Aiden Nigh

Reading my own documentation on my own library cause I forgot how to use it. Thank you past self!!!

I'm just realising in a way that getting hired is about mainly passing two filters: recruiter, hiring manager.

Not because you could be the ideal candidate for a hiring manager it means recruiters will be able to tell you apart. And not because the recruiter likes you, the hiring manager will.

I have to say that LLMs have been amazing to learn how to write idiomatic code in new languages.

First pass: Write function C style in Rust
Second pass: Give the code to an LLM and transform it to use iterators
Third pass: Actually learn from what it did lol

This workflow has been amazing to learn

I still find it funny that I went from Arch, i3, complete rice to a simple Fedora Gnome happy with defaults.

At some point all I wanted was stability and sane defaults. I just want to focus on my code and projects. Pretty similar to what happened to my nvim config.

Job hunting truly feels like dating.

One moment you are snugging in your fourth round, praises all around, the next you are no longer a great fit.

Meanwhile in the corner there's someone who has a crazy crush on you, but you just don't feel it.

I'm glad I'm married, sadly it doesn't apply to jobs

Never ever, in the case of forever, forget The Bitter Lesson:
incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/Bit...

Just had an interview where the hiring manager had no idea/ didn't care of the underlying tech.

Interviewer: Do you know how threads in C++ work?
Me: It's been a while using the threads from the stl, but I have experience working directly with pthreads and spawning them.

And still failed...

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Hi BlueSky people!

Beware ML and Graphics communities—a new titan has emerged!
(Although I’ll probably forget to post content on this account, won’t I?)