint the entire system and just revert to how it was previously. I feel like it had gotten to a stage where I felt pretty satisfied, and whatever got changed ... I just want it reverted!

He's probably right that no-one else can do what he can, because competent Devs aren't going to work for a company that operates like this.

If you have to build something because "Devs are too busy working on other things", then you're just bad at prioritising tasks.

If your team "can't do what I can" then you're bad at hiring.

I don't mind if a CTO works on a bug ticket, but make it part of the usual process, not hero driven development. Otherwise, what's even the point of having a process in the first place?!

Given their names I'd say they're too busy optimising primes...

On sounds - as a non autistic person but as someone with a good "audio memory", music and sounds especially in an office can absolutely get on my nerves. It's mostly the repetitiveness.

Being able to hear songs in your head sounds great until you have the same one on repeat for days.

This morning it's "the things we do for love". Not sure where that one came from.

Also high pitched sounds (seagull deterers) or electricity buzzing. I learnt at a physics class at high school that I could hear higher pitches than other kids as well, although now that I'm older I've probably lost some of that.

That's like saying "money doesn't exist".

In a sense everybody does have "2k" a month, because we all have the same amount of time to do productive things and exchange with others.

When these necessary resources are gifted to a person, there is a lower chance that they will decide to take part in economically productive behavior.

Source?

Even if that's true though, who cares if AI and robots are doing the work?

What's so bad about allowing people leisure, time to do whatever they want? What are you afraid of?

Nope, it's actually called that.

You can go on Amazon an order a Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher.

The reason I know about this is from eating at the breakfast table in Germany.

yeah, total buzzkill.

I get the need to call a peg a peg, but it's also good to allow a little fun as well or you end up with these dementors sucking the life out of a company.

For a slack group, I think it's relatively harmless if the focus is around casual shoot the shit convos.

Fremdschämen is a good one.

My favourite though: Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher. It's one of those things that you never knew you needed.

It's a Roman mailbox.

Paper was rolled into scrolls, and that's why you find them everywhere, because just like today people communicated with one another.

If you need to leave a message you write it on a scroll and insert in a hole. You could have different sized holes for different sized messages / documents.

You could basically leave the mailbox on your desk and have people put messages there for you to read (or the other way around)

The bits on the corners simply keep it a bit off of the surface - important incase of any moisture, spills etc.