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Cake day: Jul 02, 2023

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I think the difference is that you couldn’t ride a calculator to get a bachelor’s degree in a “stem” field, and I think you can now.

There are more useless cs grads than ever.


Yes I learned how to be a professional on the job. But I had taken on hard problems that I didn’t know how to solve at first and figured them out myself, just as part of being a lonely nerd.

If you ask gpt to figure everything out for you (which I believe is currently possible in a typical undergrad program), you won’t even have that baseline of having learned to unstick yourself, which is the foundation.


Even in a functioning software shop with mentorship, training, etc, some people just have an extra get-hard-shit-done level.

I think two things are going on:

  • new graduates GPTd their way through college and didn’t actually learn anything
  • the exceptional ones can see they’re exceptional and go get one of the monster overpay jobs in AI



I was gonna get snooty about being an indie game buyer, then I remembered that I bought a Larian game developed in partnership with Hasbro, so my snootiness will have to wait for another day.