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MongooseStudios··on Ask HN: Should I Leave Software?
Seen the news recently? People have been discovering that the LLMs are snake oil lately. I think we are only starting to see how truly bad they are in reality. "AI takes all our jobs someday" almost certainly. It's not today, and I'm pretty sure LLMs aren't gonna get us there.

If you're tired of working for the kind of idiot that sees "AI will replace everyone in your company for cheap" and starts drooling I don't blame you. I'm pretty sick of the industry too.

But I don't think AI is a good reason to quit.

MongooseStudios··on I'm tired,Twitter is full of AI tools related discussion
Bad news, the AI bros are here in force too.
MongooseStudios··on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China's Controversial 996 Work Schedule
Local Mongoose is embracing not working for companies of any kind implementing 996 work schedule.
MongooseStudios··on Palmer Luckey considering entering laptop market with US-made model
I don't know about you guys, but that's not the brand I want to buy a computer from. Location of manufacture doesn't come in to it.
MongooseStudios··on 71% of tech leaders won't hire devs without AI skills
Can we get a list of the 29% that are looking for real skills? I have applications to send.
MongooseStudios··on Ask HN: Advice for Starting a Hacker Space?
No notes, just support for this rad idea. You can just do stuff!
MongooseStudios··on The Right Way to Embed an LLM in a Group Chat
Apples and oranges. But if they start sending me slop the outcome will be the same.
MongooseStudios··on The Right Way to Embed an LLM in a Group Chat
If my friends start adding LLMs to our group chats I'm gonna be in the market for some new friends.
MongooseStudios··on Ask HN: I give in, what are the resources for picking up AI-assisted coding?
Don't give in to the dark side! But if you must, there's actually stuff built in to JetBrains IDE's

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/ai-assistant/code-completion....

MongooseStudios··on Advice on how to get a job at Canonical
Oh, so your hiring process asking about my high school grades isn't just some weird out of touch remnant. You purposely choose the absurdity. Good to know, I'll continue my policy of not applying for your jobs.
MongooseStudios··on Ask HN: Are AI Copilots Eroding Our Programming Skills?
To provide a perspective on, and reasons for, not using them. Specifically surrounding concerns about quality, maintainability, and keeping your mind engaged in the process.
MongooseStudios··on Learn to love the moat of low status
A more feelings-ey take on the common "get comfortable being uncomfortable" type advice. I enjoyed the perspective shift.
MongooseStudios··on Ask HN: Are AI Copilots Eroding Our Programming Skills?
Yours is not the first post asking about this here. Which in and of itself says something.

I don't use them, at all. I briefly tried the local tab completion stuff offered in JetBrains products. It lasted an hour or two. The log messages it wrote didn't sound like me, and the "copilot pause" was immediately frustrating.

The boilerplate argument comes up a lot, but I really don't see it as the huge issue that would drive me to try and make Clippy generate it for me. That sort of "boring" work is great for "meditating" on the thing you're doing. Spending time adjacent to the problem putting up the scaffolding makes you mentally examine the places where things are going to interact and gives that little seed of an idea time to grow a bit. Become more robust.

Later, when there's an issue, you can ask the human that wrote something questions about it and they will probably have at least a fuzzy recollection of how it was built (and why it was done that way) that can offer ideas. Best you can do is hope the LLM doesn't hallucinate when you ask it about all the broken stuff.

Ultimately I see neither value nor "power" in the current "assistants." They generate the statistically most median output and often get it wrong. They make stuff up. They have no understanding of anything, and they don't learn from mistakes. If they were a person you'd be asking serious, but nearly rhetorical, questions about whether or not to fire them.

MongooseStudios··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)
SEEKING WORK

  Location: Texas
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Lately mostly Go(lang), but I've done a lot of different stuff including SRE/DevOps work.
  Résumé/CV: Resumes suck. Proof that I can code here: https://www.youtube.com/@Mongoose_Studio and here: https://www.twitch.tv/mongoosestudios
  Email: located on the about page (NOT the landing page) of https://mongoosestudios.github.io/
  Note: Crypto, AI, and Vibecoding shops need not apply
MongooseStudios··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)

  Location: Texas
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Lately mostly Go(lang), but I've done a lot of different stuff including SRE/DevOps work.
  Résumé/CV: Resumes suck. Proof that I can code here: https://www.youtube.com/@Mongoose_Studio and here: https://www.twitch.tv/mongoosestudios
  Email: located on the about page (NOT the landing page) of https://mongoosestudios.github.io/
  Note: Crypto, AI, and Vibecoding shops need not apply
MongooseStudios··on Do we need a new social media build on generative AI?
No
MongooseStudios··on Ask HN: What Are Your Hobbies?
I write code, paint miniatures, play video games, play TTRPGs, read.
MongooseStudios··on No network, no contacts, how to get small funds?
Well, I would tell me that the choices seem pretty clear. Either I have to learn to do the other half of the work, pay someone to do it, or find a co-founder that wants to do it. Each have their pros and cons.
MongooseStudios··on No network, no contacts, how to get small funds?
Pretend that I came to you and said: "I have been working on a marketing campaign and business plan for this app. I'm really passionate about it but I don't know how to code or how to build and distribute an app, and I don't really want to learn how to do it either. I'll have to get a new marketing job soon, but I'd really rather keep working on this business idea."

What would you tell me?

MongooseStudios··on Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry?
I've been in a union before. The benefits were bad, the pay was bad, after negotiations they were still bad. The union said "we tried." So I have trouble seeing them as the panacea that is marketed.
MongooseStudios··on Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry?
Do these jobs get posted in all the normal places, or is there somewhere else I should look?
MongooseStudios··on Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry?
I wish I had "do my own thing for a while" money. Sounds like you found a nice place to still do something useful but catch your breath. I'm hoping I can find something similar.
MongooseStudios··on Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry?
I've been thinking really hard about it. Just gotta pay the bills until I can find something that works.
MongooseStudios··on Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry?
I think we're going to see more of this. The general result of all the RIF/outsourcing seems to still be that the onshore employees workload increases and they burn out.

I'm genuinely glad that you said enough is enough. I hope you go make something rad and never need to go back to that world.

MongooseStudios··on Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry?
Yeah, it's currently full of AI shovelware because that's what the hype bubble demands, but there's a lot more good stuff here than not.

But they also have only had an account for an hour and clearly didn't read the whole post so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

MongooseStudios··on Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry?
I feel that right in my soul. The other side of the coin is they are currently destroying the talent pipeline by keeping smart motivated people out of roles where they could learn fast and grow. The myopic strategy(or lack thereof) is astonishing to me.
MongooseStudios··on Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry?
Yeah, I've heard about that 174 stuff too. Even if it was changed tomorrow and it was the actual reason for all the stagnation in hiring that some people say it is, I would expect it to take months for that impact to start showing up.
MongooseStudios··on Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry?
How strict is something like that on the demands for CAD and Electrical Design stuff? Because I've never done any of that. I'd be happy to learn it, but that doesn't seem to matter anymore.
MongooseStudios··on Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry?
I'm not terribly hard to find, but vibe checking all the Ask HN readers is about as much "talking about it" as I really want to do. I normally try to keep focused on the positive and use my time constructively. Happy to make a connection to do the latter though.
MongooseStudios··on Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry?
Saw that article a while back where even Glassdoor was admitting something like a third of their job posts were probably ghost jobs. I think that's hurting everyone though, all for the same reasons.
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